Rick Hepp

The day after a storm dumped more than 4 inches of rain on the Chicago area, homeowners on Friday were again mopping up and weather forecasters were puzzling over how...

Colleagues and family members of Chicago Police Detective Joseph M. Airhart Jr. were handed the thinnest threads Thursday from which to weave hope. The swelling from the gunshot wound Airhart...

Just hours before a federal task force tried to arrest Daniel M. Salley on an armed bank robbery charge Tuesday, his mother told agents her son's "mind slipped" in recent...

As the silver hearse bearing Police Officer Brian Strouse's casket rolled up to the church, a phalanx of officers tried to hold their salutes steady, but many white-gloved hands shook....

A Chicago woman was charged late Monday with reckless homicide after her rented car crashed into a couple from Egypt and killed their 2-month-old son in a stroller on a...

A new mother apparently suffering from postpartum mental illness fell to her death from a narrow 12th-floor ledge of a Chicago hotel Monday, eluding the lunging grasp of firefighters called...

A missing, 41-year-old woman, who had been suffering from postpartum psychosis after the recent birth of a child, fell to her death this morning from a North Side hotel, authorities...

Peoples Gas Co. workers on Friday ratified a four-year contract, ending a three-week walkout by the union's 1,050 workers and sending them back to work Monday. By a vote of...

Fourth-grader Maya Hart said it wasn't hard for her to figure out why her school, St. Sabina, was turned away from a mostly white Catholic athletic league. "They don't want...