Ray Gibson

A 31-year-old reputed street gang member was slain Saturday in a hail of gunfire in a West Side public housing project, according to Chicago police. Police believe that at least...

Cook County Sheriff James O`Grady began his expected shake-up of the sheriff`s office Wednesday by replacing the county`s corrections chief and the chief deputy in charge of court services while...

Florida investigators, bent on building a murder case against FBI informant Michael Raymond, are struggling to find witnesses who might attest that the point man in a major investigation of...

In the spring of 1985, Herman Rollfink, the owner of two pesticide companies in Germantown, Wis., looked up from his desk and saw a prospective business partner. Robert Caldwell, glib,...

A Du Page County Jail inmate was charged Wednesday with solicitation to commit murder for allegedly hiring an undercover state agent to murder his estranged wife and two others through...

A family and a city welcomed home Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco on Saturday in a joyous public celebration that included moments of remarkable intimacy. They offered him tears, balloons, banners...

A predominantly black group gave up its attempt to hold a rally and a picnic Saturday in Marquette Park on the Southwest Side after being taunted and threatened by thousands...

A Bulgarian ''drifter,'' who allegedly held a woman hostage with a knife aboard a jetliner at O`Hare International Airport, is believed by authorities to have carried the knife in a...

John E. LaTourette, an administrator at Northern Illinois University for seven years, was named NIU president Thursday to succeed Clyde Wingfield, who resigned rather than be fired by the state...

Northern Illinois University`s president, who accused the student newspaper of publishing distorted articles on remodeling costs at the president`s state-owned home, has removed the newspaper`s advisor claiming he mismanaged the...