Karen Mellen

It started with a ticket for jaywalking, but by the time Don Pennington Jr. left the Calumet City police station, he had a swollen right eye, head contusions and blood...

Nathaniel Fantl, a longtime tenant of the Merchandise Mart, started his career selling flowers on the street during the Great Depression, his first foray into the art of sales. Later,...

A Chicago man who lost consciousness during his first solo jump at Skydive Chicago was the 15th skydiver to die at the facility near Ottawa in the past 12 years,...

A mother of six was shot and left dead in her Robbins apartment and the bodies of two men were dumped miles apart near Interstate Highway 94 in Chicago after...

Ikea, the chic furniture retailer that draws customers from as far away as Iowa to its iconic blue-and-yellow store in Schaumburg, will open a second Illinois location in southwest suburban...

A radio call Sunday afternoon brought Wilmington Police Chief James Metta to Riley Fox's body in Forked Creek, where he fought a desperate urge to pull her from the muddy...

A radio call Sunday afternoon brought Wilmington Police Chief James Metta to Riley Fox's body in Forked Creek, where he fought a desperate urge to pull her from the muddy...

Forty-four years after three socialites from Riverside were bludgeoned to death, their bodies disrobed and dumped in a cave at Starved Rock State Park, the man convicted in the case...

The parishioners of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Joliet sensed something was amiss when proceeds from their weekly spaghetti dinners seemed to shrink around the same time their priest bought...