After four years of vault-emptying archival releases and scattered retrospective tours, Wilco got back to business on Thursday night and owned the Internet (music division) for a few hours. Their first album of new material since 2011 suggested the...
Colorado theater shooter James Holmes was convicted Thursday in the chilling 2012 attack on defenseless moviegoers at a midnight Batman premiere after jurors swiftly rejected defense arguments that the former graduate student was insane and driven ...
The father of a Calumet Park woman who died in a frenzied Lake Shore Drive crash in January is suing the driver, a well-known local DJ, alleging wrongful death.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel once again tried to write "the next chapter" for Chicago Public Schools on Thursday, this time turning to a trusted ally and political insider he hopes can repair the damaged district.
The photographs capture the aftermath of one of Chicago's worst disasters: rows of sheet-covered bodies inside a temporary morgue, two women crying while clutching a baby in a blanket, a Coast Guard crew hauling a woman out of the river, the Eastla...
Prosecutors in Texas called for a grand jury to review findings of an investigation into the death of a Naperville woman in a Texas jail after family members on Thursday questioned the ruling that she died by suicide.
Miles away from the Colorado courtroom where James Holmes was found guilty of murdering a dozen people in a darkened theater, Karen Lavin cried as she watched a live stream of the verdict from her office in Crystal Lake.
A piece of the Cubs' future will arrive much sooner than anticipated as they embark Friday night on their second-half quest to earn their first playoff berth since 2008.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's decision to borrow for costs such as debt payments, bank fees and penalty payments on old deals gone bad - the kind of bills cities typically pay with operating funds - will cost Chicago more than $500 million in interest over ...