Bob Secter

In the beginning, there was The Season, and it was good. But apparently not good enough, so basketball has evolved into America's first year-round professional sport. There's The Preseason, The...

Al's Excellent Adventure began Wednesday with a strange predawn vision and a little white lie. Still floating from the victory party for his Cinderella primary campaign, Al Salvi stumbled into...

But for the hum from the filter pumps in the gleaming rows of fish tanks, Paul Kriks' voice was the only sound in his Naperville pet shop. "We gave up...

Elvena Lloyd-Duffie broke both hips and several ribs in a car crash and then spent 5 months in a wheelchair. From that awful experience two years ago, the 63-year-old Westchester...

While Chicagoland was under clouds Friday, a beam of sunlight seemed to follow U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, the general chairman of the Democratic Party, whose grin kept getting bigger every...

About 12,000 Chicago high school students who will be 18 years old before the March 19 primary are being encouraged to register to vote as part of a campaign announced...

Ald. Ray Frias (12th), who hasn't exactly been a fixture around City Hall since his name surfaced in connection with Operation Silver Shovel, turned up there Monday and fielded questions...

If Mayor Richard Daley were looking for a silver lining in the political wreckage of Operation Silver Shovel, it might be this: His tight grip on the City Council should...

When President Clinton talked Monday night of peace and duty and honor, he struck a chord with Bob and Carol Letson. After watching Clinton plead his case on national television...

Actually, Stephen Tokoph, a federal employee, confesses he wouldn't mind a couple of days off. "It would be nice to stay home with the kids," said Tokoph, a clerk for...