Susan Kuczka

Residents of sprawling suburbia are more likely to be overweight and have high blood pressure than people living in compact cities, according to a study released Thursday. With the nation...

Two people were killed and five were injured Wednesday when a semitrailer truck rear-ended their mini-van on the Eisenhower Expressway as they carpooled from Chicago to their jobs with a...

A Mundelein woman accused of persuading a teenager to try to kill her ex-husband and his wife allegedly struck the couple herself with a 2-pound sledgehammer as they slept, a...

The morning a Lincolnshire couple were bludgeoned with a hammer in their bedroom, everything seemed routine in the home of the high school student who has been charged in the...

Prosecutors filed misdemeanor battery charges Friday against 15 Glenbrook North High School seniors who police say took bullying to a criminal level, beating juniors and pelting them with filth in...

Palos Heights is looking to sell naming rights to its nature preserve. Schaumburg, the retail jewel of the northwest suburbs, increased its sales tax to offset a rare deficit. Even...

The Chicago Public Schools system is working with Rev. Jesse Jackson to establish a scholarship fund for the children who lost a parent in the E2 nightclub disaster, schools chief...

Democrats may have won most of the major state offices in Illinois, but their success at the top of the ticket seems not to have trickled down to the local...

Rev. Nathaniel Edmond is praying for the best but preparing for the worst. The 51-year-old pastor at the Second Baptist Church in Elgin has cut back on his spending, shaken...

As federal health authorities urged stepped-up mosquito spraying Monday to fight the spread of the West Nile virus, area officials worried that a ban on spraying in forest preserves is...