Robert Becker

Nearly 16 years after police found the decomposed bodies of a north suburban waitress and a Glenview area man in a car trunk near Northfield, an imprisoned rapist was indicted...

Cicero dramatically expanded its campaign to rid the town of street gangs on Tuesday, filing a pair of lawsuits seeking to have hundreds of gang members declared public nuisances and...

The Illinois Appellate Court ruled Thursday that Rosemont cannot exempt customers from paying Cook County's controversial amusement tax, although patrons of the Rosemont Theatre and Rosemont Horizon won't be seeing...

A woman who served on the jury that this week awarded Rachel Barton nearly $30 million in damages failed to acknowledge during jury selection that she had a pending personal...

A Cook County judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by parents of two victims of the 1993 Brown's Chicken & Pasta slayings, dismissing their arguments that the fast-food chain...

Allegations of sexual harassment have stung an obscure North Shore unit of government--the Mosquito Abatement District. The accusations by two female employees against longtime trustee Edward Disch have apparently cost...

The Village of Schaumburg tried for seven years to close a controversial nightclub where police have responded to problems ranging from drug sales to a fatal shooting. On Wednesday, it...

Dozens of friends and relatives filed past the casket of Chicago Police Officer John C. Knight Tuesday, three days after the nine-year police veteran was shot at 99th Street and...

In what was regarded by many as a referendum on his support for a controversial new Cook County Hospital, Democratic incumbent County Board President John Stroger appeared to easily defeat...

With the videotape of a raucous going-away party at Cook County Hospital resurrected for air play, supporters of Republican Aurelia Pucinski hope the vivid scenes of carousing will set the...