William Recktenwald

Farragut High School basketball player Ronnie Fields, whose dazzling showtime moves and 47-inch vertical leap had taken him to the top of the prep basketball world, saw his life go...

A firefighter catches a girl in midair, but 4 people are killed in a blaze linked to smoking at a South Side high-rise that had been cited for code violations....

At first the propeller turns slowly, then with a burst of noise and a puff of smoke, the huge radial engine of the 1929 Ford Tri-Motor comes to life. In...

If the 10- and 11-year-old boys accused of tossing 5-year-old Eric Morris to his death are convicted of murder, their case will further prove that Illinois' justice system has yet...

The Chicago City Council unanimously banned the sale of handgun ammunition within the city limits on Wednesday, becoming the first U.S. city to pass such a measure, according to national...

Chicago's homicide rate continues to rise and threatens to eclipse even the most deadly year in the city's history, when 970 people were slain in 1974. Through Friday morning, police...

For the second year in a row, Chicago's violent crime rate fell by more than 6 percent in 1993, but the city still ranked as one of the five most...

Fueled by a bloody weekend that left 13 people dead, Chicago's murder toll is mounting at a near-record pace, with 208 people slain in the city so far this year....

Crystal Yvette Merritt, a 13-year-old honor student shot while walking to school last week, was eulogized before about 200 people in an emotional service Wednesday night. "Her morning walk to...

The images of the West Side apartment where police found 19 neglected children were so bleak that they fueled outrage even in the White House. But the stories that unfolded...