Virginia Groark

With Congress still wrangling over a federal transportation bill, the state unveiled a six-year $9.15 billion highway improvement program that focuses on maintaining roads and keeping bridges in top shape...

Chicago Bulls fans may know guard Kirk Hinrich as a pretty good passer. Illinois Tollway officials like to think of him as a good pitchman. Hinrich, who along with his...

Many people may know Jack Hartman as the executive director of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. But Tuesday night at The Drake hotel, Hartman, who was honored by the...

As news spread of the death of Pope John Paul II, people across the Chicago area talked with Tribune reporters about the man who held the papacy since 1978. On...

Baby-sitter bills mounted, dinner plans were scuttled and taxis were hailed after a BNSF Railway labor dispute in Texas snarled the evening commute for more than 20,000 Metra commuters Wednesday....

In the season's first significant snowstorm, which dumped from 1 1/2 to 14 inches of powder across the Chicago area, four men died while trying to clear their driveways. On...

A man charged with murder Thursday in the shooting deaths of three men in a restaurant parking lot Tuesday once described himself to police as a hit man, authorities said....

A 55-year-old Lombard man was charged Thursday with three counts of attempted murder after being accused shooting one police officer in the shoulder and injuring two others when they tried...

An Elmhurst man in custody Monday in the fatal shooting of a high school student pledged three times in the last two years to turn over to police any guns...