Dave Wischnowsky

Charles R. Amrich, mayor of northwest suburban Island Lake for 20 years until he left office in 2005, was charged Thursday with five felony counts of allegedly pocketing thousands of...

Balloons flitted in the warm breeze Saturday afternoon on Chicago's South Side, marking a makeshift memorial outside a home where two teenagers and two adults were found dead early Friday...

A massive extra-alarm fire erupted in a warehouse building on Chicago's Northwest Side on Saturday afternoon, emitting black smoke visible for miles and halting several Metra trains in the area....

The way the crowd erupted at ESPN Zone in downtown Chicago on Saturday afternoon, you would have thought the Cubs had finally won the World Series. It was that loud....

A Lake County man accused of fatally stabbing his wife was arrested Tuesday evening after a tip was phoned in to police, officials said. An arrest warrant had been issued...

Most everybody has a point at which the hype has gone too far, and for Korean War veteran Tom Schmit, it was at the Lake Forest veterans memorial. There Schmit...

A propane gas leak led to a huge explosion Wednesday in a west side Milwaukee industrial area, killing three people at a transmission parts plant and injuring 46 others. But...

A man trying to disarm a Chicago police officer was shot to death Saturday afternoon during a struggle on the South Side, officials said. Police got a tip about 4...

Surging Democrats benefited from a "trickle-down effect" as they captured seats in the Chicago suburbs long held by Republicans, who kept a grip on county boards, political leaders said Wednesday....

A Glenview businessman wanted in Poland for soliciting the gangland-style murder of a former national police chief was taken into custody Friday morning at his home, an arrest billed as...