Ray Gibson

Chicago's morning commute turned nightmarish once again Wednesday when a semitrailer overturned on the Dan Ryan Expressway, dumping a toxic chemical onto the hot pavement and releasing clouds of vapor...

For all her self-assured defiance, Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese owes much of what she has today to her late husband--and that may include her indictment on federal charges of...

In a political season dripping with superlatives, the soiree at the Hotel Allegro and Cadillac Palace Theatre on Randolph one breezy evening last month was dubbed the Democratic Party's Biggest...

Nicor Gas told state authorities it discovered spilled mercury at four industrial sites in two Chicago suburbs, but the source of the toxic metal was a different device than the...

Ever since he left Washington eight years ago, Dick Cheney has made it sound like he was well rid of the place. Just last week the GOP vice presidential nominee...

Chicago police have recovered a small leather diary that had been pirated from the Museum of Science and Industry's exhibit of artifacts raised from the wreck of the Titanic, saying...

As Lee Anglin, publisher of a suburban newspaper chain, walked out the front door of his office building in Homewood last week, he said a man he recognized asked him...

A Cook County judge on Friday delayed ruling on a motion to toss out a suit that seeks reinstatement of a state health official who says she was removed from...

A lawyer appointed to root out corruption in one of the nation's most powerful unions said Friday that a member of the controversial Duff family cheated the labor organization out...

Gov. George Ryan's wife has no recollection of being handed a letter in early 1998 by the mother of a whistleblower in the Illinois Secretary of State's office that purportedly...