Joseph Panfil sold his two-decade-old Racine Street loft office to a rebranded addiction-treatment nonprofit, freeing up cash for a 500,000-square-foot McKinley Park redevelopment.

Jacob Kiefor, a lifelong White Sox fan, called it the best day of his life after a front-row thumbs-up turned into a signed bat.

Charity Geisel, 52, died from blunt and sharp force injuries; her ex-boyfriend was caught in Indiana the same weekend.

Anthony Reed Jr. was exploring an abandoned rock quarry near the Old Joliet Prison with four friends when he fell. A fundraiser has already topped $16,000.

Drifting cars scorched tire marks into 111th and Western as residents flooded 911 lines over the weekend.

A 16-year-old was lured to a Vernon Hills maintenance yard, then beaten and robbed by four men. One suspect is still on the run.

Mickey and Minnie head south down Michigan Avenue on November 21 as the nation's largest evening parade lights over a million bulbs.

A 17-year-old was pumping gas when a 70-year-old man allegedly offered her money for sex, prosecutors say. He's already out of custody.

Forest Packaging will bring up to 60 jobs to a vacant Bowes Road plant, replacing space lost when Printpack shut down.

A sedan suffered major front-end damage in the Kostner and Congress Parkway crash; the cause remains unknown.

Nearly 300 attendees crowned a new Tall Queen and King at the Warwick Allerton, some at their first party where they weren't the tallest in the room.

Poet Fatimah Asghar keynoted the South Asia Institute's daylong debut, which packed in 23 writers and a closing DJ reception.

The village board voted 4-0 to move the long-stalled monument to the park where a WWII tank already sits at Toft and Orchard.