An elderly man died Sunday following a crash in the North Side's Ravenswood neighborhood.

Blue Island police shut down a "Turn in Your Gun Day" Saturday organized by a mayoral hopeful.

Six men were murdered on the South Side between Friday morning and early Saturday.

An altercation on a South Side street early Sunday which may have been gang-related ended in the fatal shooting of one of the two young men involved.

Law enforcement officials this weekend have continued to seek answers as to why a man lured a Wheaton police officer to a bank parking lot, disarmed him, invaded the bank and ultimately killed himself after taking a dozen people hostage.

A 20-year-old man was critically wounded in a shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood early Sunday.

Susanna Homan: Even though Roger Ebert can no longer speak, his inspirational story has become a rallying cry to doctors and patients at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. A three-time patient because of thyroid and salivary gland cancer, Ebert was the guest of honor at the institute's annual Medicine Ball gala Saturday night, which attracted more than 400 guests to the Chicago History ...

Exclusive book excerpt from Sun-Times News Group reporter Joseph Hosey: Last October, Stacy Peterson disappeared. And with her disappearance, a national spotlight fell on Bolingbrook, the previously tranquil southwest suburb where the 23-year-old woman lived with her husband, Drew Peterson, and their children.

An elderly couple died early Saturday in an explosion that destroyed their Frankfort home and scattered debris across two blocks. The 5:30 a.m. blast was felt several miles away.

When she first became a scoutmaster in the late '90s, Boy Scouts leader Laura Dellaca didn't exactly blend in. "It was kind of unheard of for a woman to be a scoutmaster at that particular time," she says. After 11 years of leading Troop 990 at Our Lady of Victory Parish in Chicago, she and her boys are looking for a new home and new equipment.

Mayor Daley's plan to borrow $85 million to buy the campus of Michael Reese Hospital to pave the way for construction of a $1.1 billion Olympic Village has hit a snag. Sources say cost estimates for demolition and environmental cleanup of the 37-acre campus have come back 60 percent higher than anticipated -- $32 million, rather than $20 million.

A 4-year-old girl was recovering Saturday after being mauled by a neighbor's pit bull in the backyard of her Humboldt Park home.

BELLEVILLE, Ill.---- Look out Tiger Woods, 5-year-old Drew Gray's got game.

The Charge: Officer William Cozzi allegedly used a baton to beat a man handcuffed to a wheelchair in 2005. The Defense: Cozzi's attorney said he was remorseful and owned up to what he did.

President of the Police Board and a government relations attorney for the Perkins Coie law firm. Former St. Ignatius College Prep teacher and trustee. Former city planning commissioner. Board member of the Chicago Cultural Center Foundation. Lobbyist registered with the City of Chicago.

Take Gerald Callahan. In 2004, he handcuffed a bartender who refused to serve him. The city paid the bartender $15,000 to make his false-arrest lawsuit go away and Callahan was suspended.

The body of a 33-year-old man found in Lake Michigan on Thursday is believed to be that of a boater reported missing four days earlier, police said. Emergency crews and police Marine Unit officers found the body at Rainbow Beach near 77th Street.

The recent Democratic National Convention hugfest sparked optimism that top Illinois Democrats were coming together on a statewide construction program. But now the governor and the Legislature's two top leaders appear to be losing that lovin' feeling.

Who qualifies: Any student -- regardless of income -- can qualify for a federally backed loan from the lending arm of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission.