David Elsner

If you`re in Chicago at noon Friday, you can salute the World Champion Chicago Bulls at the Petrillo Music Shell. Or you can walk a couple blocks west and join...

The search for a new chairman of the bi-state committee that will select a site for a third regional airport could begin as early as this week, officials said Monday....

On Wednesday morning, Lynn Ulmer walked into the Alsip office where her sister, Leah, worked and asked to see her. There was nothing particularly unusual in that, police said. Lynn...

It was the recession. It was a tax revolt. It was that fewer people these days have school-age children. South suburban school officials cited all those factors Wednesday in explaining...

If the signs are any sign, one of the suburbs` most controversial trustees is in an uphill fight to win re-election. On the well-kept lawns that grace Oak Lawn`s 5th...

While most Americans reacted with relief and joy when the Persian Gulf ground war ended so quickly, the families and friends of two Chicago-area men were mourning the fate of...

Tanks rolling, artillery booming, troops marching-these are not the images that normally evoke feelings of relief. Still, the pictures of war that confronted Chicago-area residents Sunday elicited just that emotion...

Roy Powell says he sympathizes with soldiers in Saudi Arabia whose mouths turn to sawdust at the thought of hunkering down on a battlefield, wondering if the claustrophobic gas mask...

Some share the spirit of Christmas anonymously. Others do it in the glare of television camera lights. Such was Christmas 1990 in Chicago, where hundreds of volunteers spent part of...

Laventhol & Horwath, the nation`s seventh biggest accounting firm, is expected to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as early as Wednesday, sources said Sunday. Partners of the troubled firm, meeting...