Tom McCann

A 10-year-old Bartlett girl who collapsed during a football practice last week died Monday, a victim of blunt trauma to the head, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office....

Still smarting after Democrats snagged a plum endorsement from a police group, top state Republicans Wednesday dismissed the announcement as a cynical bid to curry favor with Democratic House Speaker...

The pastor of Golf Road Baptist Church in Des Plaines looked out his window Thursday morning and feared the worst. Four police cars, lights flashing, had blocked off the street,...

For years American missionaries brought Christianity to Africa. Now African Christians say they want to export their own brand of ecstatic worship and moral discipline to the United States, a...

Daniel Rice, a youth baseball coach who was described as a kind person who just "clicked" with his players, died Wednesday, two days after being struck by lightning on a...

A day after two baseball coaches were struck by lightning at a Buffalo Grove ballpark, one of them remained in critical condition Tuesday as dozens of young players and their...

Gathered in parish meeting halls and basement schoolrooms Tuesday night, thousands of Chicago's Roman Catholics voiced their suggestions, concerns and, in many cases, their anger over the church's sex abuse...

John A. Oremus, 88, known as "Mr. Bridgeview" by the residents he served for more than 40 years as the straight-talking mayor of the southwest suburb, died Thursday in his...

When paramedics found Louis Schustik in his Woodstock home earlier this month, the 94-year-old man apparently had been lying in bed, unattended, for so long that bones had poked through...

They were first cousins and best friends. Their mothers were also best friends and were in the back seat of the Honda Civic that was stopped for a traffic light...