Michael Higgins

At colleges across the country, students are taking pills they've sneaked from home, tossing them into bowls and swallowing handfuls with a chug of beer or a sip of a...

A small single-engine airplane crashed Tuesday near Schaumburg Regional Airport, killing the pilot and briefly shutting down Metra service on nearby railroad tracks. The pilot, a male who was flying...

A building code reform discussed in the wake of the Lincoln Park porch collapse could make Chicago the first city in the nation to require weight limits to be posted...

Rosemont Mayor Donald Stephens said Wednesday the village had no plans to break its ties with Parkway Bank & Trust Co., despite revelations that a bank executive cut a secret...

The colors red, white and blue abounded at a rally Sunday afternoon in Arlington Heights as speakers urged a crowd of about 500 to support U.S. troops, while more than...

A Northwest Side couple who kept six of their seven children in a cold basement and hit them with a wooden paddle to keep them quiet have been arrested and...

An immense and meticulously researched paper trail ultimately was the most significant evidence that led jurors to convict former Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese in a multimillion-dollar insurance fraud after...

An Urbana attorney who pelted fellow lawyers with epithets like "punk" and "geekbreath" and suggested they stick their letters to him "in that bodily orifice into which no sun shines"...

The pastor of Golf Road Baptist Church in Des Plaines looked out his window Thursday morning and feared the worst. Four police cars, lights flashing, had blocked off the street,...