Matthew Walberg

Good Samaritans came to the aid of a 13-year-old girl and her 6-year-old nephew pinned under a car Tuesday at a Northwest Side intersection, lifting the vehicle off the seriously...

A 37-year-old woman died Monday afternoon in a fire in the South Side apartment building she owned. Simone Johnson-Wilson, of the 6800 block of South Calumet Avenue, was found "on...

Neighbors and community groups vented frustration at a meeting Thursday night over a proposed redesign of one of the Chicago Transit Authority's busiest rail stations, complaining their concerns about the...

A woman who jumped out of a blazing, five-story apartment building was among 26 people taken to area hospitals Friday after a West Rogers Park fire prompted a rare 5-11...

An 11-year-old boy was killed and two of his brothers were injured, one critically, in a fire Sunday at their Southwest Side home. Firefighters pulled the brothers out of a...

On Thursday, six days after her 17-year-old son disappeared, Terry Carrick passed out fliers with his photograph, hoping for one clue that would tell her what happened to her dependable,...

Christmas shoppers at a Kmart in south suburban Lansing were sent scurrying for cover Monday when a would-be robber snatched an armored car guard's bag of money and gun, then...

An alleged carjacking victim taken from a south suburban Wal-Mart parking lot was found unharmed in Detroit late Wednesday after police said she had been forced into the trunk of...

The snowiest autumn in more than a decade continued to pile on Monday, with a storm striking much of northeastern Illinois during daylight hours and concentrated lake effect flurries falling...

Several propane tanks on the roof of the historic downtown Carson Pirie Scott building exploded as roofers were pouring tar around midnight Monday. The explosions lit up the sky and...