Gerry Doyle

A car carrying six Proviso West High School students on their way to the first rehearsal of a dance group slammed into a tree Tuesday afternoon in Hillside, killing two...

Only hours before a wrecking crane headed toward the Wirt Dexter Building's remains Wednesday, Lorraine Phillips was pleading with Landmarks Illinois for money to preserve the structure, a design of...

As family and friends of a local Marine shot to death last week gathered Wednesday to mourn the 19-year-old, North Carolina officials investigating his death and that of his roommate...

Foie gras appeared on pizza on Archer Avenue Tuesday, complemented cornbread and catfish at a South Side soul food place, and was stacked on sausages like pats of butter at...

Commuters, have you lost your bearings? If so, don't look to some of the new CTA signs for help. And if you've been searching all around Chicago for a street...

What appears to be a projectile shattered the window of a pickup truck in northwest Indiana Wednesday afternoon in what law enforcement officials said was the 10th such incident in...

Eleanor Henry's day had been hard enough, even before a power outage sucked the life from her air conditioner Wednesday afternoon. After enduring a morning colonoscopy at a local hospital,...

A day after the release of a historic report on police torture, attorneys for four men who say their confessions were coerced served federal subpoenas on the special prosecutors Thursday,...

The combined effects of this week's sweltering heat and a violent thunderstorm continued to be felt Wednesday as officials confirmed four more heat-related deaths and thousands of homes in the...

Near-100-degree heat that baked the Chicago area was cited as a factor in the deaths of three Cook County women and blamed for violent weather that downed hundreds of trees...