William Recktenwald

On the trail of a dead killer, Chicago police took shovels in hand on a windy Monday and dug up a glass marble, a flattened sauce pan and the memory...

After voting Tuesday, Edward Pozneck and his wife stepped outside the polling place at Immaculate Conception Parish into the wan light and biting wind of the coldest day of the...

The familiar, if peculiar, sound of victory broke out in Chicago when the final buzzer on the Bulls championship sounded Sunday night: whooping and hollering, firecrackers and gunfire, and police...

The peculiar sound of victory broke out in Chicago as soon as the final buzzer sounded on Sunday: whooping and hollering, firecrackers and gunfire, and police sirens wailing all across...

A 39-year-old Chicago Fire Department scuba diver died Tuesday afternoon while attempting to recover the bodies of two men from the Little Calumet River. Firefighter Eugene Blackmon, an 11-year department...

Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center officials Monday revoked a policy that allowed staffers to ignore a critically wounded 15-year-old boy only steps from the emergency room after Chicago police criticized what...

A Gulf War veteran working at his godfather's gas station in central Evanston was killed Monday morning, in what police said was the first slaying at a business in the...

A treasure on Chicago's map since 1926, Wacker Drive is twice the road of any other street in town. The city's first large-scale double-tiered roadway, Wacker was sculpted along the...

A cold, hard rain poured relentlessly on some 1,300 firefighters who came from as far away as Providence, R.I., Seattle and even Alaska to honor one of their own. Few...

At a time when advances in emergency medical care have significantly improved survival rates for victims of heart attacks, strokes and other traumas, Chicago continues to operate with an outdated...