Deborah Horan

After days of misery, flood-ravaged communities around Chicago and along the Indiana border were on the path to recovery Wednesday. In Des Plaines, where nearly 2,500 homes and buildings were...

Trails at Starved Rock State Park are clearly marked to warn hikers not to venture to a canyon's rocky edge, but every year at least one person plunges down the...

A quiet block of large homes in north suburban Lincolnwood was the scene of a shootout Monday afternoon when a Skokie police officer pulled over a car driven by bank...

Patrick Salmon devoted his life to his South Side neighborhood, bringing jobs to Back of the Yards as president of the neighborhood council and building a family and lifelong friendships...

Following on the heels of a Supreme Court decision that held that a blanket ban on handguns violated 2nd Amendment rights, Evanston's City Council voted 7-1 Monday night to amend...

A man wanted on charges of murdering his wife in a Lincolnshire parking lot apparently was planning to return to his far north suburban home when a police officer arrested...

An arrest warrant on a charge of first-degree murder was issued Sunday for the husband of a Waukegan woman who was fatally stabbed and then collapsed in the lobby of...

Holiday weekend beach forecast: windburn for sunbathers, with a side order of ice-cream headache for swimmers. The upside: At least beach-closing bacteria will hate it too. A brew of cool...

In a sustained push to win greater influence during the next presidential administration, immigrant groups across the country are launching a major door-knocking campaign to register hundreds of thousands of...

Elizabeth Frostick's family of five gets by on less than $30,000 a year. They rent a three-bedroom apartment in Evanston, dress their children in used Gap clothing and get free...