Marla Donato

Police were questioning a 28-year-old Hickory Hills man Wednesday night in connection with the stabbing and sexual assault of a 13-year-old Southwest Side girl who was rescued in a forest...

A Sauk Village teenager who died in a fire may have been a murder victim, police said Tuesday. But there were many more questions than answers surrounding the death of...

In the fall of 1990, nearly 11 years to the day of the assassination of Phoenix Mayor William Hawkins, two FBI agents met with a veteran federal prosecutor to discuss...

Paula Wolff, who a year ago lost a political battle for appointment as chancellor to the University of Illinois at Chicago, has found an academic home as the new president...

An explosion and fire at an East Chicago steel plant Friday killed two workers, injured 10 firefighters and sent dozens of other firefighters and elementary school children to the hospital,...

The Phoenix Fire Department doesn`t have a lot it can brag about. Its firetruck is 10 years old. It barely has enough gear to outfit six firefighters. Its all-volunteer crew...

A battle that has lasted more than a year to shut a controversial south suburban grass-composting site could reach a resolution this week, just in time for the mowing season....

When Chicago Heights Mayor Douglas Troiani was elected last April, he promised, among other things, an ethics ordinance to deal with corrupt city officials. At that time, five high-ranking city...

A supervisor at the Bedford Park postal facility was wounded Thursday by a co-worker, and a man was taken in for questioning a short time later at his home in...

Turf battles are breaking out in suburbia. Concerned that pesticides used in schools and on parks and playgrounds pose health threats to their children and themselves, irate homemakers across the...