Matthew Walberg

Tuesday was one big headache for Isabella Seffinga, to hear her attorney tell it. Racked by a migraine, she threw up on a bar stool cushion in a South Loop...

A mother charged in the kidnapping of a young girl from a Northwest Side pharmacy was ordered held in lieu of $750,000 bail as both her attorney and authorities questioned...

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...

Although Chicago police have only one known suspect in the slayings of three relatives of actress Jennifer Hudson, some evidence suggests that more than one person may have been involved,...

Seconds after the gunfire stopped, Barbara Singleton heard someone say, "Oh, man, he hit the baby." It was her son, Robert Anderson, 4, another innocent victim of street violence on...

The judge's warning was met with silence in the packed courtroom at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building. "I will have it quiet in here," said Circuit Judge Dennis J....

Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart is pushing ahead with a plan to transform Bond Court in an effort to better screen pretrial detainees and reduce chronic overcrowding at County Jail....

Jacint Calderazzo was 30 minutes away from reconnecting with an old flame. Just down the street from Midway Airport, where the woman was to arrive, the 88-year-old widower guided his...

A Chicago man with previous convictions for drug offenses has been charged with first-degree murder after the death of his alleged partner in the attempted robbery of a Southwest Side...

When Richard J. Daley bought a vacation home in 1964 in Grand Beach, Mich., the seven-room, $41,000 house was supposed to allow the family to escape their responsibilities and celebrity...