Melita M. Garza

The battle lines for April`s general election were drawn Tuesday in three northwest suburbs when voters went to the polls to narrow the field of candidates for the upcoming mayoral...

The U.S. Census Bureau reported this week that the Hispanic population in the northwest suburbs more than doubled in the 1980s, but those numbers are no surprise to the owners...

The Village of Rosemont was awarded $10 million in state funds Friday to expand its O`Hare Exposition Center, ensuring its future as the convention showplace of suburban Chicago. State officials...

The tornado hit Crest Hill from the northwest, slamming into three housing complexes and dumping its victims in cornfields. ''Most of the victims were blown from the buildings into the...

Robert Wadman, the controversial new police chief of Aurora, has filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against an Omaha television station for making ''slanderous and defamatory'' statements to a Chicago television...

The lights were dim, the car was parked, and Sherm and Gwen Baarstead were alone together on Valentine`s Day. Only trouble was, they were alone together in a long line...

One youth was killed and six other people were wounded in a series of incidents over the weekend that represented an ''escalating'' gang war in the West Side`s Little Village...