Andrew Fegelman

Suburban voters were in an anti-tax mood Tuesday as they approved a referendum proposal to cut the Evanston City Council in half and rejected school tax hikes, including one in...

The largest GED testing center in the state at Harold Washington College remains closed following security breaches in the administering of the test, forcing hundreds of students to put their...

At first blush, it appeared that Thursday was full of capitulations for Richard Martwick, the reclusive Cook County schools superintendent who made a rare public appearance before the County Board...

Like birdwatchers packed on a stony point, media photographers and cameramen gathered Tuesday at the Cook County Building, hoping to record a rare public appearance by Richard Martwick, county superintendent...

County Board President Richard Phelan went after two traditional patronage havens-the Highway Department and the forest preserve district-to make many of the personnel cuts in his new county budget, but...

A school founded in the throes of the Great Depression would seem to be able to survive anything. But with costs of operating a school increasing and enrollment down, the...

There were 14 homicides in south suburban Harvey last year, more than in any other Chicago suburb, and the crime rate was nearly half again as high as it was...

The increasingly bitter campaign for Cook County sheriff took still another bizarre turn Wednesday as sheriff`s police were trying to identify an individual who impersonated a sheriff`s investigator while doling...

Embattled Stotler Group Inc. and two of its chief subsidiaries filed for liquidation in federal bankruptcy court Friday, admitting insolvable financial woes. The filings, under Chapter 7 of the federal...

The Illinois Supreme Court added another wrinkle Thursday to the legal quandary involving a suburban man`s attempt to force two of his children to be marrow donors for a third...