Robert Blau

Chicago police will be required to attend additional firearms training sessions as part of a program to improve their marksmanship, according to Police Supt. LeRoy Martin. Martin, during a taping...

The school intercom came alive at 9:08 a.m., a time when most of the students at James Shields Elementary School were busy reading about history and great adventures. In gentle...

A senior student was shot Thursday when a gun accidentally discharged as it was being passed among students in an art class in Martin Luther King High School, 4445 S....

The suburban Westchester retiree finally gave up trying to get her tax question answered by calling the IRS hot line. ''It`s terrible over the phone,'' she said as she waited...

When the White Sox decided to build a stadium in Addison, the residents said no. When Burger Kings and halfway houses and parking lots appeared destined for construction in other...

The campaign trail in the Chicago area Saturday was littered with balloons, buttons and custard pie. While most political events were limited to colorful showmanship and crafty rhetoric, that was...

Evidence gathered in a seven-month investigation of Glendale Heights Village President Jeri Sullivan by the Illinois attorney general`s office was turned over to a Du Page County grand jury Wednesday,...

Fearful residents of a sprawling Du Page County apartment complex where a young girl was found slain are taking steps to protect themselves, some even going so far as to...

The Cook County state`s attorney`s office has approved a murder charge against Monico Campos, 21, in the slaying of his wife, whom doctors had hoped to keep alive for an...

They hid beneath layers of socks and underwear. They dreamed of warmer places-Jamaica, Aruba, Florida-anywhere but here. And they psyched themselves with Zen-like concentration, as though preparing for an important...