Michael Lev

The Police Department will receive a $750,000 federal grant under the recently passed crime bill to add 10 officers to the force, Waukegan police Chief George Bridges said. The department...

One by one, a few relatives of passengers aboard doomed USAir Flight 427 came to O'Hare International Airport Thursday night. The flight had originated there hours earlier, and, as happens...

No great discovery has to be made-no invention of some new device, no solving of an age-old mathematical riddle-to stop the killing, abuse and neglect of children. The answers are...

Child abuse isn't a problem unique to modern times, even if vast attention to it is. For centuries, children in many societies were viewed as nothing more than chattel, property...

It was an outing perfectly suited for a warm spring day: Richard Mar and Diana Penman of Hanover Park packed up their 7-month-old twins in the family van Thursday and...

Left home alone, the young brother and sister who died in a Niles house fire Wednesday set the blaze themselves playing with matches or a lighter, officials said Thursday. The...

The phone was ringing off the hook, people were walking in off the street, and a cat was meowing at the front desk Friday night when the Schaumburg-Woodfield Holiday Inn...

A wicked ice storm continued to paralyze a swath of suburbs for a second day Friday, leaving tens of thousands of people shivering without heat, creating several overnight shelters and...

A mature female llama normally fetches $1,500 on the open market, but Saturday, $300 was all a smart shopper needed. That and some sensitivity. Speckles the llama was one of...

A group of gun shop owners filed a federal lawsuit in Chicago Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of Cook County's new ban prohibiting gun stores from operating within a half-mile of...