Terry Wilson

The Chicago Police Department today said someone deliberately set the Englewood fire early this week that resulted in six deaths. According to a police news release, "The initial investigation revealed...

Elijah Crump heard the sound of gunshots Sunday evening only minutes after his children gathered outside for a visit with him in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood where they live...

About 45 Fenger High School students and staff members were treated and released from local hospitals Thursday after someone "pulled a prank" and discharged pepper spray or Mace tear gas...

Holding a red rose, a little something pretty to commemorate Mother's Day, Lisa Jones silently watched the proud parents and students of the Leo High School Class of 1999 as...

Chicago Police Supt. Terry Hillard on Tuesday awarded three of the department's highest honors posthumously to two officers who were killed in the line of duty. Earlier in the day,...

The Cook County Board today is expected to approve a measure providing medical and other benefits to same-sex couples where at least one of the members is a county employee....

Two buses rolled up to the blackened, twisted wreckage of the train Wednesday, headlamps shining as in any funeral procession. Dozens of people, family of those presumed dead, filed out,...

Freedom felt better and better as the day progressed for John Willis. Willis, a free man for the first time in more than eight years, left Stateville Correctional Center near...

As state legislators and the Illinois Supreme Court struggle to determine a course of action following the release of Anthony Porter--the 10th Death Row inmate to go free--Cook County State's...

Just like her cousin Ryan Harris, Dana Pate was 11. Like Ryan, Dana was the oldest of six, the protective big sister to a pack of little ones. Dana's mother,...