Bob Secter

More than 100,000 grieving Chicagoans meet Abraham Lincoln's funeral train here and file past his casket. After holding the nation together through its darkest hours, Abraham Lincoln celebrated the end...

It was billed as the battle of Meigs Field, but the less charitably inclined might come to think of it as the $2.7 million snit. Months of snarling, posturing and...

Once upon a time, big clients of Chicago Title Insurance Co. could look forward to Christmas-season martini luncheons. And Cook County court personnel, vital to the company's real estate title...

Only a trickle of the curious took the time Monday to pass by the special collection of pictures and mementos of Harold Washington's life on display at the downtown library...

The Illinois Institute of Technology on Thursday announced a record-setting $120 million donation that one outside observer described as "a stunning gift." The $120 million--from corporate giants Robert and Jay...

The images were at once incongruous and perfectly suited to the moment and the man they honored: A Hebrew psalm sung by a church choir, rabbis offering eulogies before a...

In the hush of a cathedral, at the front of a line more than 1,000 people long, a hand reached out and touched the white fabric that draped over the...

Fair-haired, crisply suited and unflappably polite--even with his five apple-cheeked tykes in tow-- Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Al Salvi seems a walking, talking poster child for the wholesome, conservative family-based...

No matter how stirring the words of Colin Powell or how poignant the tributes to Ronald Reagan, the Republican National Convention appears to be no match for the remote control,...

Prompted by the pipe bomb explosion at the Olympics, local bomb-disposal experts are stepping up preparations for the Democratic National Convention here with an emphasis on far more exotic weapons...