Tonya Maxwell

Despite a reprieve from searing temperatures, authorities on Thursday said that heat-related ailments contributed to the deaths of nine more Chicago residents whose bodies were discovered a day earlier. The...

One man disappeared into the chilly waters of Lake Michigan on Sunday after the small single-engine plane he was flying crash-landed 4 miles from the Chicago shoreline. The plane's only...

Two of three teenagers accused in a brutal attack in West Beverly of an 8th grader with heart problems were ordered held on battery and robbery charges after appearing in...

A 14-year-old boy attacked in a park in Chicago's West Beverly neighborhood remained in a drug-induced coma Tuesday afternoon while one of the teens accused in the incident appeared before...

A longtime pilot from Wisconsin died Sunday morning after his single-engine plane collided with another plane while landing in formation at an air show in Peru, Ill., officials said. The...

Hospitals and outreach workers are struggling against a surge of fatal heroin overdoses in Chicago, as word has spread that more potent, though deadly, drugs have hit the street. Police...

In the evidence and transcripts amassed during more than six months of trial, there was no smoking gun, said jurors who decided George Ryan's fate. Their decision to convict Ryan...

After the early morning home break-in that ended in the death of her husband, Jennifer Barrett found one comfort as she packed up to leave her South Side apartment Thursday...

A Chicago man was charged Tuesday with murder in the December death of an off-duty postal worker shot outside her Lawndale home. Prosecutors allege that on Dec. 14, Suzette Coleman,...

Bears defensive lineman Terry "Tank" Johnson was arrested for the second time in eight months early Sunday morning and charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors. According to...