William Recktenwald

Lake Michigan's freshwater sailors made a respectable showing during Yachting Race Week Key West. Some of the world's top sailors were drawn to Florida for the five-race series in which...

Investigators of the massacre at the Brown's Chicken & Pasta in Palatine are examining whether a recent series of armed robberies at suburban stores and restaurants might reveal a clue...

Palatine has a police department with 92 employees, 69 of whom are officers. On Saturday, the department needed help. Within minutes after seven bodies were found in a Brown's Chicken...

Palatine has a police department with 92 employees, 69 of whom are officers. On Saturday, the department needed help. Within minutes after seven bodies were found in a Brown's Chicken...

When Matteson paramedics rushed 8-month-old Shahon Mighty to Olympia Fields Osteopathic Medical Center on Sunday evening, it was not the infant`s first trip to the emergency room. But it was...

There hasn`t been a shooting in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex since 7-year-old Dantrell Davis was killed by a sniper as he walked to school two months ago. On...

Some adults want to take you for a ride. It`s OK - they don`t want to scam you, they just want to take you flying - for free. A group...

Vince Hughes, estranged from girlfriend Vickie Pichotti for several months, planned on paying her a visit last Friday night to try and set things straight. On Monday, Pichotti was trying...

An Illinois National Guard captain who served during the civil disturbances surrounding 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago boasted ''we`re the ones who stopped the riots.'' But now that Donald Lynn...

''What`s up, man?'' was all the kid in the hooded jacket said as he put a pistol to the temple of De Mon Topps. The chubby 13-year-old never had a...