Tom Pelton

It's too early to say when or if baritone sports announcer Wayne Messmer's voice will again boom for the Blackhawks or Cubs, says his doctor. The bullet that hit Messmer...

Several top state leaders have thrown their support behind a $2 billion proposal that would double the prison population, but experts question whether it would deter crime or win the...

The slayings of two young men-one an avowed gang member, the other a youth who had fled city gangs to the northwest suburbs-made this March perhaps the bloodiest in Chicago's...

Four teenagers, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed and two others wounded in a spate of shootings Friday night and Saturday in Chicago. At least six young people were killed...