Matthew Walberg

A Frankfort couple up for sentencing Friday on drug and child-endangerment charges instead saw their bails revoked and were sent to jail after a Will County judge found the husband...

Chicago Transit Authority foreman Elios Gil was losing sleep at night worrying about the almost 18 miles of dilapidated track assigned to his inspectors and repair crew. His track gang,...

A car crash that killed two men early Saturday in rural Kane County was almost followed by another accident when a rescue helicopter with mechanical problems plunged from the air...

For more than 36 hours, rescue workers combed the banks and tangled logjams of the Kankakee River, searching for Hannah Klamecki and her grandfather, missing since Wednesday evening. When they...

A Cook County judge ordered a Calumet City man held without bail Saturday morning on charges he murdered his girlfriend's 4-year-son, saying the beating death indicated the man had a...

While his parents served in the U.S. military safeguarding Iraq, 4-year-old Cameron Smith was cooped up in a modest apartment in Calumet City, slowly being beaten to death, police said...

As a teenager, Mark Basso loved everything about his parents' country club in Elmhurst -- except the golf. He enjoyed the ambience of the club, but he was truly passionate...

Maybe Harvey should have sold the shuttered Dixie Square Mall to Jake and Elwood. After all, the classic "Blues Brothers" police chase there may have done as much as anything...

Nearly four years after Rev. James Radek received his first post as a parish pastor, he abruptly resigned as the spiritual leader of St. Joseph Church in Joliet. Radek cryptically...

Rachel McFadden and Zachary Trayes-Gibson were walking down a South Side street Friday night when they heard a woman scream. They had no idea that the cry for help belonged...