VOTERS NOW TAKE CHARGE
The telephone blitzes have ended, and suburban lawn signs get their last hurrah Tuesday as the Illinois primary arrives. Election officials are predicting a skimpy turnout that could be rendered...
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SUIT ALLEGES DRAKE NO LONGER JEWEL OF A HOTEL
Long the grande dame of Chicago hotels, the Drake Hotel, the 535-room Gold Coast palace where Queen Elizabeth II once stayed, is having its image tarnished by an insider. Outside...
JUDGE REFUSES TO DISMISS ABORTION-CLINIC SUIT
A group of pediatricians gained a major victory Wednesday when a judge refused to dismiss their suit seeking to prevent an abortion clinic from opening in the building where they...
DOCTORS TRY TO BLOCK ABORTION CLINIC
In an unspectacular office building in Arlington Heights where parents take their children to be treated for the usual mundane childhood illnesses, there's a rather unusual battle brewing. It all...
SYSTEM SOFTWARE HIT WITH SUIT
Chicago-based System Software Associates Inc. has been sued by Owens-Illinois Inc. for fraud and breach of contract over computer software that Owens-Illinois claims does not work, according to a lawsuit...
TAX CAP MAKES ITSELF FELT IN COOK
Cook County issued its first tax rates under the constraint of the new property-tax cap Friday, and it produced good news for taxpayers: The cap reduced the collective revenue take...
SUIT MAY LIFT ANONYMITY ON INTERNET
For better or worse, Internet surfers have always felt they could ride the waves in anonymity, saying just about anything without fear of reprisal. But that soon may change. An...
DOGS FINALLY HAVE THEIR DAY
From Hyde Park to Lincoln Park, canines have been declared unwelcome in condominium developments. But in a case involving one of Chicago's best-known addresses, the John Hancock Center, a judge...
COOK DEER CAPTURE TO BE REVIEWED
Under pressure from animal rights activists, the Cook County Forest Preserve District Tuesday agreed to investigate its use of a controversial method for capturing deer that critics say is inhumane....
10-YEAR FALL LED TO WANE’S FINAL HOURS
When Edwin Keith Wane strode into Esh Pharmacy in Barrington looking for a pharmacist job almost a decade ago, the owner was so impressed with his understanding of medicine that...