Charles Leroux

This Christmas, the Oak Forest Coin Club suggests, say it with currency, tokens, ingots, World's Fair medals and more. An excellent place to shop for such gifts, the club notes,...

Twenty-three people died of the heat on this date, but the death that drew the most attention was that of a 31-year-old Indiana man who, on his birthday a month...

For a city that sits beside one of the world's largest sources of fresh water, Chicago's drinking water in its early years was scandalously bad. The water, drawn mainly from...

A note to Stephen A. Douglas, which was handed to him in Chicago on July 24, 1858, seemed to offer a bad deal for the politician. His rival for a...

In an interview in May, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin talked about his sense of life after death. "If you try to live a good life and love the Lord," he said,...

A no less weighty authority than the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Md., part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has decided that Norm, who sat...

The fourth Thursday of each month, American Legion Palmer Post 65 meets in the banquet room of the 85-year-old Major Hall on Chicago's Far West Side. The first of the...

TV's most unlikely sex symbol finally puts his behind on the line Dennis Franz celebrated his 50th birthday by showing America his bare behind. As Det. Andy Sipowicz on ABC's...

Two years ago director John McNaughton and his partner, Steve Jones, seemed on the verge of a career breakthrough. After impressing a number of critics in the late '80s with...

Is the Kevorkian project dead?" Dr. Harold Klawans, asked rhetorically. "Not yet. Unlike most things with Jack, the project is never dead! Klawans, the Chicago neurologist and author, saw his...