Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday signed a measure into law that will make it a felony to post sexually explicit videos and photos of another person online without his or her permission.

Mayoral challenger Jesus "Chuy" Garcia promised to show "unprecedented levels of violence in Chicago" during a Monday news conference attacking Mayor Rahm Emanuel's record on crime, but instead used a narrow set of statistics that dates back only four years.

It's difficult for Cherise Felters to talk about that day in early September when her youngest child came out of surgery. Felters stood in a room at Rush University Medical Center, consoling her son, who at the sight of his little sister began to cry.

The woman who says a Northern Illinois University police officer sexually assaulted her described in court Monday how she turned over text messages — some of which are now missing — to the officer's superiors at the campus police.

The family of a brother and sister struck and killed by a Metra train in August in Chicago are suing Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Metra, saying they failed to repair a large hole in a fence used by residents to cross the tracks.

Chicagoans can once again trade Christmas trees for free mulch.

A steel beam collapsed at a Loop construction site Monday, sending three iron workers spilling to the ground and injuring a fourth worker standing nearby, officials said.

It may have sounded like gunfire, but what caused hundreds of people to scatter at Chicago Ridge Mall over the weekend was apparently the sharp clang of pots or lids at a restaurant, according to police.

A new Illinois law provides funding for kidney transplants for immigrants here illegally, as well as the annual medications needed to maintain the organs.

A Michigan judge will be asked to decide Monday whether a 94-year-old former Winnetka teacher charged with molesting children should be evaluated for mental competency at jail or at his home, where he is receiving hospice care, according to his lawyer.

Chicago has the nation's largest red light camera system and the shortest allowable yellow lights — a unique and dangerous combination that makes rear-end crashes more likely across the city, a Tribune investigation has found.

Nearly half of the Chicago red light cameras included in a new Tribune study did nothing to make drivers safer and may have caused an increase in injury-related crashes.

State child welfare officials have stopped sending juvenile wards to a troubled Rockford residential facility following Tribune reports that youths inside the center were assaulted and lured into prostitution.

State child welfare chief Bobbie Gregg on Thursday faced sharp questions from former juvenile wards in the wake of a Tribune investigation that revealed hundreds of reports that youth were assaulted or sexually abused in residential treatment centers funded by Illinois taxpayers.

A passionate advocate for the falsely accused and an attorney dedicated to fighting injustice, Jane Raley helped overturn convictions of men and women who had spent years behind bars for crimes they did not commit.

Michael Wynn, a star football player at Evanston Township High School during the mid-1960s, played defensive end at the University of Nebraska and was drafted in the eighth round of the 1970 NFL draft by the Oakland Raiders.

The Rev. Johnnie Colemon, the influential founder of one of Chicago's largest congregations, Christ Universal Temple on the South Side, died Tuesday, Dec. 23, according to her family and church officials.

During nearly four decades representing the Far North Side 50th Ward, Bernard Stone was known for memorably outspoken performances at City Council meetings, for his part in the tumult of Council Wars and for building a steel barrier along Howard Street that became known as “Bernie's...

Family members of those aboard AirAsia Flight 8501 collapsed in agony Tuesday as images of debris and a bloated body flashed across Indonesian television screens, proof that the plane crashed into the sea two days earlier with 162 people on board.

The number of law enforcement officers killed by firearms in the U.S. jumped by 56 percent this year and included 15 ambush assaults, according to a report released Tuesday.

Rain and wind lashed the deck of the burning ferry tossing in the Adriatic Sea, and passengers were fighting for the last places on the only lifeboat. Natasha and Nassos Tsonas stood with their two sons amid the chaos, and the only thing left seemed to say goodbye.

A New York congressman who pleaded guilty to tax evasion just days ago has announced he'll resign from office next week because he would not be able to give the job his full attention anymore.