Ruth E. Igoe

The number of crimes reported in McHenry County increased slightly in 2000, according to state figures just released, continuing a decadelong rise that authorities say is inevitable with the population...

Fighting invasions on two fronts, agriculture officials in the city and suburbs set out their strategies Wednesday for battling two tree-killing insects: Asian longhorned beetles and gypsy moths. In Chicago,...

One day after Crystal Lake-area voters opted not to buy the Dole Mansion and its 12 lakeside acres, developers were calling the church that owns it while conservationists sifted through...

Voters appeared ready Tuesday to approve a $68.5 million plan that would raise McHenry County taxes in order to buy 7,000 acres of open land, but they balked at buying...

A Round Lake Beach man who allegedly peddled a powerful hallucinogen blamed for the deaths of three suburban residents pleaded guilty in McHenry County Court this week to selling one...

Chicago police are searching for the driver of a red Chrysler Sebring with Iowa tags that collided with a taxi in downtown Chicago at 5:20 a.m. Sunday, killing the driver...

An Oakwood Hills man stabbed his mother, a local restaurant owner, to death early Wednesday and attacked her male companion in a house the three shared, police said. Investigators say...

A 39-year-old unemployed handyman has been charged with murder in the November beating death of a businessman known in the neighborhood as "the Mayor of Milwaukee Avenue," police said Saturday....

Deep snow and a long spell of cold weather have transformed rooflines into ice sculptures, causing headaches for homeowners who find that all that ice outside is somehow the cause...

The snowstorm that whacked the Chicago area this week was unusual in many ways, except one--it took the typical, heavy toll in the number of people who died of heart...