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Chicago elevator inspectors failed to perform more than three-quarters of their required annual inspections last year, resulting in about $772,040 in lost inspection fees, according to an audit released Wednesday by the city’s Office of Inspector General.

As Nik Wallenda plans to arrive in Chicago on Wednesday to prepare for his tightrope walk across the Chicago River this weekend, a variety of restrictions are being announced, ranging from bridge closures to a ban on drones.

In a suburb the Tribune found was arguably the area's most lawless, Harvey's City Council has defied the mayor and invited the sheriff to assess a Police Department long plagued by scandals and sloppy casework.

Some real estate agents thought the brick two-flat at 7244 South Prairie Ave. in Chicago's Park Manor neighborhood would be a quick sell. After all, it was the place crime boss Al Capone and his family once called home.

UPDATE: Wildlife enthusiast Steve Patterson has a second trial set for February in the case of his eagle rescue.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration will not refund $7.7 million in red light camera tickets it collected after quietly lowering the yellow light standard, the city's transportation chief said Tuesday.

With Election Day fast approaching, Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn is seeking to inoculate himself against criticism he hasn’t done enough to jump start Illinois’ economy, while Republican challenger Bruce Rauner is trying to make the final week of the campaign about the Ebola virus.

Fifth-grade teacher Carol Linderman was standing on a picket line Monday when she allowed herself to imagine the day when Waukegan's seemingly interminable teacher strike finally ends.

The company that operates the Divvy bicycle-sharing program in Chicago is being sold, the new owner announced Tuesday.

Two dozen people suffered minor injuries when a Chicago-bound Amtrak passenger train collided with a semitrailer at a crossing about 30 miles north of Lafayette, Ind., officials said.

An ice arena owner who got a rent deal has given the mayor $164,500 since 1999, a Tribune investigation has found.

Confronted with questions about a flurry of red light camera tickets stamped with yellow times below the 3-second minimum, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration said the fluctuation of hundredths of a second was normal — imperceptible to anyone behind the wheel of a car.

Chicago's red light camera program was beset by "fundamentally deficient" City Hall management and inconsistent enforcement, according to a limited inspector general review released Friday that failed to solve the mystery of suspicious ticket spikes exposed by the Tribune.

A Tribune examination of overturned red light tickets revealed evidence that the city of Chicago has quietly cast a wider net to snare drivers since switching camera vendors earlier this year amid a bribery scandal.

Albert W. Isenman III was an award-winning instructor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and later the school's director of Custom Executive Programs.

Ronald Muehlfelt's family business was in the highly specialized field of moving houses and shoring up sagging structures.

Like most farm kids, Nick Modaff grew up doing chores before and after school, and during summers from dawn to dusk. On school days, he'd wake at 5 a.m. to milk the cows, then clean up and have breakfast before boarding the school bus.

Sister Catherine Elizabeth "Katie" McHugh spent decades as a teacher and leader in Chicago's Catholic organizations, and was a force for change in areas such as nursing home care, equitable housing and health care.

Saying she will not be bullied by politicians, a Maine nurse is giving the state an ultimatum: lift her Ebola quarantine by Thursday or she will disregard the restrictions and go to court.

Authorities on Wednesday started investigating what caused an unmanned U.S. supply rocket to explode in a fireball moments after liftoff from a Virginia launch pad, destroying supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station.

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A U.S. Department of Homeland Security official who ran an investigation of a prostitution scandal involving Secret Service agents in Colombia in 2012 resigned after he was suspected of visiting a prostitute in Florida, the New York Times reported.