Terry Wilson

For the second time in less than two weeks, state officials on Thursday took custody of a large number of children, after finding 12 children in the care of a...

A Southwest Side man who claims he was trying to burp his girlfriend's 4-month-old son when he allegedly administered blows that killed the infant was released on a personal recognizance...

In the first shakeup of the troubled Cook County Juvenile Court system since the death of 3-year-old Joseph Wallace, four judges have been transferred to other courts where they will...

The boy had to be a grownup for his mother. His father was an apparition, appearing once in a while on Sundays. In the family's first-floor apartment in a rundown...

A scared-looking 10-year-old boy wept uncontrollably Monday in juvenile court as prosecutors recounted how he allegedly kicked a 23-month-old girl to death on Christmas Eve. The boy, who has been...

A southwest suburban man was acquitted Monday of rape charges in an alleged attack on a severely mentally retarded woman in a nursing home. The alleged attack went unnoticed until...

In April, an investigator for the state's child-welfare agency visited the South Side home of 5-year-old Clifford Triplett after receiving a phone call alleging that one of the boy's siblings...

As a child, Jacqueline Montanez said she wanted to be a police officer. She admired their confidence, their cars and their zeal to bust criminals. But she veered from that...

A psychologist testified Tuesday for defense attorneys that a Mt. Prospect man was suffering from manic depression and reactive depression and was unable to control his behavior when he allegedly...

Stores drew iron bars across their windows, mothers tried to keep their children indoors, and police braced for the unknown. Then the bullets started flying. Nineteen people were shot, two...