Darlene Gavron Stevens

Indicted developer Michael Halikias should not be allowed to travel to Greece because he is a substantial flight risk, federal prosecutors said in a motion filed Monday in U.S. District...

If women could write a prescription for better health care, what laws would they pitch in Springfield first? That was the question posed to more than 100 south suburban community...

Nearly 100 acres of vacant Crete land that has been fought over in bankruptcy court for four years and figures in a pending federal fraud indictment got a new owner...

Like a child's growth chart, the seven editions of Dr. Spock's baby-care book plot changes in the author's philosophy about child care, as well as new problems faced by each...

Long after the children have left home, Dr. Benjamin Spock's parenting books--tattered and dog-eared from use--tend to earn residence alongside other family heirlooms. Some parents refer to the book, whose...

One day after undergoing quadruple-bypass surgery, Bishop Joseph Imesch of the Joliet Roman Catholic Diocese was reported alert and in good spirits Tuesday in Elmhurst Memorial Hospital, where his condition...

It may have come as a surprise to Tinley Park officials last month that an investment firm at the center of an FBI investigation is a part-owner of the New...

Dori Slattery extended two fingers that had been clutching an over-sized Fisher-Price box and grudgingly accepted a clipboard bearing a laminated copy of the Toys `R' Us return policy. The...

Every car trip, Bridget and Bill Collins do the ritual head count before venturing down the driveway of their Bedford Park home. "We're constantly counting to five," said Bridget Collins,...

Of the 30,000 calls that flooded the Y-ME breast cancer hot line last year, up to 20 percent were from women with advanced disease. The trouble was, counselors for the...