Carol Gilchrist, 80, stood by the edge of the Chicago River on Saturday and recounted how her mother nearly drowned in it. Then 3 years old, Marie Homola, Gilchrist's mother, clung to her father's neck as he tread water a century ago during what's ...
Joseph Campbell's body lay in a pool of blood on a West Side sidewalk as the sun began to rise early Saturday morning, hours after he had been fatally shot in the abdomen and right shoulder.
Sitting in more than 365 feet of water for 116 years, one of the most well-preserved shipwrecks in the Great Lakes was found last month. The Michigan Shipwreck Research Association, a group devoted to exploring, researching and documenting Lake Mic...
As one Chicago suburb struggles to cope with chronic overcharging by its "smart" digital water meters, another is ramping up random testing after finding that some of its meters claimed usage when not even hooked up.
Lockport Mayor Steve Streit was dumbfounded when state workers suddenly packed up exhibit pieces and closed the Illinois State Museum in the city's downtown July 1 without informing him, and he vowed to reopen it.
St. Charles took a back seat in this week's episode of "Donnie Loves Jenny", as Donnie Wahlberg, Jenny McCarthy and her son, Evan Asher, pack up the Los Angeles house that Wahlberg bought in 2008 to share with his two sons after his divorce from ac...
Prompted by Donald Trump's rants about Mexican immigrants and his comments questioning Sen. John McCain's status as a war hero, readers have emailed me with a question:
Twenty Marines and two Navy corpsmen were in the middle of an otherwise mundane task, just checking their equipment after a training mission, when the silver Mustang convertible came barreling through the gates of the reserve center on the banks of...
