Mom tells details of deadly fire
As far as Julie Steffen knew, everything was fine Saturday afternoon. Her two older boys were lying in front of the television downstairs and watching "Rugrats." She was upstairs feeding...
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Mugging victim died near home
When Frank Matacena set off to visit family in Italy, a suitcase in each hand, his girlfriend and pals from the Rogers Park neighborhood waved farewell as he got onto...
Unusual, but not indicative
Chicago police and school officials said Wednesday that drug charges brought against two Chicago Public Schools employees in recent days are not indicative of a wider drug problem involving school...
Push for assault weapons ban revived
Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan, Cook County State's Atty. Richard Devine and about two dozen other gun-control advocates called for renewed support for a ban on assault weapons in Illinois...
21 hurt in gang fight at Cook jail
A melee broke out between members of rival street gangs in a maximum-security wing of Cook County Jail on Saturday afternoon, leaving 21 inmates injured, six seriously, prison authorities said....
SUV driver held in boy’s death
A 22-year-old motorist who police say was drunk when he struck and killed a 6-year-old boy on the North Side was charged with felony murder and ordered held without bail...
Boy killed by SUV is remembered
Sixteen years working as principal of Goudy Elementary School has taught Patrick Durkin to talk straight to kids. So with a crisis counselor at his side Wednesday morning, he told...
Lincoln Park keeper safe after attack in lion pit
A cool-headed keeper at Lincoln Park Zoo radioed for her own rescue Thursday morning after she somehow ended up in the outdoor lion enclosure at the same time as the...
SEC sues money manager on big loss
A Winnetka investment manager who lost more than $10 million in client wealth apparently fled the country and then sent videotaped confessions to his investors from a sailboat cabin somewhere...
Intelligence panel gets new chairman
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) tapped Rep. Peter Hoekstra on Wednesday to head the House Intelligence Committee during a period likely to see considerable reform and turmoil in the nation's...