Charles Sheehan

A leaky 4-inch water pipe flooded a downtown electrical substation Thursday, cutting power to three buildings in a 19-block area in Chicago's Loop, snarling traffic, interrupting shopping and causing lights...

A driver charged with the hit-and-run death of a 4-year-old girl near Lincoln Park Zoo on Saturday has a history of traffic violations, criminal convictions and problems with anxiety, according...

City inspectors said they shut down a Southwest Side grocery after finding rat burrows in a dirt floor and rat droppings throughout the store. The Dumpster Task Force, which enforces...

The state last week issued awards to 11 people who helped investigators with one of the most difficult crimes to crack--arson. The state formed the Illinois Arson Award Committee, hoping...

A four-time convicted rapist armed with a prison-made knife held a female therapist hostage for 25 hours at the Dixon Correctional Center before prison officials took him into custody Friday...

Inspectors for the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation shut down a grocery store and a butcher shop last week after finding evidence of mouse infestations. At Bornhofen's Meat Market,...

A federal judge on Friday rebuffed a bid for a mistrial by lawyers for former Gov. George Ryan, acknowledging that a juror had brought outside legal research into deliberations but...

As her South Shore neighbors mourned Friday for a 74-year-old woman who was found slain in her home, the community was on edge, fearing she may be the second victim...

Just holding the Rojtman diamond stirs the heart, and when the holder is wearing a $90 tweed jacket and a $9 haircut about a half dozen Sotheby's security guards stir...