Virginia Groark

A woman who believed she was being tailgated drove her car onto the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks near Cass Avenue on Tuesday, but she exited the vehicle before a...

Twenty-seven people were treated and released from five hospitals Friday night after being poisoned by carbon monoxide gas in a southwestern Cook County paper printing and warehousing company. Another 71...

The snowiest autumn in more than a decade continued to pile on Monday, with a storm striking much of northeastern Illinois during daylight hours and concentrated lake effect flurries falling...

A Naperville man was taken into custody early Tuesday after a city police officer stopped him for a minor traffic violation and learned that he was wanted on felony charges...

Kane County probation officers and youth home counselors have opted to go on strike Sunday rather than accept a one-year contract proposal that included a 2 percent raise. The workers,...

Sheriff's police arrested three men and seized 2 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of $600,000 Tuesday after the suspects allegedly tried to sell the drugs to undercover...

Labeling it an "extravagance" the state can no longer afford, Gov.-elect Rod Blagojevich Thursday called for the sale of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority's lavish headquarters in Downers Grove....

Downers Grove police are investigating a fatal car wreck that closed westbound lanes Tuesday night on a section of Ogden Avenue. Police said Geraldine F. Slade, 58, of the 1400...

Safeway Inc., citing the profit drag of a continued soft economy, warned investors that earnings for the current fourth quarter and the coming year would fall short of expectations. Separately,...

The state's budget problems are on the minds of candidates running for 11 Illinois House seats in DuPage County, but their ideas to address the revenue shortfall are as varied...