Gerry Smith

Albany Park When the Chicago River flooded in the 5100 block of Monticello Avenue, Police Lt. Joseph Porebski of Chicago's Albany Park District arrived at the scene to assist with...

As freshmen arrived on campus last week, Lake Forest College President Stephen Schutt proposed giving them a hands-on lesson in responsible drinking. Along with lectures and courses on the dangers...

Construction worker Nicholas T. Sheley spent years fighting inner demons associated with drugs and anger, family and acquaintances say. He could be quiet and kind, they said, and had made...

At Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, a sacred Jewish burial ground, there is a section near the Des Plaines River where the tombstones are sinking. Morris Kaplan's and Rose Neiman's...

Jurors weighing the fate of political insider Antoin "Tony" Rezko listened to the government's star witness, Stuart Levine, for more than three weeks, but it didn't take long for them...

A man shot his wife as she tried to flee their Bloomingdale home before killing himself, police said. Officers responded about 10:15 p.m. Monday to calls of gunshots in the...

It took about six months, but Joe Downing finally broke free from the pump. The Sandwich man recently converted his 1996 Ford Escort to run on electricity, shrinking the estimated...

They were two lives intersecting at a Red Line station crowded with rush-hour travelers. It was an appropriate setting for two women on the move, both fast approaching new chapters...

An Elgin man fleeing at least two police cars was killed when his car hit a semitrailer truck head-on in Hampshire, police said Friday. Ricardo Castillo-Torres, 21, of the 400...

Elizabeth Frostick's family of five gets by on less than $30,000 a year. They rent a three-bedroom apartment in Evanston, dress their children in used Gap clothing and get free...