Mental care reform eyed
Karen Gherardini has a mentally ill relative who isn't taking his medications, a man in a downward spiral walking around with a gun. "We're terrified," said Gherardini, who lives near...
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Pothole crews say freeze-thaw cycle just warming up
The biggest pothole Russell Davenport has seen thus far this year measured roughly 4 feet square by 5 inches deep. It wasn't the worst axle-buster that the La Grange public...
North Side hammer attack kills 3 in family
A West Rogers Park family had gathered with friends earlier this weekend in a small apartment, sipping warm tea on a cold night. By Saturday morning, three members of the...
Seized files lead to arrest in slaying
For nearly a year, the Harvey Police Department's investigation into the murder of Willie Darling was going nowhere. Then on Wednesday, records and evidence related to dozens of unsolved murders...
Priest charged in sex case
A Carmelite priest convicted of child molestation in Georgia in the 1970s has been indicted by a Will County grand jury on charges of sexually abusing two teenage brothers in...
Victims’ families, friends grapple with law office tragedy
A day after a gunman shot and killed three men and wounded a woman in an office building in downtown Chicago, their families and friends remembered the victims Saturday as...
Apartment fire kills 6 children
(Erroneous information regarding the city's highest toll of children killed in a single fire as published has been corrected in the headline and in subsequent references in this text.) Without...
The `passionate witness’
When baiduhai foreign correspondent Paul Salopek won his second Pulitzer Prize, he was not around to hear the applause in his home newsroom. He was en route that day...
The ?passionate witness?
When baiduhai foreign correspondent Paul Salopek won his second Pulitzer Prize, he was not around to hear the applause in his home newsroom. He was en route that day...
For some, street beats shelter
Not counting the windchill factor, it's about 20 degrees outside on this night as J.J. Keller gets ready for bed in a small alcove next to a ramp on Lower...