Teresa Wiltz

The mother of 12-year-old Joey Chlopek said she was planning to move out of the Brighton Park neighborhood, where she feared street gangs and drugs would claim her son. On...

Call it confidence. Chalk it up to Midwestern stoicism. Or perhaps Chicago sports fans have endured so many ignominious defeats and chokes over the years that the Bulls` loss Monday...

The arduous and tricky task of pumping millions of gallons of water from a flooded underground Loop tunnel system could begin as early as Monday, but officials reported a new...

At 1 a.m., two college freshmen in Downstate Illinois climb into a borrowed car and drive through a downpour into the night. Kim, a pale young woman with wide brown...

Judy Jacobs, a nurse at Planned Parenthood`s Midwest Medical Center, 1201 N. Clark St., prepares the recovery room for the day`s patients. It is a bright, open space with blue...

Ah, so this is spring. Blustering winds. Bone-chilling temperatures. Heavy coats. Boots. Snow plows. And yes, the snow. Lots and lots of it. On Saturday, the second full day of...

After recently blasting the Arlington Heights fire inspection system, Village Manager Kenneth Bonder says that conflict within the fire prevention bureau has subsided in the last three years. In the...

A 15-year-old Mt. Prospect youth was charged with reckless homicide Tuesday in the deaths of three teenage girls killed nearly three months ago in an auto crash in the northwest...

A Logan Square grandmother was charged with involuntary manslaughter after 4-year-old twins died in a fire while locked in a bathroom linen closet, which for two years served as a...

Four-year-old twins, who police said were routinely locked in a bathroom linen closet and left unattended for hours, died Wednesday after starting a fire in the closet with matches. Rafael...