Tom Pelton

A 26-year-old Chicago man who was shot six times on a remote roadway remained in critical but stable condition at Edward Hospital on Wednesday. Investigators said they did not have...

About 100 anti-abortion protesters waved signs reading "Abortion Kills Children" at a busy Westmont intersection near an abortion clinic Sunday. The hourlong rally at Ogden and Cass Avenues was organized...

The controversial president of Lithuania visited Lemont on Sunday to give medals to two former Lithuanian independence fighters who were imprisoned by the Nazis. Algirdas Brazauskas, a longtime Lithuanian Communist...

Drink any glass of tap water and you may gulp them down: cigar-shaped creatures five-thousandths of a millimeter long with a fuzzy pelt of flagella. They're called Legionella bacteria, and...

The work of controllers in a key air traffic center in Aurora is deemed so important that the sprawling complex is constructed to survive a nuclear attack. To ensure that...

Police on Sunday said they were preparing charges against a Chicago man who led officers on a chase through the western suburbs before crashing into a car driven by a...

A 27-year-old Aurora woman remained in critical condition Sunday at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood after being shot in the neck at her home Saturday. Police believe Kimberly Kay Norton,...

A 35-year-old Minnesota man is fighting extradition to Illinois to stand trial for abducting his 5-year-old daughter from Naperville, authorities said. That means Illinois prosecutors must ask Gov. Jim Edgar...

A 23-year-old Aurora man was shot in the stomach during a fight outside a bar Saturday, police said. Daniel Kouvavas, 23, was taken to Copley Memorial Hospital in Aurora, where...

More than 60,000 people attended the Heartland America Family Airshow over the weekend at the DuPage Airport in West Chicago. The figure beat last year's attendance by roughly 20,000 people,...