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The phone has been ringing off the hook at the normally quiet South Barrington Police Department, and the department's 21 full- and part-time officers have been told to forget about...

The Perfect Cup, a Northwest Side coffeehouse, is more than just a place to grab a cup of java, according to those who patronize it. It's a spot where local...

Diane "DSoul" Willis' 15-year-old son was friends with 12-year-old Miguel DeLaRosa, who was gunned down Wednesday in Humboldt Park. Sarvella Jackson is close to the family of Tsarina Powell, the...

The streets near a Loop office building that shed blocks of limestone earlier this week were expected to be open in time for the Wednesday morning rush hour after engineers...

As many as 10 suburban branches of Harris Bank were evacuated and temporarily shut down late Tuesday afternoon after a vague bomb threat was called into a Barrington branch. No...

Lights remained out Saturday for about 8,000 Commonwealth Edison customers in the north and northwest suburbs, but the utility said most of them would have power restored by early Sunday....

Mayor Richard M. Daley was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Saturday after complaining of discomfort in his chest, sending a scare into a city that has lost two mayors...

It has not been a picture perfect year for the Academy Awards. First, more than 4,000 ballots sent to California academy members, whose votes determine the Oscar winners, were lost...

Two children were killed Friday by a fast-moving fire in a West Side apartment building that started after clothes were put on a natural gas space heater to dry, emergency...