Charles Mount

Illinois Masonic Medical Center filed suit Tuesday against a man who plans to sue the hospital after allegedly sitting on a needle. The hospital is seeking an unspecified amount of...

The number of new divorce cases filed in Cook County in 1991 reversed a five-year trend and rose by 9 percent, at the same time raising a number of questions...

For a few minutes Tuesday, David Dowaliby was on his way to becoming a free man after 18 months in prison. But his taste of freedom proved fleeting when an...

A controversial plan to widen Lake Avenue between Sunset Ridge Road in Glenview and Laramie Avenue in Wilmette has been dropped because of opposition from both suburbs, Cook County Board...

At 48, Diane Beusch Davis was about to start a fresh chapter of her life, a future bright with almost storybook promise. On July 11, she had been awarded $1.5...

Taxpayers in some west and south suburbs can expect steep increases in their bills when they begin arriving in the mail next week, and that could bring renewed calls for...

A south suburban couple have contracted an unusual form of the HIV virus, allegedly from a blood transfusion the wife received in 1985 at South Shore Hospital, according to the...

The University of Chicago law school has hired its first black professor in more than 30 years, picking Cook County Public Defender Randolph Stone, U. of C. officials said Wednesday....

Police Supt. LeRoy Martin on Thursday placed blame squarely on one of his officers for releasing a suspect who had been free on bond for attempted murder after the suspect...

At first blush, it appeared that Thursday was full of capitulations for Richard Martwick, the reclusive Cook County schools superintendent who made a rare public appearance before the County Board...