Robert Blau

Last year, 294,974 major crimes were committed in Chicago, an increase of 6 percent over the previous year. That works out to nearly 1 major crime for every 10 people....

Kenneth Cullen, the Chicago police officer accused of killing a 22-year-old man in 1984, was released from Cook County Jail after posting $5,000 bond, jail officials said on Thursday. Cullen`s...

On Thursday, inmates on the second and third floors of the Cook County Jail tried to find a large card on which to write their regrets. Johnnie Gilyard, a lieutenant...

The 35-year-old woman lay face down on the apartment floor pretending to be dead. A friend had been killed before her eyes and a shotgun blast had just missed her...

Two youths were accidentally shot and wounded in separate incidents at two Chicago high schools Friday, according to police and school officials. The shootings, which occurred about an hour apart,...

Eleven people, including two paramedics, were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning on Thursday after a malfunctioning heating system sent fumes into a busy Loop restaurant and several floors of an...

Law enforcement officials said Tuesday that their massive raid on El Rukn headquarters was part of an ongoing effort to disrupt the gang`s attempts to regroup from the setbacks of...

The growing popularity of electronic pagers in school classrooms has led the Chicago City Council to consider a ban on the devices, which some aldermen say are being used as...

A 1-year-old child died and four other people, including the toddler`s pregnant mother and older brother, were injured Tuesday when a kitchen fire swept the top floor of their Near...

Chicago police and federal agents, searching for weapons and narcotics, used axes, acetylene torches and shovels Monday to dismantle part of the interior of the ''El Rukn Grand Major Mosque,''...