Rick Jervis

July roared across the Midwest like a two-headed dragon, spitting lightning and belching out a record-tying number of thunderstorms, and August has started off with similar firepower. Over the weekend,...

Meet John J. Houlihan just once, the story goes, and he'd greet you by name years later. In addition to his legendary memory, Mr. Houlihan, a former Illinois lawmaker and...

A line of severe thunderstorms moved through northern Illinois Tuesday, raking the already raw nerves of storm-weary residents and generating unconfirmed reports of funnel clouds and dozens of calls to...

A legal fight is erupting over scarce artifacts of Chicago's deadliest disaster, the 1915 capsizing of the Eastland cruise ship, in which 844 people died in the Chicago River. The...

Police and volunteer divers, aided by a cadaver-sniffing police dog, found the body of a Berwyn man Wednesday who disappeared 24 hours earlier under the murky surface of Wolf Lake...

Several hundred protesters gathered in a Berwyn park Saturday to try to shout down a tiny rally by the Ku Klux Klan, while nearly 150 gathered at a nearby church...

Leaving a trail of empty liquor bottles, used condoms, drugs and destruction, raucous teens trashed two west suburban homes while their owners were away on spring break, resulting in charges...

A St. Louis teenager trying to slide down a stairwell banister at the Museum of Science and Industry fell three stories to her death Saturday, Chicago police said. Katie Brooks,...

An 11-year-old foster boy who vanished last summer and whose skeletal remains recently were found in an eastern Illinois cornfield should not have been in the custody of his grandmother...