Bob Kemper

The name made the man. And the man made the most of the name. Over the course of the life of George Walker Bush, his name and all it symbolizes...

Not a single voter has turned out. Not a single ballot has been cast. Not a single candidate has been elected. And already, the April 13 Illinois election is one...

Cook County Forest Preserve District officials said Thursday that they have temporarily stopped paying jailed recreation supervisor Robert M. Kelly, though they have not decided whether to allow him to...

A top Cook County Forest Preserve District official awaiting sentencing on felony drunken-driving charges asked Tuesday to be granted a leave of absence to avoid being fired from his perk-filled...

Snow in the Chicago suburbs is black and white. If towns don't get much of the white stuff, their budgets stay in the black. Last winter, they sang the praises...

After suffering two setbacks at the hands of anti-tax groups, educators in the northwest suburbs say they are growing increasingly concerned that some "fanatical" groups are trying to undermine public...

State Rep. Robert L. Bergman (R-Palatine) was listed in critical but stable condition Tuesday night in Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge after shooting himself in the chest in an...

Lake County State's Atty. Michael Waller said Friday that his office will investigate whether North Barrington village trustees violated state law when they met secretly in a private home and...

Nearly two dozen high school students, sitting around surplus desks, dialing borrowed phones, are huddled in the Evanston campaign headquarters of Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat making her first run for...

Democratic secretary of state candidate Jesse White is accused of being "X-rated on pornography" in a commercial that is being aired statewide on Christian radio stations by a conservative pro-family...