Sarah Talalay

On the first Saturday of spring, Burt Lancaster was doing what comes naturally to most 12-year-olds: he was playing outside. But midway through what appears to be the bloodiest weekend...

Seven people-including five members of one family-died Sunday afternoon in a quick-moving blaze in a Wrigleyville apartment building that was allegedly set by a former tenant, police and fire officials...

While recognizing the need for a reconstructed Elmhurst Road between Golf Road and Prospect Avenue, the Village Board is opposing the Illinois Department of Transportation's current proposal to rebuild and...

Despite the backing of voters, and with a contentious four-way Republican primary race behind him, McHenry County Sheriff William Mullen can't relax yet. Now Mullen, who was appointed sheriff in...

Tim Shamoon saw a postal delivery cart in front of his three-flat on the 4900 block of North Wolcott Sunday afternoon and thought he had stepped into a parallel universe....

The director of Growing Stage, a failed children's museum and theater project, pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony theft charges in the staged burglary of $10,000 in computer equipment from the...

The appearance of Elgin-area Unit School District 46 on the state's financial watch list Wednesday was viewed by school officials as further proof of the need to pass a $172.8...

Two youths were shot to death Saturday in separate incidents of horseplay with guns that also resulted in charges against three other teens. Terrell Muse, 14, of 4518 S. Evans...

On the eve of the one-year anniversary of seven people massacred inside a Brown's Chicken & Pasta restaurant in Palatine, two events made it seem as though time had somehow...

Cook County sheriff's police were searching on Thursday for at least two men they believe fatally shot a 16-year-old Elgin girl and a 23-year-old man at the man's home on...