Tom McCann

Parishioners discovered spray-painted graffiti Sunday on a side wall of St. Christina Catholic Church on the Southwest Side, further stoking tensions over St. Sabina school's membership in a mostly white...

Cooling centers were open around the clock; thousands of folks sought air-conditioned relief in libraries, movie theaters and shopping malls. Brooke Paugh, on the other hand, hit the jogging path,...

A 20-year-old Mt. Prospect woman was found shot to death Friday morning in the Wheeling townhome where she had been living as a nanny for a family with three young...

As any recent Boeing-watcher could attest, such popular perks as tax breaks and competitive leases often play the starring role whenever a company considers a move or expansion. But now...

As police searched the off-campus apartment building where Eastern Illinois University student Shannon McNamara was found beaten and strangled, the man they would eventually charge with the murder spent hours...

Ignorance and fear are the essential ingredients of the vile disease called racism. Ignorance and fear can only be eliminated through knowledge and experience. Avoidance is not a remedy. Exclusion...

A pregnant woman being questioned for shoplifting at a Wal-Mart store pulled a gun from her pants Tuesday and shot three employees before police fired 21 rounds of their own,...

Classes will be canceled for at least a day this week for thousands of Illinois high school freshmen, sophomores and seniors so that juniors can take the state's new standardized...

The man bouncers heaved out the door of JB's Pub in Elgin was angry and drunk. The man who returned more than an hour later was still angry, but now...

Fighting invasions on two fronts, agriculture officials in the city and suburbs set out their strategies Wednesday for battling two tree-killing insects: Asian longhorned beetles and gypsy moths. In Chicago,...