Art Barnum

Cook County and suburban prosecutors will begin the messy process of sorting out roughly 90 pending capital cases now that the death penalty is gone in Illinois. While it was...

Four days after the owner of a Schiller Park tavern was found beaten to death inside his burned-out business, authorities Monday found the body of a woman there and also...

The woman accused of murdering her 4-year-old daughter in a Bloomingdale town house last week told police she killed the girl to keep her from being raped and sold as...

Moments after the verdict was read, Michael Nutoni looked up at the courtroom ceiling and delivered a message to his daughter. "I said, 'You're resting in peace now,' " he...

Moments after the verdict was read, Michael Nutoni looked up at the courtroom ceiling and delivered a message to his daughter. "I said, 'You're resting in peace now,'" he said....

On his normal rounds at Brookfield Zoo on Monday, Alejandro Grajal kept getting stopped by keepers, grounds people and other employees grieving over the death of Tara Feldman Alamilla. The...

A DuPage County judge Wednesday refused to dismiss murder charges against a Willow Springs man charged with the murder of three members of a Darien family this month. Judge Daniel...