Barbara Mahany

Jeanne Simon, mother of the bride, wife of the presidential candidate, was giggling. The bride, 26-year-old legal-assistance lawyer Sheila, was in the bedroom closet unpeeling a plastic dry-cleaning bag from...

The Oak Brook homeowner allegedly responsible for a year`s delay in the dredging of Salt Creek to reduce the hazard of flooding has refused to allow state crews onto his...

The decision by a New Jersey judge last week terminating the parental rights of the natural mother of Baby M may settle the question of who rears the 1-year-old, but...

Carl ''Spitz'' Channell, a little-known political fundraiser who had access to President Reagan, Vice President George Bush and other White House officials, is emerging as a crucial figure in the...

Six Cook County Hospital doctors outvoted five administrators and county board members on a review committee Thursday in support of a doctor with AIDS who wants to continue treating patients...

As officials of Cook County Hospital debated whether a staff physician diagnosed as having AIDS should be allowed to care for patients, others responded with sharp criticism Tuesday to the...

Downtown Chicago merchants and police are bracing themselves for the invasion Friday of 1 million gift-returners, sightseers and motorists--an urban tradition that has failed to materialize for the last two...

In downtown Wheaton, the streets were silent. The Christmas lights twinkled like so many illuminated cobwebs on the trees along Front Street. It was a Monday night, the week before...

Corpses rise out of coffins, blood drips from a ghoul`s hand and smoky vapors curl around gravestones--that`s as scary as community leaders hope Halloween will be for all the little...

The Coalition for Political Honesty and three Du Page County residents filed suit in federal court Monday against the county`s Board of Election Commissioners, challenging the board`s refusal to certify...