Raoul V. Mowatt

While reports of major crime in Illinois declined in 1999--for the fifth consecutive year-- recorded crime in McHenry County increased by more than 11 percent from 1998. The statewide downturn...

For the fifth consecutive year, reports of major crime in Illinois declined in 1999, with the crime rate in DuPage County dropping by nearly 10 percent. The downturn comes on...

For the fifth consecutive year, reports of major crime in Illinois declined in 1999, with the crime rate in Lake County dropping 4.5 percent. The downturn comes on the heels...

A Near North Side neighborhood group on Saturday unveiled a plan to spare three historical buildings threatened by the construction of a 16-story luxury residential complex. The Washington Square Association...

For Jose Jorge, Elian Gonzalez's predawn removal from his Miami relatives' home brought back terrifying memories of a night in the early 1960s when Cuban authorities stormed his family's Havana...

Construction of a controversial state office building in Uptown to serve the poor was called off Tuesday after state officials said they had found technical violations and irregularities in the...

Natalie Diffenbaugh and her friends went to the Esquire Theater in downtown Chicago on Saturday afternoon to catch a Christmas screening of "The Talented Mr. Ripley." But the show was...

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan insists that since he lay minutes from death earlier this year he has become a changed man, purified in his heart and newly determined...

A bank heist gone awry became a 2 1/2-hour standoff with police on the Northwest Side Monday night, as the would-be robber grabbed a customer and held him hostage before...

Disciplinary hearings for a former cardiologist who injected a dying patient with a drug that may have killed him concluded Thursday with the state's attorney's office recommending that the doctor's...