Mom finds solace in church
Seeking comfort for her heartache, Tracey Bradley sang hymns and played a tambourine during a church service Sunday while police and FBI agents continued the 10-day search for her daughters....
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Cook County: Major crime figures mixed
Reports of major crime declined in Chicago and across most of the north and west Cook County suburbs in 2000, according to figures released by the Illinois State Police. For...
Major crime falls in Chicago
Reports of major crime declined in Chicago and across most of the north and west Cook County suburbs in 2000, according to figures released by the Illinois State Police. For...
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...
Hunt goes far, wide for sisters
The search for the missing sisters took on a frenzied pace Tuesday as police fanned out across the South Side--digging up two potential graves in the Dan Ryan Woods and...
Girls’ neighbors turn to prayer
More than 200 neighbors gathered for a vigil Monday for two young sisters missing since Friday, and the FBI joined Chicago police in the search for Tionda Bradley, 10, and...
PUSH attacks profiling report
Saying minorities still pass through many Chicago suburbs "on eggshells," leaders of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition on Thursday blasted a study that showed no evidence of racial profiling in Hillside, and...
ABDUCTED TEACHER DIED OF GUN SHOT
Wardella Winchester, the South Side high school teacher who was abducted and found dead at an East Hazel Crest recycling center Wednesday, died of a single gun shot to the...
NAVISTAR GUNMAN GOT PAST CRACKS IN GUN LAW
When a DuPage County judge convicted William D. Baker of criminal sexual assault on May 22, 1998, authorities should have made him relinquish possession of firearms he owned. They didn't....
2 MEN ACCUSED OF KILLING TEEN OVER ECSTASY
Two reputed members of an Asian gang allegedly gaining control over the growing market for the club drug Ecstasy have been charged in the killing of a suburban high school...