Mary Ann Fergus

Longtime barber Bill Pate runs his electric clippers through Glenn Ritchey's hair with swift precision as customers talk about change and growth in the northwest suburbs. "All the fields I...

In the halls of Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, most students knew Vanessa Cruz, a 2005 graduate, as a good student, captain of the debate team and a violinist....

Caught stealing clothes and cash, a house cleaner brutally attacked a Lutheran minister and his daughter in their Buffalo Grove home, beating them with chairs, slashing their throats, then setting...

A 12-year-old girl was charged with attempted first-degree murder Monday in the stabbing of a classmate with a kitchen knife last week in a classroom at a Buffalo Grove junior...

In a barely audible voice, Dino Pavlis described Thursday how the dream of adopting two Russian children became a horror story, unfolding in his 900-square-foot Schaumburg apartment and ending with...

As news spread of the death of Pope John Paul II, people across the Chicago area talked with Tribune reporters about the man who held the papacy since 1978. On...