Cynthia Dizikes

For those wondering when the threat of the West Nile virus will be over in Illinois this year, Dr. Linn Haramis has a ready answer:"I usually plant Impatiens flowers in...

Even as a chemistry teacher in Chicago Public Schools, Karen Lewis made her students work hard to find answers, according to one of her former principals. She preferred the Socratic...

Summer may be drawing to an end, but the Illinois mosquito season is still flitting along at full swarm, according to state officials. Although the percentage of mosquito samples testing...

As Mayor Rahm Emanuel touted his anti-violence initiatives at a news conference Friday morning, bullets ripped across the 4200 block of West Wilcox Street on Chicago's West Side, striking a...

A 15-year-old girl walking home from school was shot in the abdomen Friday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, officials and family said. Tellissa Shields was walking with a...

Drew Peterson's defense team offered jurors its theory of how his third wife died, calling a pair of noted forensic pathologists Tuesday who testified that Kathleen Savio drowned in her...

When you go into a story about supposedly bog-loving bugs like mosquitoes during a summer marked by drought, you'd expect the risk of bug-born virus to be low, right? Well,...