William Recktenwald

The Chicago Park District, under revamped management, is exploring a new site for the annual Air and Water Show, which begins its 28th annual performance this weekend along the lakefront,...

Cook County State`s Atty. Richard M. Daley insisted Sunday that he`s not interested in running for governor, but other Democratic officials predicted that efforts will continue to name a replacement...

Residents of the Edgewater community, an area in which condominiums, businesses and a large population of the city`s cabdrivers coexist, sat down Wednesday night to discuss the matter of where...

Alicia Quiroga, 14, was on her way to a phone booth in the South Lawndale neighborhood with two friends early Sunday when she was struck by a stray bullet, another...

The two lanes of Old Route 36 stretch between Decatur and Springfield in Central Illinois, cutting through vast fields of corn and soybean and paralleling rusty railroad tracks. Winding among...

A man described by witnesses as mentally disturbed seized a passenger on an airliner at O`Hare International Airport Friday night, put a knife to her throat and demanded to be...

A chemical plant in south suburban Dolton remained closed Monday as workers cleaned up the debris from a massive fire there that forced the temporary evacuation of hundreds of nearby...

A North Side man, described by neighbors as a recluse, reportedly shot and killed his landlord and a Chicago police officer Thursday, then barricaded himself in a neighbor`s house while...

Mayor Harold Washington said Sunday that he will ask the Chicago City Council to pass ordinances giving subpoena power to his newly appointed investigator, former U.S. Atty. Thomas Sullivan, and...

An autopsy on the badly burned body of a Chicago police officer found in a burned-out van on the city`s South Side showed that the patrolman had been shot in...