Ofelia Casillas

A caravan of Illinois politicians barnstormed across the state Saturday in a last-ditch bid for votes, plugging their candidacies at events ranging from St. Patrick's Day parades and city bingo...

A caravan of Illinois politicians barnstormed across the state Saturday in a last-ditch bid for votes, plugging their candidacies at events ranging from St. Patrick's Day parades and city bingo...

State Sen. Barack Obama claims the mantle of a reformer, but early last month the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate spent $17,191 in state taxpayer money on a mailer that had...

A 15-year-old resident of Maryville Academy's Des Plaines campus has been charged with criminal sexual abuse related to an off-campus assault on a female classmate last week, Mt. Prospect police...

Squeezed into fishnet stockings, stiletto boots and a fire-engine red corset, Scott Alan Jones unexpectedly shared the spotlight Tuesday night with a group of TVs and a baseball team. At...

After a year of investigations and scandalous headlines, the other shoe finally dropped last week for entrepreneur and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart. Stewart, 61, was indicted on nine criminal counts...

A bill to ban a class of certain late-term abortions passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, escalating a moral debate and sharpening disagreement about what types of abortion...

Bruises found on a dead Romeoville 4-year-old ward of the state were inconsistent with a medical condition he suffered from and were also not the result of his falling down...

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has searched four years for Shalis Gama, a mother who fled with her son to prevent the state from taking the boy...

An 11-year-old foster boy who vanished last summer and whose skeletal remains recently were found in an eastern Illinois cornfield should not have been in the custody of his grandmother...