A hauling overhaul
Not wanting to spend $600 on two new tires, Francisco Murasaya pulled his truck behind the line of drivers waiting to have treads cut into their rigs' bald tires. But...
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Bone-weary haulers raise risks on road
Hurtling down a darkened Indiana highway, Roger Kobernick pulls his 75-foot long rig into a truck stop just long enough to grab his one meal of the day, a thin...
School test data tardier than ever
A series of computer glitches, printing mistakes, labeling blunders and human error by school and testing officials have conspired to seriously delay the state's 2006 school report cards, making Illinois...
Cabbies, clerks put lives on line
Blood seeps from his hands and face. His skin burns from the knife that has slashed at him from the cab's backseat. He thinks he is dying like his friend...
Cabbies, clerks put lives on line
Blood seeps from his hands and face. His skin burns from the knife that has slashed at him from the cab's backseat. He thinks he is dying like his friend...
Poverty rates rise in many suburbs
Bertha Mares, a mother of four, has neither a job nor a husband. A quiet pragmatism settled over her on a recent afternoon as she waited 20 minutes for a...
Immigrant group taking a long walk
In a show of how far immigrants have moved to fulfill the American dream, scores of immigrant advocates will skip their barbecues and lakefront picnics this weekend to join in...
Our long commute just gets longer
The alarm rings at Mary Ellen Patterson's McHenry County home, and she's off--skirting the traffic jams at the high school, motoring down Lake-Cook Road, catching the 7:11 a.m. train at...
Inside Daley’s machine
When Mayor Richard M. Daley geared up for his 1995 re-election campaign, he was not dependent on the Democratic ward organizations that rallied city workers for the political machine of...
State urges district mergers
Illinois has one of the most fragmented, massive and inefficient education bureaucracies in the nation, and state officials--under pressure to put more money into schools but unwilling to raise taxes--are...