Rick Jervis

Prosecutors on Friday charged a Robbins man with strangling his wife during a domestic dispute. Curtis Leach, 30, of the 13900 block of South Grace Avenue, is charged with first-degree...

Three bodies that were found washed up on the Lake Michigan shoreline over the weekend were identified as a Chicago father and his two young sons who vanished last month,...

The parishioners of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Joliet sensed something was amiss when proceeds from their weekly spaghetti dinners seemed to shrink around the same time their priest bought...

The crowded field of U.S. Senate candidates spent the final Sunday of the primary campaign using everything from church pulpits to parade routes to e-mails to a hymn-howling dog as...

Two days after a Riverdale police officer was killed with his own pistol, questions continued to roil over how the leniency afforded a suspect led to the detective's murder. As...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Monday that a new state commission will document the gap between the "haves and the have-nots" in Illinois "so we can measure what we need to...

Military vaccinations may have played a role in the death of a Chicago-area Army reservist, prompting the Pentagon to evaluate its practice of inoculating troops against several diseases at once,...

Chicago Department of Health officials concerned about the spread of bacterial meningitis on Sunday began offering vaccinations to gay and bisexual men on the city's North Side after a deadly...

Victoria Moryn was a survivor. Originally from Poland, she survived the German invasion of her country and four years in a displaced persons camp before immigrating to the U.S. She...