FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) - For weeks, investigators said they were searching for the killers of a small-town police officer known as "G.I. Joe." Thousands attended the funeral of Fox Lake Police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz. Many lauded him as a hero, t...

Forty-four paramedics, one police officer and one nurse were recently honored for heroic acts in the past year at a special ceremony at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital. "The delivery of health care is a team sport," Dr. Michael Ankin, vic...

Carpentersville man wins Cook of the Week Challenge Bill Hicks, who joked that his goal was "to incorporate butter, cream and bacon" into his dish, won the Daily Herald's fifth annual Cook of the Week Challenge Monday night at the Westin Chica...

An attorney for a Chicago man who claims he was wrongfully convicted of a savage North Chicago murder filed paperwork in court Tuesday to request a new trial. David Owens, an attorney with the Exoneration Project at the University of Chicago Law Sc...

It'll be early Sunday morning when about 6,000 runners in the third annual Healthy Driven Naperville Marathon and Half Marathon dash past the Naperville Country Club, through the streets lined by houses in the Westside Homeowners Association and aro...

CHICAGO (AP) - Adrian Peterson's legs, Blair Walsh's foot and Teddy Bridgewater's poise lifted Minnesota to a rare Windy City win. With no time to spare, either. Peterson ran for 103 yards and Walsh kicked a 36-yard field goal as time expired to lif...

• Gus Savage, a civil rights activist and journalist who represented a South Side Chicago district for 12 years in the U.S. House, died on Saturday, a day after celebrating his 90th birthday. His son Thomas Savage told The Associated Press the form...

A Chicago police officer's tattoo is a form of personal expression that might be misinterpreted by the public, a federal judge said, tossing out the legal complaint of three officers who argued they shouldn't have to cover up their ink while on the ...