The City Council wants to grill police Supt. Jody Weis in the wake of a rise in violent crime that spilled out of the neighborhoods and into the heart of the Loop during last week's Independence Eve fireworks show.

Two gunmen shot a security guard early this morning in the Far South Side's Washington Heights neighborhood.

The system for funding Social Security is "a disgrace" because it forces young workers to pay into a program that is unlikely to benefit them in its current form, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said this week, wading into politically

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama shrugged off a crude comment aimed at him by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, accepting an apology for a remark Jackson made as he contended that Obama wasn't speaking to issues important to the black community.

South suburban Orland Hills Mayor Kyle Hastings and the Village of Orland Hills are not to blame for a fatal drunken driving crash that claimed the lives of two high school students, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Going after the women's vote, Democrat Barack Obama chastised Republican John McCain on Thursday over his opposition to an equal-pay Senate bill, his support for conservative-leaning Supreme Court justices and his abortion-rights objections.

The American Medical Association on Thursday issued a formal apology for more than a century of discriminatory policies that excluded blacks from participating in a group long considered the voice of U.S. doctors.

Bond was denied today for the man accused of stabbing and killing his wife in a north suburban Lincolnshire parking lot, then fleeing to Northwest Indiana.

A man convicted of killing a Chicago Police officer more than three decades ago was denied parole Thursday.

A grand jury has indicted an Alaska legislator on bribery andconspiracy counts in an ongoing federal investigation of corruptionthat already has led to convictions against three former Alaskalawmakers.

Alton Logan -- imprisoned 26 years for a murder another man had confessed to -- will have to wait a little longer to find out if prosecutors plan to retry him for the crime.

The AFL-CIO is mobilizing union members who are military veterans to work against Republican presidential candidate John McCain and other office seekers it opposes, officials said Thursday.

Finding no evidence of an accident, state inspectors have contacted police to investigate further how a woman died in a shredding machine in June.

Former White House adviser Karl Rove defied a congressional subpoena to testify Thursday about allegations of political pressure at the Justice Department, including whether he tried to influence the prosecution of a former Democratic governor of Alabama.

Campaign officials say Republican John McCain raised more than $22 million in June for his presidential bid. That's McCain's best month yet. He ends the month of June with nearly $27 million cash on hand, according to campaign officials.

President Bush signed a bill Thursday that overhauls the bitterlydisputed rules on secret government eavesdropping and grants immunityto telecommunications companies that helped the U.S. spy on Americansin suspected terrorism cases.

Bond was denied Thursday for a north suburban teenager charged with the child abuse death of his pregnant girlfriend's 11-month-old daughter.

A North Side man has been charged with home invasion and sexual assault for two incidents last month in the Rogers Park neighborhood.

We wanted to know what you thought of Rev. Jesse Jackson's comment about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, saying he wanted to "cut his n**s off" after hearing speeches on morality that Obama has given at black churches. Here's what

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is apologizing for disparaging remarks he made about Barack Obama's relationship with African American church-goers, caught on camera during a break in a Fox News interview.