The captain of a barge was sentenced to six months in prison Friday for a negligent explosion that killed a deckhand and caused hundreds of thousands of gallons of a petroleum byproduct to spill into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in 2005.

The Bulls won 62.2 percent of their regular-season games when Derrick Rose and Jimmy Butler played together, going 28-17. Both players averaged over 20 points in the NBA playoffs.

Planet Fitness may be one of the strangest gym chains on earth. Decorated in purple-and-yellow, the gym stocks a plastic jug of free Tootsie Rolls and hosts free "bagel mornings" and "pizza nights" every month. To combat "gymtimidation," trainers w...

The daughter of slain Chicago police Officer Michael Flisk, an evidence technician, tearfully described in court Friday the pain she felt holding her father's lifeless hand, still covered in fingerprinting powder, after he and another man were shot...

Armed with a red rose for his husband, Vincent Cousineau walked along North Halsted Street in Chicago on Friday, cheering at honking cars celebrating the news that the nation's high court had struck down bans on same-sex marriages, effectively maki...

The majority of American households still own their homes, a fact that will remain true as far into the future as demographers and economists can see. But the balance of homeowners and renters has been shifting in the U.S. in ways that have already...