Robert Mitchum

For medical professionals who climb on board helicopters hundreds of times a year, the job can mean dark, urgent flights through uncertain landscapes, emergency landings in cow pastures and medical...

Joanne Smith normally uses the online auction site eBay to fish for bargains on used purses and shoes. But when Smith checked her e-mail Sept. 24, she found that an...

As flood waters receded across the Chicago region's hardest hit areas Tuesday, a frustration settled on those waiting to hear when they could go home. Others anxiously wondered whether they...

In Chicago, dozens of firefighters saluted silently at 7:46 a.m., the time when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. At Libertyville High School, students and local veterans stood...

Despite the CTA's budget woes and gloomy warnings of future fare hikes, Chicago seniors remained enthusiastic Monday about free rides on the city's buses and trains The directors of senior...

As the number of infants abducted by strangers declines, the location of the crime has steadily shifted from hospitals and maternity wards to homes and public places during the past...

Nearly 50 ministers on Monday embraced plans for students to boycott at least the first day of Chicago Public Schools classes, a move aimed at ramping up pressure on state...

Over four hours, about a half-year's worth of lightning bolts bombarded the Chicago area, electrifying the night sky as trees were split, transformers were zapped and houses were set ablaze....

Two days after 13-year-old Raphael Palomar was pulled under the water of Lake Michigan while swimming with his family off an Indiana beach, authorities Monday continued their somber search for...

In the turbulent Humboldt Park neighborhood, Sean Agosto, 16, kept a low profile, his family said, spending afternoons on his bike and listening to his iPod. Agosto went on such...