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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A Chicago police detective who allegedly framed a man in the murder of a 3-year-old boy repeatedly sought sex from the man's wife after he had been jailed on the murder charge, a lawsuit filed Wednesday charged. The lawsuit also alleged that the same...

Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in "Kiss of Death" and became a leading man in "Broken Lance," "Two Rode Together" and 40 other films, died at his home in Roxbury after a long illness. He was 93. Widmark's wife,...

Once a relatively obscure slice of the real estate business, foreclosed homes that are now in the possession of lenders loom much larger as the economy flattens and housing sales stagnate. Across the country, federally chartered banks held more than...

For most Chicago Public Schools students, Monday represented a routine return to the hallways and books after spring vacation, a day to catch up with friends and buckle down for the homestretch of the school year. But for the students of Crane Tech...

By John Crook Zap2it QUESTIONS: 1) What future dirty dancer played a Confederate officer named Orry Main in the 1985 Civil War miniseries "North and South"? 2) Paul Giamatti plays the title role in the HBO miniseries "John Adams," but what future "St....