Arrests just the latest in 2-year narcotics investigation targeting famously violent gang, far-flung distribution networkFour alleged Latin Kings set out from Joliet on Monday to rob what they thought was a Chicago stash house loaded with bricks of cocaine.

Downers Grove agrees to return 50% of sales tax to Packey Webb Ford until 2022A car dealership will get 10 years of tax rebates after a vote by members of the Downers Grove Village Council.

Prosecutors say men, both 18, were trying to rob Wheaton woman in St. LouisTalking on her cellphone while walking toward her car, Megan Boken became the target of two teens looking to rob someone on a Saturday afternoon in St. Louis, prosecutors said Friday.

Officer describes finding bodies of wife, three children: 'Oh my God'As his family lay shot dead in their Ford Expedition, one daughter clutching a stuffed animal and a Harry Potter novel, Christopher Vaughn was at a hospital complaining about investigators ruining his cowboy boots, prosecutors said Monday.

The man who woke up Blagojevich says city's corrupt behavior 'hasn't modified significantly'With Chicago FBI chief Rob Grant retiring after 29 years with the bureau — after all those high-profile political corruption and Outfit cases — I had to ask him to tell the story.

Officer admits robbing gang members, faces 19 yearsA veteran Chicago police officer sighed heavily and wept as he pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring with leaders of the Latin Kings to rob the gang's rivals of cash, drugs and guns, often while on duty.

Trio accused of attacking man on Addison Street platformPolice promptly nabbed three Chicago men who ambushed and beat a man while trying to rob him on a North Side train platform early Saturday, prosecutors said.

Man charged with attempted murderAn off-duty police officer shot a man who tried to rob him Thursday in Dolton, authorities said.

Research suggests that, among adults, males make up as many as 1 in 4 people with anorexia, bulimiaRob hated to run. But he hated to stop even more.

Job-training group suspended from state, county grant programs over spending questionsA south suburban mayor's taxpayer-funded nonprofit has been suspended from state and county grant programs over questions about its finances and accounting, the Tribune has learned.

Firm had appointed an acting president and CEO last weekRob Pullen focused on wireless carrier customers and international expansion during his four years as chief executive officer of Naperville-basedTellabs Inc.

Preservationists working to restore 1-room building, turn it into museumEunice Ebel Andreas used to carry her lunch in an old syrup can to the one-room Ford School in McHenry County in the 1920s.

FBI quietly on alert: 'Chicago has become a more high-profile target, we all know that' When Chicago's FBI boss, Rob Grant, leaned toward a microphone at a NATO briefing for business leaders, the talk to that point had been about summit events and the city's global image, the annoyance of street closings, and the possibility of protesters breaking windows in the Loop.

Keith Herrera helped rob drug dealers, but also wore wire to incriminate colleagueThe last former Chicago police officer to be sentenced in one of the worst misconduct scandals in department history was given just two months in prison Friday for taking part in three robberies while a member of the once-elite Special Operations Section.

A longtime Tribune employee was killed on his way to work early Monday when he was struck by a wrong-way driver on the Bishop Ford Freeway, a crash that closed all inbound lanes for five hours.

Michael Bambouyani allegedly crashed his SUV into another vehicle repeatedly after arguing with that car's driver, authorities sayA 25-year-old Chicago man faces a litany of charges arising out of an alleged attack Saturday night when, according to prosecutors, he repeatedly crashed his 2000 Ford Explorer into another vehicle on the city's Northwest Side.

Terrance Ford, 15, and Aanwar Barbour, 16, accused of aggravated criminal sexual assault, kidnapping and robberyTwo teenagers were charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting a young Highland Park woman after she became separated from friends outside a Northwest Side theater onNew Year's Eve and wandered drunk into a taco restaurant across the street.

Most think nation's economy is improving, but many have a gloomier view about the situation closer to homeGloria Lamar sees signs that the nation's economy has taken a turn for the better. Her 401(k) retirement fund is recovering. Her job is stable. Last June she even felt confident enough to buy a new car — a 2012 Ford Fusion. Nothing fancy, just reliable and good on gas.

A reputed Chicago mobster was found guilty Thursday of plotting while in his 70s to rob an armored car and to break into the family home of a deceased Chicago Outfit boss.

Actor Rob Lowe will sport a graying mustache when he plays Drew Peterson in a made-for-TV movie airing across America on basic cable this weekend, but the real Drew Peterson has his work cut out for him if he wants to smirk along with the performance.

Third septuagenarian faces trial that could begin ThursdayReputed mobsters Joseph Scalise and Arthur Rachel pulled off one of the more memorable heists in Chicago mob lore, donning disguises to rob the egg-shaped Marlborough Diamond from a London jewelry store.

3 seniors also face charges of planning armored car heistThe trial of three senior citizens — two with reputed mob ties — abruptly halted Tuesday just as jury selection was about to begin.

Police seek more suspects in robbery that turned deadlyThe shooting that killed Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis last month started as a simple plan to rob an Austin neighborhood convenience store that quickly went awry, Cook County prosecutors said Saturday.

$100 chances being sold to win rehabbed house Pulling into a Ford Heights subdivision in a black Chevrolet Malibu, Mayor Charles Griffin notes the four youths on a corner, likely selling drugs.

Lawyer plays recording for jailed client held in wife's deathDrew Peterson's criminal defense lawyer, Joel Brodsky, said he spoke to his jailed client on the phone Thursday morning and played him the just-released online trailer of the upcoming Lifetime movie "Drew Peterson: Untouchable."

Suspects arrested as they allegedly plotted to rob drug cartel members in BerwynThe plot was like something out of a TV crime drama — a small gang called the Belizean Bloods would allegedly rob more than 100 pounds of cocaine stashed in a Berwyn garage by Mexican drug cartel members.

Security guard was fatally stabbed and shot on West SideA man out of prison three months was charged with shooting and stabbing to death a security guard while trying to rob a gas station on the West Side, Chicago police said.

Widow of victim in 2009 fatal robbery says justice system worked, but 'nothing will ever be the same'A man who had been on parole for murder was found guilty late Thursday in the fatal shooting of an elderly man he was trying to rob in a restaurant parking lot on Christmas Eve two years ago.

Victims' car was stopped in center lane with lights off for unknown reasons when struck; no indication alcohol was a factorFamily members were searching for answers Sunday night after a woman, her son and a friend were killed on the Bishop Ford Expressway when their stopped car was struck from behind.

Livery driver LaRoyce Southall says he wrested a knife from a passenger who tried to rob him and he may have even stabbed the fleeing attacker. But Southall lost two fingertips and suffered deep gashes to his hands during the struggle.