Mary Owen

Order now to get your turkey by Thanksgiving. But not with a side of cranberries. More like to roam your backyard. Farm Sanctuary, a farm animal rescue organization in New...

Helen Osterman, a retired nurse who writes mystery novels in her Homer Glen home, said her afternoons are too frequently marred by the loud barking of her neighbor's three German...

For 28 years, Bette Kociolek believed that her 11-year-old son died in an accident when a car struck him as he rode his bike. But Wednesday, Cook County authorities said...

Until Friday's tragic events, Jennifer Hudson's life had been both a fairy tale and a classic Chicago story. Kids dream about a rise like hers -- from South Side kid...

The Englewood house in which actress-singer Jennifer Hudson grew up became a gathering place Saturday for mourners and those drawn to celebrity. A steady stream of neighbors and fans stopped...

When Chicago Police Officer Richard Francis got roughed up by a drunk a few weeks ago, injuring his back, his fellow officers told him to take it easy and ride...

Bears running back Cedric Benson -- already under team scrutiny for being charged with boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest in May -- found himself under the critical glare of...

Gun violence that swept through swaths of Chicago over the weekend pressed into midweek Wednesday when five people were found slain in a South Side home. The afternoon crackle of...

Bill Ayers long ago settled into a life of quiet respectability as a well-regarded professor of education and a much-published activist for better schools. With his Ivy League doctorate, 48-page...

A jury acquitted a former Maywood police officer accused of tipping off a gang leader about a police drug raid in 2005. Arian Wade, 36, was charged with criminal drug...