Mother’s night of grief
As she got ready for her night shift at O'Hare Airport on Wednesday, Quince Jackson spoke soothingly to her children, telling them not to wait up for her. Her job...
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A tragic life spent running
James McGee, 14, a state ward in Oswego, lived for the moment, often choosing to party with friends instead of being home with his latest family. On one of the...
DCFS probes juvenile center
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is investigating an allegation of abuse at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, which is already under court supervision for past...
False alarm fire call has tragic turn
Firefighter William Grant's shift hadn't even officially started when the alarm rang Friday morning in the busy firehouse where he had worked for 20 years, the only one he had...
No signals in past of mom held in slaying
A woman accused of fatally beating her 5-year-old daughter had completed an intense 18-month probation program for retail theft without raising any red flags involving her children, court records show....
`There are secrets in the house. We don’t tell.’
As Melanie Beltran lay dying on the floor, her 5-year-old body covered in bruises, her mother ordered her six other children to clean up the house. The police were coming....
2 teens, 2 births, a family tragedy
Just one week before a 14-year-old Sauk Village girl is alleged to have suffocated her newborn daughter last month, child welfare officials had investigated her household on an unrelated complaint....
Mexico helping family after fire
Officials at the Mexican Consulate said Wednesday they are planning to fly the grandparents of five children killed in a Rogers Park apartment fire to Chicago for funeral services, scheduled...
Apartment fire kills 6 children
(Erroneous information regarding the city's highest toll of children killed in a single fire as published has been corrected in the headline and in subsequent references in this text.) Without...
`Taste’ mother had no support system
Marie Campbell pursed her lips and turned her eyes away from the camera in Bond Court on Monday as a judge read the charge against her: child endangerment. She stood...