Gerry Smith

A day after discount carrier Skybus Airlines announced plans to file for bankruptcy, Mayor Richard Daley said Saturday the future of Gary-Chicago International Airport will be its cargo operation. The...

Glenn Weiler sounded like he was delivering a eulogy, speaking in the past tense used by arborists who now deem the ash tree's demise inevitable, its enemy unstoppable. "Ash was...

Thomas J. Maloney lives on a quiet street in the west suburbs. The 82-year-old reads books and writes letters, takes walks around the block and spends time with his wife...

While answers remained elusive about what drove a graduate student to open fire last week in a crowded university lecture hall, many turned to faith Sunday as they mourned the...

Steven Kazmierczak checked into the Travelodge in DeKalb early Monday afternoon and spent two days there, smoking cigarettes, taking cold medicine and drinking Red Bull and Gatorade. Before leaving to...

In a winter that authorities say has become especially deadly for snowmobile riders, a St. Charles man died early Thursday after becoming trapped under a snowmobile, three days after another...

A gunman led five women into the back room of a Tinley Park clothing store Saturday morning, killed them, then walked out the front door and disappeared. Police said there...

An Oak Forest man set a fire that killed his pregnant daughter, son-in-law and young grandson because he was upset over his daughter's marriage, prosecutors said Tuesday. Subhash Chander, 57,...

Less than a day after learning his mother had been killed in an auto accident near her Lombard home, astronaut Daniel Tani was swabbing surfaces on the International Space Station,...

Inside her Lombard home, Rose Tani kept a shrine to her astronaut son filled with newspaper clippings of his recent launch, photos of him holding his two children and a...