Teresa Puente

A woman died Thursday of injuries she suffered in a car accident in unincorporated Will County this week. Judith Shepherd, 45, of Peotone was injured in a single-car accident about...

Roger P. McAuliffe, an assistant majority leader of the Illinois House, was reported missing and presumed dead after a boating mishap near his vacation home in northern Wisconsin, officials said...

A Bolingbrook quarry operator's plans to step up operations is expected to be blasted by nearby residents at public hearings Thursday being held at Bolingbrook High School. The residents object...

Ending a frantic, weeklong search, police on Sunday recovered the truck sought in connection with the hit-and-run accident that killed three girls in Crete Township. Chicago police said they turned...

Few bills under consideration by the General Assembly have upset more people this spring than an obscure measure dealing with horses. In the grand scheme, it means very little to...

At least three people were killed and nine others injured when a blast tore through a northwest Indiana steel mill early Wednesday morning. Employees of Beta Steel Corp. at Burns...

Forty years ago, if a student did miserably in school, he flunked. In recent decades, however, a gentler notion called social promotion emerged in which a student was promoted for...

An Oak Lawn woman died late Saturday after she was struck by a car Friday, police said. Sofia Kupinsky, 63, was crossing Cicero Avenue at 107th Street Friday afternoon when...

A 78-year-old local woman died Saturday afternoon after being struck by a mini-van while crossing Cicero Avenue near 105th Street, police said Sunday. Lolita Burton died at Christ Hospital in...

Police in Joliet said a woman found dead in her apartment Friday was the apparent victim of a murder-suicide. Lashonda Williams, 23, was shot multiple times in her apartment in...