Mickey Ciokajlo

Michael Reichart hasn't seen his daughter Alese in nine years, since she was a chubby-cheeked 5-year-old with long, blond hair. On Thursday, Reichart sat in his Arlington Heights home watching...

Just as some homeowners are getting heating bills that are double what they were a year ago, wholesale prices for natural gas hit record highs Wednesday, signaling that costs might...

Master Trooper Rodney Means picked up a motorist stranded along an interstate highway near Gary Wednesday afternoon and drove him to a store where the man bought coolant for his...

A group of parents protested in front of their children's elementary school on Chicago's Northwest Side Wednesday, demanding smaller class sizes and a new roof to stop the leaks they...

A half-dozen strong, they had been friends for years, some of them growing up together in Chicago's Vietnamese community on the city's North Side. They would hang out whenever they...

Six men riding in a sport-utility vehicle were killed early Monday in a fiery crash on the Kennedy Expressway. State police identified two of the occupants Monday night as Tu...

A day after United and its pilots reached a tentative contract after nearly a two-year dispute, operations at O'Hare International Airport and throughout the carrier's system had improved dramatically, though...

Up to 150 children from Robert Taylor Homes usually crowd into neighboring Berean Baptist Church for Vacation Bible School for one week every summer. But last week was different. Attendance...

For the sixth time in two months, police Tuesday discovered the decomposed body of a woman in an abandoned building in the Greater Roseland community on Chicago's South Side, heightening...

A veteran off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed a 17-year-old boy who attempted to steal her car at gunpoint at 3 a.m. Sunday on the South Side, said police...