Bob Secter

Even under Commonwealth Edison's rosiest scenario, ridding the landscape of Zion Nuclear Power Station's twin reactors and the lingering radiation they have created over the years will take more than...

Whether delivery truck drivers are owed a paid lunch hour might seem the sort of question for labor and management to thrash out and not state lawmakers. But almost any...

Rep. Ralph Capparelli is one generous guy, so big-hearted that over the last two years he shelled out $3,269 cash in wedding and anniversary gifts to 15 happy couples he...

The hiring hall for merchant seamen on Chicago's Southeast Side was just down the street from a townhouse where nine student nurses lived. On the night of July 13, a...

It was clear from the outset that it was not to be Richard Nixon's night. The vice president had whacked his right knee earlier in the campaign, and an infection...

They were known as the "Go-Go Sox," hustlers who scraped together a 94-60 record less with bat-popping might than clutch pitching, flawless defense and jack rabbit speed on the base...

At 2:40 p.m. on this chilly Monday, the time of day when fidgeting youngsters count the minutes to the final bell, a billowing and blinding mass of flames, smoke and...

I am a stinky credit card customer, the kind of selfish lout who will snap it out at the sight of a bar code yet think nothing of abusing the...

World War II, which began with a day of infamy, ended with one of ecstasy. After Germany's surrender in May, all attention had turned to the Pacific theater, where Japan...

If Lawrence Bloom's indictment on federal corruption charges Tuesday was shocking, it was because of his reputation as the pillar of independence and integrity on the Chicago City Council, a...