Douglas Holt

A 29-year-old woman walking along Illinois Highway 134 after visiting a number of taverns was struck and killed by a car Tuesday night, authorities said. Susan Storgaard of Blue Island...

Many communities bet that legalized gambling will add up to a jackpot of jobs, spin-off developments and money to local government coffers. The flipside of legal gambling is less obvious,...

A fire in a non-nuclear portion of Commonwealth Edison Co.'s Zion power plant Sunday caused the shutdown of one of the plant's reactors, officials said. The 30-minute blaze that started...

A freak accident that left a 30-year-old man dead of carbon monoxide poisoning and a 22-year-old woman hospitalized is prompting Gurnee officials to consider revisions in local housing codes governing...

Police on Monday were investigating the death of a 3-month-old baby who died over the weekend, apparently from head injuries. Investigators said Mariah Bass was not breathing when police arrived...

U.S. Rep. Philip Crane's fiercely conservative views were once so influential in Republican circles that he was encouraged to make a brief run at the GOP nomination for president. But...

The official story on the politicians bringing riverboat gambling to Chicago and several suburbs, including Lake County, was offered Tuesday by Gov. Jim Edgar, who said he has not yet...

A proposed ordinance that would ban the sale of firearms and forbid possession of automatic and semiautomatic weapons will be discussed Monday night by village officials. The issue will be...

Monday is the last day to register to vote before the March 15 primary election, in which candidates for national, state and county offices will be chosen. A number of...

For Chicago-area motorists-beleaguered, jostled and jangled-the question is eternal, but it gets asked with increasing frequency this time every year: Why, in this age of stealth technology, space probes, supercomputers...