Amy E. Nevala

Prosecutors filed misdemeanor battery charges Friday against 15 Glenbrook North High School seniors who police say took bullying to a criminal level, beating juniors and pelting them with filth in...

As the appeals process began Thursday for Glenbrook North High School students suspended after a brutal hazing, a school lawyer said he hopes to settle lawsuits filed by three seniors...

An 11-year-old Gary girl died Saturday shortly after riding the Raging Bull roller coaster at Six Flags Great America amusement park in Gurnee, the park's first fatality on a ride...

For much of their lives, Robert and Linda Braidwood lived for months in mud huts and tents in the Middle East, she fascinated by the study of ancient tools and...

Desperate to ease crowding and hoping to keep potential dropouts on track, officials at Steinmetz High School divided students into two shifts this week, an approach that more schools may...

Myron B. Shure, 77, who believed that toys did not need gadgetry to entertain children, and who under the Tootsietoy name produced inexpensive age-old favorites from soap bubbles to wood...

Walter W. Pilch Jr. came to the grocery store to buy his favorite soft drink, a small reward after a long day of Christmas shopping. Michael J. Cummings wanted to...

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...

In typical Chicago fashion, Mayor Michael Bilandic gave businessman Lee Flaherty the city's blessing to stage the city's first marathon in 1977. "I was in the mayor's office and brought...

About a year before she kidnapped a toddler from a Chicago bus station last Christmas Eve, Sheila Matthews claimed to be the natural mother of a friend's two young children,...