Police say after questioning a suspect and witnesses they do not believe a Vietnamese man who drowned after being pushed into a Lake Michigan harbor was the victim of a hate crime. "It just appears to be kind of a random act," said Lt. Anthony Ricci...

A Labor Day crash on an expressway southwest of Chicago killed a teenage girl and an adult man, and injured 12 others -- all temporary workers on their way home from a job. The victims were occupants of a van that flipped over after the driver lost ...

Some of the moves made by Mundelein High School District 120 to save money -- trimming programs, letting class sizes rise -- were difficult to make. But the payoff is the district's third consecutive balanced budget, and for that district authoritie...

The blotter Des Plaines • Schuyler Sherard Lauderdale, 25, 11127 S. Longwood Drive, Chicago, was arrested around 12:45 a.m. Aug. 22 and charged with possession of marijuana after an officer stopped his car for an equipment violation on the 2600 bloc...

Schaumburg's special events coordinator Roxane Benvenuti seems to have a knack for these things. While it might seem to some like a no-brainer to invite returning soldiers to be grand marshals for the village's Labor Day parade, Benvenuti makes sure...

An armed gunman barricaded himself inside a bank on the city's North Side Thursday morning, and police were trying to determine if he was holding hostages. The robbery of First Commercial Bank was reported to police at 9:42, and when officers arrive...

St. Charles • Teodulo O. Tiro, 29, of 1726 Howard St., was arrested at 9:04 a.m. Monday and charged with driving on a suspended license, driving without insurance, operation of a vehicle with registration suspended for emissions and failure to reduc...

Two armed robbery suspects remained at large Tuesday after evading several police departments in a car chase a day earlier and disappearing into the Wood Dale Grove Forest Preserve. The chase happened after a Monday afternoon robbery at Salgados Jew...