Robert Mitchum

The climate is so odd," Clint Eastwood once wrote about the world's most famous and influential film festival. He wasn't referring to the breezes coming off the Mediterranean. Rather, Eastwood was describing one hand of the Festival de Cannes, the...

The sound of gunfire has become so common in this neighborhood that when the downstairs residents of a two-flat in Little Village heard shots above them, they didn't call police. Later, when they heard the sounds of banging and rummaging, they still...

DNA test results released Wednesday show that the cougar police shot in Chicago last month is the same one that frightened a southern Wisconsin man in January, and researchers hope cutting-edge forensic techniques will reveal even more about the animal'...

DNA test results released Wednesday show that the cougar police shot in Chicago last month is the same one that frightened a southern Wisconsin man in January, and researchers hope cutting-edge forensic techniques will reveal even more about the animal'...

The sound of gunfire has become so common in this neighborhood that when the downstairs residents of a two-flat in Little Village heard shots above them, they didn't call police. Later, when they heard the sounds of banging and rummaging, they still...

Scientific research can often be a solitary pursuit, conducted behind closed doors. So for research assistant Erin Sackett-Hermann, the opening of the Field Museum's new people-friendly DNA Discovery Center will bring with it new exposure and new...

Scientific research can often be a solitary pursuit, conducted behind closed doors. So for research assistant Erin Sackett-Hermann, the opening of the Field Museum's new people-friendly DNA Discovery Center will bring with it new exposure and new...

A mother who was charged over the weekend with first-degree murder in the October death of her infant daughter was ordered held in lieu of $700,000 bail Monday. Chicean Crosby, 25, of the 7200 block of South Winchester Avenue wept at the hearing before...

As service resumed Saturday morning at the Red Line Cermak-Chinatown stop, officials released the names of the two who died Friday when a semi trailer truck slammed into the station at the height of rush hour. At least 21 were injured. The two, who...

An out-of-control semitrailer truck barreled off a Chicago expressway exit ramp during Friday's evening rush hour, careering through a busy intersection and slamming into a crowded escalator at the Cermak-Chinatown CTA train station. Two people were...