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Jeff Mayes

The former box office manager of the Chicago Opera Theater is charged with stealing more than $100,000 in ticket receipts over a 3 1/2-year period.
It was 45 degrees in Chicago at noon Thursday, and temperatures may not get that high again until sometime next Tuesday.
A drivern who led police on a wild chase along I-65 in NW Indiana eventually ran into a squad car, crashed into a wooded area and escaped on foot.
Round Lake Beach woman charged with killing her 6-year-old son, then taking his body on a train to visit relatives in Chicago, according to police.
Lawsuit seeks to keep west suburban Speedway station closed until it completely cleans air and sewer contamination from leak that led to explosion.
A man was killed and two others were wounded, including a 12-year-old boy, in a shooting Thursday night at a Starbucks in the Uptown neighborhood.
Three people have been charged in connection with an “accidental” shooting that killed a 16-year-old Amundsen High School cheerleader Sunday evening.
Emergency crews responded after a construction crew struck a natural gas line Tuesday near a busy north suburban shopping mall.
When police tried to pull over a Chicago man who a 911 caller thought was following them in a vehicle, the driver struck one of the officers with his