Bob Kemper

The Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate nomination spent the last Sunday of the primary campaign charting different routes to victory, with Loleta Didrickson calling in some big names to...

Democratic gubernatorial contender Jim Burns stepped up his criticism of rival Roland Burris on Friday, saying his record as U.S. attorney was better than Burris' "lackluster performance" as Illinois attorney...

U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde on Monday weighed in on the U.S. Senate primary that has divided the Illinois Republican Party, endorsing conservative state Sen. Peter Fitzgerald over the moderate candidate...

Arlington International Racecourse, temporarily closed this year following multimillion-dollar losses, probably never will reopen, the track's chief executive officer said Friday. "Racing is not feasible here anymore," CEO Scott Mordell...

State Rep. Miguel Santiago, facing federal charges alleging that he was paid by a government agency for work he never did, has been hired by Rosemont Mayor Donald E. Stephens...

Like most people studying the birth of the universe, David Schramm knew he was working in a golden age for his field--a historical moment when the science is bounding forward...

There is no Carl Sandburg to make poetry of its progress, no Richard J. Daley to harness its political clout, no Al Capone to make even its crime mythical. And...

Tucked between a dry cleaner and a hair salon, across the road from a Polish deli and a Chinese chop suey restaurant, is Mt. Prospect's only Filipino grocery. When Remedios...

There was a time, principal Dave Larsen recalls, when the free-lunch program in suburban District 59 was a dozen cold sandwiches stuffed inside a small cardboard box. Now, when the...

It stands 5 feet tall, sprouting huge trumpet leaves and spiny pods. For decades, it has been mostly known as the bane of Midwestern farmers, who annually unleash a flood...