Ex-police chief’s pal indicted
Frank Milito, a convicted felon whose friendship with former Chicago Police Supt. Matt Rodriguez cost Rodriguez his job, was arrested Friday on charges he paid employees with cash skimmed from...
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Nader still a gadfly in place he calls home
Long after he became the nation's best-known consumer advocate and then a presidential candidate, Ralph Nader kept a hand in the affairs of his boyhood home. In this proud but...
Along the pizza trail
In a quixotic search for the perfect slice of pizza, master baker Peter Reinhart crisscrossed the Atlantic, threading his way from the cafes of old-world Italy to the classic parlors...
3 untamed acres
Nearly every day, she passed it on her way to work. Strewn with litter and tangled in weeds, the slip of vacant land juts into the lake at the northern...
TEMPO UPDATE
What do you do with those perfectly good clothes you no longer wear -- the trousers that grew a little too tight and sweaters that never left the shelf, the...
Vietnam vet an old foe of Kerry
John Thomas Burch Jr. has been fighting the Vietnam War on many fronts. An official at the Veterans Affairs Department, he has also overseen a lucrative but little-known veterans fundraising...
Foes lash Kerry for Vietnam War words
As Sen. John Kerry's campaign gains momentum, conservative critics are attacking his anti-war activism in the years after his return from Vietnam, saying Kerry slandered veterans with his 1971 Senate...
Humanitarian work turns into servitude
Clothing collection boxes aren't the only way Tvind raises cash in the U.S. Since the 1980s, the Danish organization has found reliable moneymaking machines in its hundreds of American volunteers....
Blurred vision
Ted Lewis was summoned to Denmark to meet the guru. An idealistic 30-year-old who wanted to work with the poor around the world, Lewis played a minor role in the...
A new probe into the mysteries of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre
We all know what happened in the dimly lit garage at 2122 N. Clark St. on that chilly Valentine's Day morning 75 years ago. Newspapers from coast to coast ran...