Cindy Schreuder

Extreme cold on Tuesday further disrupted the already sluggish beat of everyday life, and frustration was beginning to show through from bus stops to City Hall. For the second straight...

Chicagoans are well versed in the history of their blizzards, of what happens when all that snow gets dumped on the ground, hampering the movement of the region's planes, trains...

In the late 1980s, Richard Seed, tall and imposing, walked into a Glenview venture capitalist's office with a plan: With $35 million they could control the world's supply of fishmeal...

Stunned Chicago area reproductive specialists are wondering which--if any--of their colleagues have promised to work with Richard Seed on a human cloning clinic he has said he will set up...

The temperature soared to 106 degrees at Midway Airport on this date, a Thursday, setting a record for Chicago. The temperature is officially listed as 104 degrees, as measured at...

After days of anxious anticipation, a watching world focused its eyes Wednesday on seven tiny newborns in a hospital in the heartland of America. With members of her church praying...

As the 3,500 townspeople here wait to see whether their population will grow by seven with the anticipated birth of septuplets, a group of doctors is weighing the optimal time...

For generations, America's medical schools have largely been bastions of prestige, challenge, opportunity and idealism. Getting in to med school was one of the elite goals of modern academia, and...

During the past year, the Russian space station Mir has had enough crises to fill a Star Trek episode: a fire, oxygen supply problems, a crash with another spacecraft, dwindling...

President Clinton on Monday backed legislation that would ban insurance companies from discriminating against healthy people for diseases that may lurk in their genes and perhaps in their futures. The...