Peter Kendall

For a time Monday, scores of new rivers snaked across the Chicago region, among them great waterways called the Dan Ryan, the Stevenson and the Skyway. Spring storms had turned...

The Illinois Gaming Board on Monday approved a proposal by the company that owns Aurora's casino riverboats to sell shares of the company to the public. The 5-0 vote reversed...

For wetting her bed and talking back, 4-year-old Samantha Jo Haight received the beating of her life, police say. The girl died Wednesday morning, about 24 hours after she was...

Investigators testifying Tuesday at the coroner's inquest into the November death of a West Chicago infant said his father has told differing stories about how the child suffered the fatal...

The cat with the matted fur mewed at his captor, a 22-year-old vegetarian in a leather jacket showing an ominous (for the cat, at least) gold star. And the captor...

Before he boarded train No. 12, bound for Chicago, 10-year-old Eric Logan Hoffhines implored his mother not to send him alone. "It was only his second time on the train...

During the 48 hours Palatine police held Martin Blake, they never called him a suspect in the Brown's Chicken & Pasta murders. For two days, Blake existed in an investigative...

Ken Japlon remembers well sitting in the Lombard police station as a boy, answering detectives' questions about a weekend he had spent at the cabin of his effervescent parish priest,...

The mysterious greenish substance suspected of falling from an airplane onto widespread areas of Du Page County last week contained fecal matter, county health department officials said Monday. Last week...

The second time around proved to be a winner for two high-profile tax-boosting referendums in Du Page County, one that will provide money for the Forest Preserve District to buy...