T. Shawn Taylor

A lieutenant for the secretary of state police was charged last week with driving under the influence of alcohol after his car collided with another vehicle at an intersection in...

A Monee man was killed and his wife injured early Monday when he lost control and crashed his 1999 Harley-Davidson motorcycle in East Hazel Crest, police said. David Jones, 36,...

In the wake of last week's fatal rampage by two students in Littleton, Colo., school and suburban officials in the Chicago area are taking actions-- from organizing community forums to...

The small, cluttered kitchen in Doretha Penn's North Lawndale home has been without cabinets for more than three decades, mostly because the improvement always has been beyond her financial means....

Incumbent mayors in three hotly contested south suburban races in Harvey, Chicago Heights and Country Club Hills all appeared to win re-election Tuesday night. But calls for a recount could...

Two buses rolled up to the blackened, twisted wreckage of the train Wednesday, headlamps shining as in any funeral procession. Dozens of people, family of those presumed dead, filed out,...

Inside the dining car of Amtrak's gleaming City of New Orleans train, 14-year-old Melissa Watson and five friends were deep into a game of spades and watching the movie "Simon...

Confusion that arose between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Cook County officials during the sale of a Chicago Heights public housing complex threatens to stymie badly...

Firefighters suspect that a fire in an attached garage early Tuesday that left one man dead was started by careless use of smoking materials, an Alsip fire official said. The...

The Cook County medical examiner's office is calling the death of a terminally ill man last week in a south suburban hospital a "euthanization" and has ruled his death a...