Steve Schmadeke

First came Pull My Finger Fred and his copyright-infringing doppelgangers Fartman and Pull-My-Finger Santa, flatulent dolls all. Next came Billy Bob Teeth, the snaggle-toothed overdentures developed by a downstate entrepreneur...

Inside the spartan federal prison cell where a brother of "The Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan was being held, officials allegedly found tools for a Batman-like escape: 31 feet of...

A property tax Will County has collected for more than a decade to help pay for its juvenile detention center is "illegal" because the county never got approval from voters,...

In a neighborhood full of families, it was the children who apparently first noticed someone new had moved into the rented yellow-vinyl house on Joliet's far west side. They told...

In the chilled interior of this 76,000-square-foot clubhouse, visitors who trod the plush carpets, admire the bottles of Dom Perignon displayed at the cherry-wood bar or dry their hands with...

They came in droves, generations of families pushing their relatives in wheelchairs, holding them and helping them walk, all while clutching faded obituaries, death certificates and other documents. Pamela Brown...

Five employees of the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip were taken into custody Wednesday after authorities learned numerous bodies had been dug up and the grave sites were illegally...

A Garfield Park teenager killed when the stolen Jeep he was riding in crashed and caught fire just yards from his home was a good kid who made a bad...

A Joliet husband and wife died when an Amtrak train slammed into their car Thursday afternoon at a railroad grade crossing in southwest suburban Romeoville, officials said. The Amtrak Texas...

Hundreds of people are expected this week to raise their right hands, "take the Superman stance" and pledge themselves to "truth, justice and the American way," becoming the first honorary...