Tara Malone

Once a relatively obscure slice of the real estate business, foreclosed homes that are now in the possession of lenders loom much larger as the economy flattens and housing sales...

Ashley Jackson chatted and laughed with Chavez Clarke during English class at Simeon Career Academy on Saturday afternoon. Minutes later, she was terrified to see her 18-year-old classmate gunned down...

There had been several fights at Crane Tech High School the day Ruben Ivy was killed, allegedly by another student. And though there's no indication Ivy, 18, was part of...

More than 100 family members and friends attended Ari Squire's memorial banquet last week and signed his online condolence book, mourning a man they said was kind, selfless and gentle....

Police omitted one salient fact in their public statements following a shooting Saturday that killed five women at a Tinley Park clothing store: There was a sixth woman shot, and...

Eugene Sawyer, an accidental mayor who bridged the gap between the Council Wars of Harold Washington's tenure and Richard M. Daley's decades-long political reign, died late Saturday night. He was...

The roof leaked and it was downright cold Monday in a South Side church where last week thieves made off with everything from the space heaters to spare toilet paper...

A West Chicago man on his way to visit his ailing mother in Mexico was one of three people killed when a Chicago-to-Dallas passenger bus crossed the median and was...

Two Chicago police officers were taken to a hospital Sunday afternoon after a man trying to steal a construction truck from a vacant lot on the city's North Side rammed...

Sorry ladies, Chicago's ranking crime fighter is off the market. Less than two years after making People magazine's list of the sexiest men alive, it was revealed Thursday that U.S....