Michael Martinez

Two videotapes showing Jada "Jay" Saenz's alleged sexual assaults of minors in Illinois and Michigan were turned over by prosecutors to his attorney in court Thursday. Assistant Cook County State's...

After years of tax increases that some homeowners thought were downright offensive, many local governments in Cook County are playing defense. With the possibility of a property-tax cap on the...

Police are investigating whether the arrest this week of a woman on prostitution charges at a tanning salon is related to similar cases of women acting as prostitutes in suburban...

After five years of planning, the Hampshire Village Board has annexed a 3.5-mile strip of farmland that connects the community with a lucrative Northwest Tollway interchange. "I look upon it...

Window washer Joaquin Hernandez, 33, of Chicago was left dangling from the top of a 9-story office building in Rosemont Thursday after the main line on his harness broke free....

Megan Soucie, the 12-year-old Bartlett girl who was fatally struck by lightning Monday, suffered the electrical injury on her right foot, according to an autopsy performed Wednesday at the Cook...

There were floods in the Midwest last year. Honest. You wouldn't know it, however, from the uproar over the absence of downpours this spring. From Riverdale to Round Lake, lawn...

After an earlier failure, a local citizens' group said it has collected enough petition signatures to put on the November ballot a referendum proposal on expanding gambling. Phil Crusius of...

Nghia Xuan Nguyen, the armless Vietnamese boy who was flown to Chicago a month ago on a medical mission of mercy, never had a birthday party because his mother, who...

Whatever you do, do not look directly at people who are looking at an eclipse. They are apt to be doing faintly embarrassing things, like peering into shoeboxes and giving...