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Friday, Douglas County Sheriff's deputies responded to Mercy Medical Center regarding a man in the emergency room with stab wounds. Deputies found Gerardo Torres, 21, at the hospital with multiple stab wounds to the chest and abdomen. While deputies were...

The original Chelveston the Duck, a fowl famous for his antics on Ray Rayner's WGN-TV show, was almost someone's dinner. He was rescued from a poultry shop by the Animal Kingdom pet store, which supplied most Chicago-based animal "actors" from...

More than $5.3 billion worth of infrastructure projects were announced by Mayor Bloomberg last week. He also mentioned that the $300 million the projects will save taxpayers will be reinvested into other infrastructure projects that would otherwise be delayed by...

As he searched for a home in central Ohio, Carter Stewart was mystified by the scarlet and gray rooms in some of the houses he toured. It didn't take long for Stewart, who grew up in Atlanta, to figure out...

Chicagoans, their friends and family members took to the sky in relatively calm travel conditions Sunday, expected to be among the busiest flying days of the season. One of those maneuvering through the Thanksgiving cattle call at O'Hare International Airport...

Front gate buzzers at condos and apartments throughout the region went on the fritz when the 872 area code went into effect this month. The change requires 11-digit dialing -- 1, plus the area code and the seven-digit number --...

Stung by criticism that they didn't give enough scrutiny to last year's hastily approved, problem-plagued parking meter lease, Chicago aldermen vowed to scrub Mayor Richard Daley 's financial plans going forward. The City Council even passed an ordinance guaranteeing 15...

Young men find refuge but unnerve some neighborhood residents When Antonio Jones walks down Halsted Street in Boystown, he feels more at home here than he did in his old Garfield Park neighborhood, where he used to worry about thugs...

Recycling centers across California are closing, and scores of troubled youths are being tossed from "green" jobs onto unemployment rolls in the wake of Sacramento's raid on bottle deposit funds. California's recycling treasury, filled by consumers' nickel and dime deposits...

Growing ranks of U.S. citizens are heading to street corners and home improvement store parking lots to find day-labor work usually done by illegal immigrants. The trend is most pronounced in regions where hot construction markets have collapsed, says Abel...