Jerry Thornton

A Cook County grand jury indicted seven people, five of them from the northwest suburbs, in connection with the March abduction of an Orland Park businessman. The seven are charged...

A grand jury indicted seven persons, five of them from the northwest suburbs, in connection with the March abduction of an Orland Park businessman, authorities announced Tuesday. The seven are...

A man who once appeared in a Champaign County courtroom on a civil case has been charged with throwing a Molotov cocktail into the courtroom Tuesday morning. The bomb caused...

More than 30 people, including the wife of a Humboldt Park man who died during a struggle with police, attended a Chicago Police Board meeting Thursday night and demanded the...

A pall of sadness crept over millions Thursday as news of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's death spread, and many of those touched by the humble prelate talked with admiration of his...

A Northwest Side man stabbed his wife and niece to death before killing himself by plunging a kitchen knife into his chest, police said Tuesday. Stefan Peptenar, 35, had lured...

A 15-year-old girl was convicted Tuesday of attempted murder and other charges for attacking a 65-year-old supervisor in a Schaumburg group home for runaway teen-age girls. Cook County Associate Judge...

Two women and a girl were each shot in the head and left critically wounded Wednesday afternoon in an Oak Park flower shop. They were found on the floor of...

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), following a meeting Friday evening with community and political activists, said he will push for a grand jury review in the fatal shooting of a...

Willie Harvey said it was the the echo of gunfire that brought him from his Austin basement onto the porch of the home he shares with his wife and two...