Robert Blau

Six steel coffins circled the altar of St. Matthew Lutheran Church Monday as friends, relatives and many others who knew little about Herminio Elizalde and his five children bid farewell...

The attorney for Debra Gedzius on Thursday accused police of misconduct in their investigation into the deaths of her six children and her estranged husband. Attorney Lawrence W. Levin said...

Police on Thursday captured two escapees from the Joliet Correctional Center in an afternoon raid on a South Side home, authorities said. James Allen, 40, and Daniel Johnson, 24, were...

A reputed Chicago mob chieftain claimed that former Cook County Undersheriff James Dvorak was paid off to protect one of the county`s biggest gambling operations, according to a secret government...

Charles Thompson, a 13-year-old pupil at John Hope Community Academy, lived in numbing fear of the violent street gangs that often terrorize youngsters at his South Side elementary school. Charles`...

The mysterious and once perilous life of William O`Neal, 40, a key federal government informant who infiltrated the Black Panthers in the late 1960s, ended in Maywood earlier this week...

Two Chicago police officers were indicted and pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of first-degree murder in connection with the fatal beating of Robert Markey, 39, of unincorporated Lombard. The...

Twice every month, Lloyd Benjamin traveled from his home in the western suburbs to collect insurance premiums from Hunter Wash, an auto mechanic who lived with his family in the...

Chicago and Lombard police are investigating the death of a 39-year-old Du Page County man who died last month of a ruptured spleen six days after scuffling with two Chicago...

Robert Williams was known to the residents of his West Side block as ''Mr. Williams,'' the elderly man who gave away dollar bills to children and picked up soda cans...