CHICAGO — Keep kids with concussions off the field, or your school could be forced to pay up. Chicago's City Council is sending that threat through an ordinance that could make local schools — public and private — liable for water and sewer charges...

Elgin Ÿ Jose Salgado, 39, of the 6100 block of North Campbell Avenue, Chicago, was charged Thursday with stalking and unauthorized video recording and live video transmission — both felonies — for following a female co-worker home in February a...

Ÿ Charges are not evidence of guilt. Under law, individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Arlington Heights Ÿ Thieves stole a portable fireplace in its original cardboard packaging from the front porch at a home on the 1900 block o...

A Schaumburg man faces a first-degree murder charge stemming from the April 2009 slaying of a Woodridge man on Chicago's west side, police said. Timothy Sinico, 22, of the 200 block of North Ashwood Drive, was charged Sunday in connection with the ...

A truck driver who injured four in a downtown Elgin crash in March 2010 may have been texting on his cell phone, a lawsuit filed in Kane County alleges. Erica Bernal, 26, of Carpentersville, is suing a Rock Island-based truck company and its driver ...

CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer has been shot and wounded while chasing suspects in a double homicide on the city's North Side. Police say gang investigation unit officers were conducting surveillance Saturday evening when they saw several people...

Authorities say an aggressive panhandler was killed and two police officers were wounded in an exchange of gunfire in Chicago's River North neighborhood. Authorities say the panhandler was pronounced dead late Wednesday afternoon at Northwestern Mem...