William Recktenwald

The calls were put on hold as they flooded in, the 10 phone lines blinking like an airport runway. Two dispatchers, eyes glued to computer screens, whipped through well-rehearsed questions...

Although critics of the Brady bill say the federal legislation will not keep criminals from getting guns, proponents point to Illinois' law as a model for making it more difficult....

From the epidemiologists who track death rates to battle-weary emergency room doctors and nurses who patch up wounded children, there is a growing movement to push new legislative, educational and...

Chicagoans were four times more likely to be victims of violent crime last year than the average American, according to a Tribune analysis of new FBI data released this weekend....

For the most part, police and school officials have succeeded in securing Chicago high schools. But as several recent gang-related incidents have shown, security beyond the school doors is a...

Chicago police were trying to figure out what happened to a family of four Laotian immigrants whose bodies were found in their North Side apartment Thursday. The bodies, apparently a...

Stores drew iron bars across their windows, mothers tried to keep their children indoors, and police braced for the unknown. Then the bullets started flying. Nineteen people were shot, two...

Near-perfect weather Saturday and great racing teamed to draw 182 boats and more than 1,100 sailors to the Sailing World National Offshore One-Design Regatta and make it the biggest race...

On April 9, Tempo profiled John May, a young internist at Cook County Hospital who heads an effort to help curb violence through a series of dramatic posters targeting children...

No planes fell out of the sky onto Morton Grove this week. But a hoaxer with an especially depraved sense of the comical forced emergency crews and a number of...