Marla Donato

Clyde Williams couldn't keep the bags of salt on the shelves at PJ's Ace Hardware in Oak Park Thursday. The snow blowers were sold out by 3 p.m., and the...

A Chicago Park District employee who led after-school recreation programs for elementary school-age children was fired Sunday, days after a child reported that the employee asked the child to disrobe,...

Chicago real estate developer Bruce Abrams died Sunday after falling from the 18th-floor balcony of a downtown condominium building, authorities said. Abrams was seen by witnesses climbing over the rail...

Labor lawyer Solomon Hirsh, who represented a union, government regulators and individual workers, died of leukemia Sunday in his Evanston home. Mr. Hirsh, 67, adapted to significant changes in the...

Terrance Hodges climbed over the wooden rail fence encompassing the Christmas manger scene in the Daley Center Plaza on Monday and placed a stark black-and-white sign at the center. It...

Chicago police and Chicago high school basketball coaches were searching Thursday for troubled Dallas Mavericks forward Leon Smith after an alleged incident at a Chicago high school involving the former...

For a decade, pupils at the Ana Roque De Duprey Elementary School, housed in the former St. Fidelis Catholic School in Humboldt Park, have had to use a chapel for...

Was it a plane? A satellite? A speck of cosmic dust? Or just a precursor to a larger Leonid meteor shower expected to peak Wednesday night? Not many people seemed...

The Chicago Fire Department's internal affairs unit is investigating reports that firefighters from a North Side firehouse were cavorting on a fire engine with women, city officials confirmed Thursday. The...

During the heyday, Tom Cruise and wife Nicole Kidman gave Demi Moore a traveling humidor, and Danny DeVito let it be known that Arnold Schwarzenegger had turned him into a...