Andrew Gottesman

Wielding the giant metal claw of his 45-ton link-belt crane, Hugh Heneghan spent Wednesday demolishing the Paxton Hotel in search of something he didn't want to find: the dead. "I...

A massive pre-dawn fire raced through a crowded North Side transient hotel Tuesday morning, killing at least 15 people and injuring more than 25. The blaze, at the Paxton Hotel,...

Like planets succumbing to the sun's gravity, the Adler Planetarium has joined a growing list of local and national museums that have bowed to economic pressures by deciding to charge...

Mark Francis had a temper so volatile it caused Michelle Yelachich to twice break wedding engagements with him. She was afraid of him and afraid for him, according to friends....

Carmen Maya's son answered the telephone Thursday morning and told his mother that it was the White House on the line. She thought a real estate agent was calling about...

The potential dangers of working the late shift at a fast-food restaurant never have bothered Faisal Abbasi, an 18-year-old manager of a Morton Grove McDonald's. There isn't enough time between...

They call it the Lanoff League, and they`ve bowled together every Christmas for the last 35 years. ''What else do we have to do?'' said Skip Lanoff, one of the...

The plan was supposed to be easy. Students at Schiller Elementary School would file into the auditorium Wednesday morning, and as their names were called, they would approach the stage...

Marianne Waller was nearing the top of an escalator at McCormick Place when the power went out Tuesday morning. ''The person I was with screamed,'' she said. ''It was very...

An area stretching from the museum campus on the north to 47th Street on the south, Ashland Avenue on the west and Lake Michigan on the east experienced the outage...