Wheeling police say foul play is not suspected in the death of a 16-year-old Wheeling boy whose body was found this morning near Canadian National Railway tracks below a Lake-Cook Road overpass. Police said they were dispatched shortly after 7 a.m....

Forty-four years ago this week, 16-year-old Pamela Maurer left a friend's house to buy a Coke at a nearby McDonald's. It was a short walk from their neighborhood on the south side of Woodridge, less than three-quarters of a mile. But she never retur...

HOUSTON (AP) - Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain battered large...

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - One of Nevada's most notorious convicted murderers, dubbed a 'œblack widow killer,'ť said after being released from prison Friday that she did not kill her millionaire husband 25 years ago in Las Vegas, and plans to use ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities on the hunt for coyotes in downtown Chicago after two reported attacks, including one where passersby said they had to pull a wild canine off of a 6-year-old boy who was bitten in the head, captured one animal Thursday nig...

CHICAGO (AP) - DNA tests to determine if a coyote captured on Chicago's North Side is the same animal that attacked a 6-year-old boy will take weeks to complete, a city animal control official said Friday. Jenny Schlueter of the Chicago Animal Care ...

Frequilibrium release show with Arbor Creek, Jack Bodie: 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 10, at Cubby Bear, 1059 W. Addison St., Chicago. (773) 327-1662 or cubbybear.com. Spies Who Surf (featuring Tommy Klein) with The Amazing Heeby Jeebies: 7:30 p.m. Friday, ...

From a plan to improve schools in one town to proposals to allow recreational marijuana sales in two others, DuPage County voters will weigh in on eight referendum questions during the March 17 primary election. Here's a look at the questions that w...

The man who struck and killed Downers Grove North junior Elizabeth "Beth" Dunlap last February pleaded guilty Thursday to aggravated driving under the combined influence of alcohol and drugs, and to reckless homicide. Joseph Kucharski of Naperville ...

Local officials are advising people how to avoid encounters with coyotes after two people were bitten Wednesday in Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times reported a 32-year-old man walked into Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago Wednesday evening...