Chicago Fire Department officials said two people fell from a kayak in the Loop on Saturday afternoon.

As hundreds of frightened tourists fled Tunisia on Saturday, the North African country's leaders announced stringent new security measures in response to a massacre at a popular Mediterranean resort that left at least 38 people dead, nearly two-thi...

Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich met privately with Pope Francis for the first time Friday, the Vatican announced Saturday.

The shooting death of one escaped killer brought new energy to the three-week hunt for his jailbreak partner as helicopters, search dogs and hundreds of law enforcement officers converged on a wooded area 30 miles from the upstate New York prison t...

A 44-year-old woman was badly burned when an angry man entered his former workplace on the Northwest Side and set it on fire, police said.

Yvonne Zipter received a text Friday from her life partner informing her of the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, a ruling that - for people of a certain age - was a long time coming.