Cornelia Grumman

As allegations of license-selling in the Illinois secretary of state's office intensified, Milwaukee prosecutors said Thursday they plan to reopen their investigation into a fiery crash that killed six children....

Republican Secretary of State George Ryan alternated Wednesday between defensiveness over the license-selling scandal rocking his office and anger at those he holds responsible for spreading a "patchwork of lies"...

The final deadline for nearly 3,500 truck drivers to retake the test for commercial licenses and learner's permits is Friday. But as of Thursday, only a fraction had been retested,...

In a summer that has brought little but sweat for Commonwealth Edison Co., the state's largest utility managed with few problems Tuesday to meet near-record demand from its customers amid...

It was supposed to be a hearing on how to create a national health-care identification number for every American. But skeptics just wanted to talk about the whether--whether the country...

Bringing local phone customers in Chicago more competition won't mean lower rates, executives from Ameritech Corp. and SBC Communications Inc. conceded Tuesday, but it will mean more choice of services....

The three most controversial numbers in the Chicago area have been chosen: 224. That's the area code that will be used if Ameritech gets its way and implements a so-called...

Even before the final results were tallied for Tuesday's election, women's groups were expressing dismay that their choices for governor next November were an anti-abortion rights Republican and a Democrat...

Talk of the color green Saturday wasn't confined to the Chicago River or the city's St. Patrick's Day parade. In the campaign for the U.S. Senate, it was the green...

Fighting crime, any police chief or criminologist will tell you, requires an arsenal of ideas. But to watch Illinois' Democratic gubernatorial candidates, you might think this complex question can be...