Virginia Groark

Thomas James Holden was wanted by the FBI after he killed three people in 1949 in Chicago. Lee Emory Downs earned the distinction after stealing $10,800 from a California telephone...

Edward H. Levi, a former University of Chicago president who became U.S. attorney general and restored confidence in the Justice Department following the Watergate scandal, died Tuesday at his home...

Clyde Williams couldn't keep the bags of salt on the shelves at PJ's Ace Hardware in Oak Park Thursday. The snow blowers were sold out by 3 p.m., and the...

State police are investigating more than $180,000 in missing cash that is believed to have been stolen from the money-counting room in the Downers Grove headquarters of the Illinois State...

As much as 20 inches of new snow could fall today in parts of northwest Indiana before the storm moves east tonight, making travel in the region treacherous, according to...

At Charles Schwab & Co. Inc's. Michigan Avenue brokerage office on Tuesday, Keith Klamer, a 40-year-old advertising copy writer, took the plunge. Just one day after receiving an inheritance from...

A thunderous explosion that ripped through a Niles metal recycling company just before noon Wednesday left four workers critically burned and three others injured. Investigators said the likely source of...

Natalie Diffenbaugh and her friends went to the Esquire Theater in downtown Chicago on Saturday afternoon to catch a Christmas screening of "The Talented Mr. Ripley." But the show was...

As winter officially starts Wednesday, this week's cold snap should begin to snap back into relative warmth--but only after single-digit temperatures and high winds created havoc and headaches for many...

Loren Walgreen, whose battle against the former CEO of the Walgreens drugstore chain for custody of her children turned her into a public figure, was found dead in a West...