Robert Blau

The tangled and tragic case of the prosecutor, the most notorious Chicago street gang and the U.S. Justice Department, grinds on in the federal courts. When he brought the street...

Early Wednesday morning, a 7-year-old girl walked out of her room in Wyler Children's Hospital, approached a nurse and described a terrifying ordeal. She had been raped in her bed....

In the understated vocabulary of those whose job it is to study the weather, the snow that swept the Chicago area Friday was a "precipitation event." For those trying to...

Chicago police made another handgun arrest early Thursday morning. It wasn't a street-gang member toting a pistol for the sport of it. It wasn't a homeowner who kept it in...

When Jasmine Bolden broke the rules, she paid the price. If she was caught playing with the detergent or splashing in the toilet, police reports show, the 21-month-old girl was...

When Roger LaPlant heard allegations that Cardinal Joseph Bernardin had sexually abused a high school student in the late '70s, his reaction was one of empathy. LaPlant, a retired gas...

A near-riot in Cook County Jail and a dramatic escape by a prisoner have sparked renewed warnings and recriminations over conditions at the excessively crowded penal facility. The warehousing of...

For Harry Belluomini, working security part time at the Dirksen Federal Building was one step closer to a dream of long afternoons spent floating on a Wisconsin lake. The retired...

The bullet that hit congressional candidate Mel Reynolds` car underscores the violence that long has played at the edges of political campaigns in Chicago, where mayhem is almost as common...