Tonya Maxwell

Allison Walsh was a quiet and dedicated research assistant at Brookfield Zoo, on her way to make a presentation at a national conference. Jane Cuthbert was a college student en...

The anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has come to mean different things for different people. For some, it's a day to celebrate patriotism, fly flags and honor...

A combination of generosity and geography have created a curious development in Illinois' efforts to provide sanctuary and relief for people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Most relief oases have too...

Like an elf with goodies at the holidays, 4-year-old Sam Wojcik dragged a white bag filled with kids clothes to the Tinley Park Mental Health Center on Wednesday. But the...

With weary, pained faces, the first wave of New Orleans residents airlifted to Chicago settled into their temporary shelters Wednesday, unpacking their salvaged belongings from garbage bags and battered suitcases...

What began as a botched robbery in a Dolton grocery ended Tuesday morning with a six-car pileup that left a young couple dead one month before they were to be...

From Oakland to Buffalo, communities across the country were preparing Sunday to take in some of the hundreds of thousands of people left stranded and homeless by Hurricane Katrina. Texas,...

A Lemont schools superintendent who was set to retire from the district was arrested early Thursday after police said he solicited an undercover female officer for sex. Thomas F. Cusack,...

America Rodriguez came to the United States with her boyfriend Juan Aguilera three years ago. The young couple were earning money to send to their mothers, hoping to buy them...

The workers assembling a massive highway ramp near Lansing had only seconds to scramble when a 240-ton section of steel girders came crashing down, killing one man and injuring three...