Mitch Smith

A Chicagoan studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign died in Brazil this week and, in an unrelated incident, a second student went missing over the weekend while swimming...

The husband of a bicyclist killed in a hit-and-run collision on the South Side last month is suing the driver charged with driving the van that killed the man's wife....

Rescue crews pulled a body from the Chicago River on Wednesday evening near the Loop, police said. Officer Stacey Cooper said the body, a male whose age wasn't known, was...

All lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway were opened this morning after a blinding downpour shut down traffic in both directions in Broadview Tuesday evening. The expressway was closed near 25th...