Graeme Zielinski

A veteran Chicago police officer was killed and his partner seriously injured Saturday afternoon in a South Side shootout that erupted as the plainclothes officers were tailing a car that...

Striding through the streets of this small town Tuesday, the slightly built 15-year-old suspect in an alleged plot to kill his high school classmates had, for the benefit of pursuing...

To the horror of onlooking workers at Midway Airport, a fuel truck Saturday morning backed over and fatally injured a cargo handler who had been on the job only days....

For nearly nine hours, the jury kept the photographs of Lenard Clark's badly beaten body before them. In almost no time, they agreed that Frank Caruso Jr. had indeed beaten...

Hours after U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun used a racial epithet Monday to describe herself as a victim of racism, the Democratic incumbent issued an apology for losing her temper and...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Glenn Poshard lashed out at Republican rival George Ryan on Sunday for suggesting the state law that gives veterans an advantage in getting state jobs is discriminatory...

A day after a Bolingbrook child drowned when he was sucked a half mile through a rain-swollen storm drain, village officials hastily decided on Wednesday to install a grate over...

An attempt by police to break up a large gathering in a Cook County Forest Preserve near Schiller Park on Sunday afternoon resulted in the arrests of a dozen people...

An attempt by police to break up a gathering of thousands of people in a Cook County Forest Preserve near Schiller Park on Sunday afternoon resulted in at least a...