Barack Obama: Portrait of a pragmatist
Barack Obama packed his few belongings into his newly purchased but creaky old Honda and headed west from New York into a political and social battle zone. When the raw,...
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Race is sensitive subtext in campaign
The expected launch of Barack Obama's presidential campaign is still days away, but his quest to become the nation's first black commander in chief already is forcing a delicate examination...
City body hauler hauls in big fees
Police call them the body snatchers, and their invasion from Ohio began in 2004 when a Dayton company called GSSP Enterprises Inc. won a city contract for the grim but...
Prison near Dells on Ryan wish list
Prison is bound to be uncomfortable for George Ryan. But if the former governor gets his wish and is sent to the federal facility in Oxford, Wis., he might meet...
Mattoon, Tuscola on short list for site of `clean’ power plant
Two Illinois cities were among four sites chosen Tuesday as finalists for a $1 billion federal initiative to build the world's first virtually pollution-free coal-fired electric power plant. The cities...
Report: Cops used torture
Former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge led the torture of criminal suspects for two decades, coercing dozens of confessions with fists, kicks, radiator burns, guns to the mouth, bags over...
Report: Cops used torture
Former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge led the torture of criminal suspects for two decades, coercing dozens of confessions with fists, kicks, radiator burns, guns to the mouth, bags over...
Fithian’s rainbow? Locals hope so
This Vermilion County community that Honda is scouting for a $400 million assembly plant would make Mayberry look like a metropolis. There's no local school, no gas station, no hospital....
Experts say phone firms at law’s edge
The furor over the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' phone records intensified Friday, with one telecommunications giant slapped with a $5 billion damage suit for allegedly violating privacy laws...
Sacre bleu! No foie gras for you
Chalk up another first for Chicago, which on Wednesday became the nation's only combined nuclear- and foie gras-free zone. After passing a sweeping ban on public smoking in December, the...