Store tapes, church dig go nowhere
Fighting mounting frustration, teams of FBI agents and scores of Chicago police investigators dug in the basement of an abandoned church and combed South Side neighborhoods Friday for clues in...
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Store security tape buoys hopes
An image of two young girls resembling a pair of South Side sisters missing for a week was captured by surveillance video Tuesday at a grocery just three blocks from...
Union leader survives challenge in election
Henry Tamarin, appointed head of the Chicago-area chapter of the hotel and restaurant union in 1999, was elected its president on Wednesday. Tamarin, of the Better Contract Team, received 1,851...
Feds trace origins of Cicero plot
For all her self-assured defiance, Cicero Town President Betty Loren-Maltese owes much of what she has today to her late husband--and that may include her indictment on federal charges of...
Bad breaks thwarted cops in serial killings
For years, Paul Frederick Runge was a suspect, and he knew it. Five and a half months after the death and dismemberment of a young woman in January 1995, federal...
Hillard vowing safety at Sabina
As Catholic parishes wrestled over whether a mostly black grammar school will be allowed to play in a mostly white league, Chicago Police Supt. Terry Hillard on Monday said he...
Truce ends Dixmoor `anarchy’
Like dueling juntas in some strife-torn nation, two Dixmoor governments staked their claims to power in the south suburb Thursday, creating what the village attorney called "a state of anarchy."...
ELGIN SUIT ALLEGES SCHOOL SPORTS BIAS
An Elgin High School girl who overcame barriers to play on the boys football team filed a class-action lawsuit with three other students in federal court Tuesday, alleging widespread disparities...
Bid-rigging charges widen license probe
Breaking new ground in the Operation Safe Road investigation of widespread corruption during Gov. George Ryan's tenure as secretary of state, federal prosecutors charged a former top official Thursday with...
HAMMOND KILLINGS LINK PROBED
Police and federal authorities are investigating the fatal shootings of five people whose bodies were discovered about 16 hours apart Tuesday and Wednesday at two crime scenes in Hammond, Ind....