Five families have been displaced following a house explosion caused by a raging fire Saturday evening in west suburban Cicero. Cicero Fire Chief Jeff Penzkofer said investigators suspect a gas ...

Five families, including 10 adults and nine children, were displaced and are being helped by the Red Cross, fire officials told WVIT-TV and other outlets. The cause is being investigated.

At The Times and elsewhere, he wrote about wrongful convictions, fake methadone clinics and the five powerful Mafia families in New York. By Clyde Haberman Selwyn Raab, an investigative reporter ...