Sara Olkon

For Moses Rios and scores of other children of racetrack workers, the 60-mile roundtrip from Arlington Park to schools in Cicero is a tiring reminder of how life in the...

Katie Merkel was desperate to leave a house party in west suburban Montgomery early Sunday. In the 15 minutes between 1:30 and 1:45 a.m., the Oswego High School freshman called...

The Bears were losing and it wasn't the end of the world. Bears fans had a good season to look back on, good seasons to look forward to, good parties...

Almost two years after winning a no-holds-barred campaign against incumbent Cicero Town President Ramiro Gonzalez, it appears current Town President Larry Dominick is not done fighting his former foe. Since...

Maan Alhesawi marked Saddam Hussein's hanging with Honduran cigars and vodka in Albany Park. By Saturday afternoon, the 35-year-old taxi driver's only regret was that the phone lines to Iraq...

Charmaine Gant's night began Wednesday with a call from her boyfriend saying he had been kidnapped for ransom on Chicago's West Side. By the time it ended, her baby had...

A slow-moving Metra train in Elgin on Friday slammed into a minivan with eight passengers after the driver apparently ignored crossing lights, killing two women and an infant, authorities said....

Eight BP employees at the company's Naperville research campus were sent to local hospitals Tuesday afternoon complaining of headaches and nausea after a strange odor was reported inside a campus...

In one incident alleged in an indictment, Cicero police officers beat a man and then ordered him to use his own shirt to wipe up the blood. In another, a...

Immigrants drove much of the Chicago-area's recent housing boom, making up more than half of the region's gain in homeowners from 2000 to 2005, according to a census analysis released...