Charles Sheehan

With alcohol-related traffic fatalities historically peaking around Labor Day, federal officials will team up with authorities in Illinois and five other states this weekend for a crackdown in some high-risk...

The Comair commuter jet that crashed Sunday only seconds after taking off on the wrong runway in Kentucky never had a chance to attain the speed required to stay in...

When his buddies came to visit him at the pancake house late Friday, Raez Estrada told them he couldn't skip out of work to join them. He had to finish...

From fake IDs to older siblings to store clerks who don't verify their ages, underage drinkers have plenty of ways to get alcohol. Now, Illinois will try to figure out...

81 degrees. 6:47 a.m. Elmhurst. The sun had been up only an hour when Joe Yeager finished tending his tomatoes and squash. He loaded gardening tools and a water container...

A frantic search for a missing 2-year-old South Elgin boy ended Thursday when his body was pulled from the Fox River about 180 feet from his home. The boy was...

Three teenagers were cited Friday for violating an Elk Grove Village ordinance after police said they brought a plastic pellet gun to high school summer classes and fired a few...

Toni A. Jones-Ellen, 56, didn't need to check the thermometer or flick on the Weather Channel to know what the day was going to be like when she woke up...

Christine Sheetz has had epileptic seizures since she was a toddler. For much of her life, she lived in fear, not knowing when the next one might strike. Then five...

They were everything the jurors who convicted former Gov. George Ryan earlier this year were not: orderly, organized, amicable and in agreement on nearly everything from the moment deliberations began....