Robert Blau

Sometimes, cops have to follow their instincts. That`s what Chicago police detectives did Monday night in Skokie when they dropped their investigation of a jewel theft and instead followed two...

At a Rolling Meadows factory last week, nearly 2,000 employees wore their pride over the Persian Gulf war victory on their backs. Printed on T-shirts ordered by their employer, an...

A bizarre turn of scholarly fate may be the break a University of Chicago professor has awaited for 20 years. Last year at a conference of biblical scholars, Norman Golb...

Three men, including a Cook County sheriff`s investigator, were charged Thursday in the shooting of a Cook County Jail guard who had been working on the election campaign of Ald....

The increasingly bitter campaign for Cook County sheriff took still another bizarre turn Wednesday as sheriff`s police were trying to identify an individual who impersonated a sheriff`s investigator while doling...

Two men, believed to be Chicago police officers, are under investigation for breaking into a North Side fast-food restaurant and taking the contents of a cash register and a safe,...

The charred pieces of Lucien Senese`s white Buick that rained down on South May Street last week were a shocking reminder of the violent history of Chicgo`s mob-which, despite a...

Lucien Senese, carrying a briefcase at his side, left a girlfriend`s home in Chicago`s Little Italy on Thursday morning and walked to a white Buick parked in the driveway. He...

Since he opened his Esmeralda grocery store four months ago, Martin Martinez has extended credit to customers and played softball with neighborhood kids. He thought people liked him. Early Sunday...

At 2:40 a.m. on June 8, Curtis Sims, a self-employed mechanic, left his girlfriend`s house and headed for his red and white Chevy, parked in the 5300 block of South...