Tom Pelton

A grand jury conducting a criminal investigation into a $3.8 million land deal by the Illinois Toll Highway Authority on Wednesday will vote on whether to indict suspects in the...

Police on Wednesday released a composite sketch based on a woman's description of a man she says abducted her from a store Sunday night, held her captive until Tuesday and...

A judge on Wednesday sentenced a 20-year-old man to 21 days in jail and placed him on probation for 30 months for branding the chests of teenage boys with a...

A judge said Wednesday that a 45-year-old accused of killing his parents must remain in a locked mental hospital temporarily because he can't find a group home willing to accept...

It seems as paradoxical as it is cruel: Despite four separate convictions, no one stands convicted of the 1983 murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico. On Monday, an Illinois appellate court...

A 23-year-old Chicago man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for robbing the home of a Wood Dale man after tying him in a chair with coat-hanger wire...

All kinds of horrors crept in with the fog that blanketed the Midwest on Wednesday: Airports were crippled with delays, interstate highways were clogged with traffic and the well-coiffed suffered...

Chicago-area abortion clinics that have been the target of protests were operating as usual Friday afternoon, with no apparent signs of beefed-up security. A Planned Parenthood clinic at 1201 N....

Prosecutors in DuPage County hope to conclude next week a criminal investigation into a $3.8 million land deal by the Illinois Toll Highway Authority, according to interviews and court records...

A 49-year-old Warrenville man awaiting trial on charges of child pornography and sexual abuse has been indicted on additional charges that he videotaped and photographed naked children. Lawrence G. Kepley,...