Ryan Haggerty

State Rep. Derrick Smith sat in a trusted campaign worker's car Saturday afternoon, watching as the worker counted out $7,000 in $100 bills before handing over the cash, according to...

A 75-year-old woman who was mugged as she left a Polish market on the Northwest Side Thursday called the bicyclist who tackled the suspect and retrieved her purse a hero....

The hundreds of people clutching American flags and huddling against a chilly breeze Friday morning outside Brother Rice High School on Chicago's Southwest Side fell silent as the silver hearse...

He became the "Lipstick Killer" after scrawling a message in lipstick at a crime scene: "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more." After three brutal murders that terrified...

— Using a chain saw to cut through trees that had landed on top of houses in his hometown, Jonathan Wright looked at the wreckage wrought by this week's tornado,...

A teen charged with killing a fellow student at a Far South Side school this week had been bullied and was struck by the victim before the fatal stabbing, the...