Tom Rybarczyk

Residents near the Lincoln Park Zoo vowed Sunday to fight for more safety features at a busy intersection as they created a memorial for a 4-year-old girl killed Saturday by...

An FBI-orchestrated weapons buy in a Dolton parking lot went awry late Wednesday, leading to the fatal shooting of an informant who was wearing a wire and being watched by...

At least one empty freight car being pulled by an Amtrak passenger train derailed Sunday afternoon near a town in southern DeKalb County, officials said. No one on the train...

Defending his administration amid an expanding federal probe of state hiring, Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Sunday said his office followed the rules when red flags were raised last year about...

Hoping to heal what they called the nation's "deep wounds" over the issue, Chicago-area religious leaders joined with hundreds of immigration-reform activists Sunday to call for an end to laws...

Jurors in the corruption trial of former Gov. George Ryan were told last fall that they should expect to sacrifice at least four months of their lives in the name...

Like a movie set at the end of shooting, Room 2170 of the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse was quiet and empty Tuesday. An extraordinary legal drama had just concluded there, and...

In the evidence and transcripts amassed during more than six months of trial, there was no smoking gun, said jurors who decided George Ryan's fate. Their decision to convict Ryan...

All Ronald and Tamara Bowens wanted their son, Laron, to do was get a job or go back to college and jump-start his life. In desperation, Tamara Bowens recently penned...

Two females and one male were found shot to death Tuesday in a Matteson home after police were asked to do a well-being check, authorities said. Matteson police had to...