Stephanie Banchero

A 39-year-old Bolingbrook man calmly surrendered to police officers Monday after keeping them at bay for more than seven hours during a tense standoff in front of his home that...

After spending eight years haggling over busing and voting practices with Crete-Monee school officials, African-Americans in University Park called Tuesday for the healing to begin. "We need to throw away...

Attorneys for African-American parents in University Park and the Crete-Monee School District have spent nearly a decade hashing out a compromise to a civil rights lawsuit that questioned, among other...

They are nothing more than two innocuous words silk-screened on the back of a shirt. But to 14-year-old Krystle Newquist they represent a hypocrisy she cannot stomach. Newquist has refused...

Fifty years ago, the Evanston Historical Society celebrated its 50th birthday with a formal tea for about 300 people. The event was in keeping with the demeanor of the typically...

A 36-year-old Tinley Park man has been charged with three counts of reckless homicide and one count of drunken driving in connection with a car accident that left three young...

They have been called lazy, listless slackers who care more about themselves than the world around them. They have been labeled unfocused, confused and uncommitted. And they have been tarnished...

The frantic search for an Elk Grove Village firefighter ended Sunday morning when Schaumburg police found the 33-year-old Hoffman Estates man dead in his car, apparently from a self-inflicted gun...

Drunken driving and speeding, not a pursuing police car, were the likely causes of a Thursday morning car accident that left three people dead and one critically injured in Orland...

Police are investigating an alleged hate crime after someone tossed newspaper clippings covered with hand-written racial slurs into the front yard of an African-American resident. It is the second time...