Robert Blau

When the Los Angeles and Detroit street gangs brought crack cocaine to this small city, they demonstrated the same flair for marketing and murder that has turned crack into the...

In seat 19-J, Chicago lawyer Ron May stashed his legal papers and opened up a comedy novel, ''Dirk Gently`s Holistic Detective Agency.'' Three rows ahead, the aircraft`s hum was lulling...

Dana Feitler, the Gold Coast woman who was robbed and shot in the head early Sunday, made some progress toward recovery Wednesday while police focused on a list of possible...

''for the last few days whole lots of things been going on like shoting, killing, dyeing, death. that happens every day, every week, any month. like they tried to kill...

One man was charged with first-degree murder and strong-arm robbery early Tuesday, and five other suspects were in custody in the weekend stabbing death of a Northwest Side man on...

Police are investigating a string of seven stabbings on the West Side that may have been carried out by the same pair of knife-wielding assailants, detectives said Wednesday. The stabbings,...

Two teenagers suspected of committing as many as 50 burglaries of North Side laundromats to pay for cocaine have been arrested, detectives said Wednesday. The suspects were identified as Kevin...

As police and stunned hospital officials looked on helplessly, a distraught gunman unplugged the life-support equipment attached to his comatose infant son Wednesday, then cradled the baby until he died,...