Sean D. Hamill

Despite a slight drop in the number of homicides in 2002, Chicago's murder rate has again far outdistanced that of New York City and Los Angeles, the nation's two largest...

The body of a 3-year-old boy, who was abducted with his sister three weeks ago by their father, was found Sunday floating in a Will County marina on the Des...

Cook County voters rejected at least a dozen school tax increases Tuesday, despite warnings of dire financial problems ahead. Amid the widespread fiscal caution, there was one notable exception: Voters...

Four people--all burned too severely to be identified--died in an early-morning fire Sunday that destroyed a home in Schaumburg, authorities said. A 14-year-old girl led her two brothers, ages 4...

The controversial issue of abortion took center stage in the Illinois attorney general's race Sunday as Democrat Lisa Madigan accused Republican Joe Birkett of "exploiting breast cancer for political purposes"...

Police Tuesday were looking for a man who prosecutors said beat his neighbor to death with a baseball bat after a dispute Saturday night in Waukegan. A warrant was issued...

Four of seven suspects charged in the vigilante killings of two Chicago men were ordered held without bail Sunday as a prosecutor described how one attacker allegedly stomped and kicked...

Tougher economic times in some Lake County communities in 2001 may help explain an unusual increase in murders and domestic crime, even as reports of crime statewide declined for the...

Cardinal Francis George on Sunday announced the removal of eight Roman Catholic priests, including three parish priests whose flocks were never told of child sex abuse claims made against them...

His ministry threatened by the new, rigid sex abuse policy adopted by U.S. bishops at their conference last week, Rev. John Calicott on Sunday pledged to appeal to Rome if...