Terry Wilson

Glencoe police considered Laurie Wasserman Dann dangerous enough that they asked her parents to turn over her .357 Magnum handgun to them two years ago, the village`s top police official...

Before she began her bloody shooting spree at a Winnetka grammar school, Laurie Dann tried to deliver death up and down the North Shore in the form of tainted food...

A Palatine woman, accused of choking and holding her 2 1/2-year-old daughter underwater, told an assistant state`s attorney who questioned her the day of her daughter`s death that she knew...

Polk Bros. officials vowed Tuesday to continue filling customer orders despite a fire that destroyed its giant store, warehouse and distribution center in suburban Melrose Park. Michael Crane, a vice...

An extra-alarm fire raged through the Polk Bros. store and warehouse in Melrose Park Monday evening, forcing the evacuation of several neighboring businesses. No injuries were reported in the blaze,...

Children from the middle-class Dearborn Park and Printers Row neighborhoods will have preferred enrollment in the new South Loop Elementary School under a plan narrowly approved Wednesday by the Chicago...

Rev. Thomas O`Gorman said he has a few good ideas about where the proposed stadium for the Chicago Bears should go. The railroad tracks near the Chicago River between Roosevelt...

A West Side community group, after a week of hearings on a proposed stadium for the Chicago Bears, issued a report seeking more information on the project rather than taking...

A crowd of 2,000 young people, including many gang members from all over the city, turned into an unruly gathering Sunday night in the Loop. Police arrested 31 after calling...

The Chicago City Council elected Tuesday will offer re-elected Mayor Harold Washington a new challenge to define who`s on his side and who`s not, although with the defeat of two...