Douglas Holt

Northwest Cook County voters showed Tuesday that they were in no mood for tax hikes, rejecting pleas for more money from every public agency that asked. Proposals for large tax...

Anthony Porter, whose exit from Death Row last month focused national attention on capital punishment, has returned to jail. Porter turned himself in to authorities Tuesday afternoon after arrest warrants...

A top Cook County Forest Preserve District official, who has held his job despite eight convictions for drunken driving, was sentenced Tuesday to 3 years in prison by a judge...

Depressed and angry, Martin Aguilar drove the mile to his estranged wife's Palatine apartment early Monday, entered with a key and found her sleeping in bed with another man, police...

It was one of the Chicago area's more brazen shootings in recent years: a 14-year-old Elgin boy gunned down in a suspected gang crime by a masked assailant while sitting...

After years in an economic deep freeze, the brawny, blue-collar towns that encircle Chicago--Aurora, Elgin, Joliet and Waukegan--are hot again. Aggressive and sometimes involuntary annexations have sparked turnarounds, to the...

As Chicago-area residents continue to chip their way out of the Blizzard of '99, a certain age group seems conspicuously absent. Young people. Kids with shovels, wrapped head to foot,...

Ask who is to blame for Cook County tax bills running nearly three months late and you get pointed fingers, mumbled answers about a messy process made more complex by...

From Sheboygan, Wis., a young farmhand named Henry Busse sent a letter to his parents in his homeland of Germany. The year was 1848. "Mother and Father," he wrote. "I...

For a glimpse of the future merging of cable television, telephones and the Internet, one need only look to Arlington Heights. The picture, while promising, is still a bit fuzzy....