A fugitive who was the subject of a nationwide manhunt by the FBI since July of 2005 was brought back from Mexico and arrested at O’Hare Airport Tuesday afternoon.

The second wife of Drew Peterson testified at a pretrial hearing Tuesday that he had threatened to kill her and said he could make it look like an accident.

A Chicago Fire Department lieutenant was charged with DUI after allegedly driving onto someone's lawn and plowing over a fire hydrant -- breaking it completely off -- before hitting a tree, driving over a stop sign and leaving the scene on the Southwest Side Tuesday afternoon, police said.

Days before Drew Peterson's fourth wife vanished in 2007, she told a divorce attorney that her husband thought she suspected he had killed his previous wife and she suggested extorting money from him to stay quiet, the lawyer testified Monday.

Six cops and their sergeant stood warming their hands in the parking lot of the Ogden District on the Southwest Side on a chilly morning last week.

A federal grand jury leveled eight new charges against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his brother Thursday in a move aimed at avoiding problems with a disputed law now being weighed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

A veteran Niles police officer was charged with theft and official misconduct for stealing nearly $2,000 from a dead man’s room at the Leaning Tower YMCA, prosecutors said.

A fearful Kathleen Savio in 2003 started sleeping with a kitchen knife tucked under her mattress so she could defend herself if attacked by Drew Peterson, a friend testified Wednesday.

A Humboldt Park neighborhood man who was under arrest by Rockford police allegedly stole a squad car and led police on a chase all the way to the North Side -- while still wearing handcuffs -- where he was re-arrested early Tuesday.

A key Chicago City Council ally of Mayor Daley resigned today after agreeing to a deal that calls for him to spend more than two years in prison for taking bribes while serving as an alderman.

Petland co-owner Mike Isaac said the man walked in about 6 p.m. Jan. 19, put the small bird under his coat, and ran right out again. The man was, however, captured on security cameras, and is described as possibly Caucasian, with short black hair, and of average height and weight.

James R. Zoske, 21, of 81 Country Club Drive, Bloomingdale, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of felony attempted aggravated robbery after he pretended that his left hand was a gun hidden inside his sweatshirt and used the ruse to try scaring the owner of an Elgin gas station into giving him money, a police report said.

A woman was wounded and an infant boy was injured by glass when a bullet struck their car Thursday night in the South Shore neighborhood.

A Cook County judge today acquitted two Chicago cops of planting drugs on a convicted felon outside his sister's home six years ago, saying that prosecutors didn't "come close" to proving their case.

Two men were ordered held on $500,000 bond each Sunday after Chicago Police executed search warrants for them Saturday morning and recovered a total of 16 guns -- including two loaded assault weapons -- and narcotics with an estimated street value more than $27,000.

The Rev. Alejandro Flores, who until recently served at Holy Family Church in Shorewood, had his first appearance in Kane County Court on Thursday. His attorney said the priest is expected to plead not guilty to the seven felony charges filed against him.

Police shot a motorist, critically wounding him, after he allegedly hit a Chicago Police officer with the stolen vehicle he was driving Thursday night in the West Side's Humboldt Park neighborhood.

A Chicago Police detective has been charged with theft of services and aggravated assault for allegedly pulling a gun on a cabbie in an off-duty dispute over an $8 fare last spring.

Months before she was found dead, a shaken and bruised Kathleen Savio told a co-worker how Drew Peterson threatened her with a knife in her Bolingbrook home and warned he "could kill her right there," the co-worker testified Tuesday.

SKOKIE -- A Chicago woman was found dead with a plastic bag over her head Monday in north suburban Skokie.

An irate taxi driver involved in a long-running dispute with two neighbors intentionally set fire to a Rogers Park high rise, killing one person and injuring five others on Thursday, prosecutors said.

Three teens were shot within a two-block radius in apparent drive-bys within minutes of each other in the South Side's Woodlawn neighborhood late Thursday afternoon.

A school bus driver charged with sexually assaulting a mentally challenged student before driving her home was ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail this afternoon.

Michael Cosmano and Milton Rodriguez were arguing over wages and working conditions at Cosmano's Northwest Side pizzeria when Rodriguez made the mistake of calling Cosmano "stupid," Cook County prosecutors said.