Robert Blau

Jesse Jackson said Wednesday that he was seeking 1,000 off-duty police officers and 1,000 citizens to volunteer three hours a week to patrol Chicago`s streets, trains and schools without pay....

Firefighters summoned to a fatal blaze in a Chicago Housing Authority building were hampered by slow elevators, water lines that didn`t work and other factors that make firefighting in CHA...

Police Supt. LeRoy Martin said Thursday that he plans to ask U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur to amend his order limiting the number of inmates at Cook County Jail to...

Eugene ''Bull'' Hairston, one of the original ''Main 21'' leaders of the Black P Stone Nation street gang, which later became known as El Rukn, was killed in an apparent...

The city agency created to steer youngsters away from street gang violence should be abolished and its $5 million budget spent on putting more police officers into neighborhoods plagued by...

Two West Side men were charged Tuesday with the holdup of an international currency exchange firm in the Loop as authorities continued to investigate the circumstances of the police shooting...

Two West Side men were charged Tuesday with the holdup of an international currency exchange in the Loop as authorities continued to investigate the circumstances of the police shootings that...

Two women and three children were found dead early Wednesday in a burning Southwest Side bungalow, and police said all five appeared to have been slain. ''It appears all five...

A member of a specially trained Chicago police unit was shot in the head and critically wounded Thursday by a former police officer who had barricaded himself in his home...

The destruction at 1532 S. Lawndale Ave. was swift and complete. Within minutes, a fire early Tuesday swept through the brick structure, claiming seven lives, three of them children. By...