State questions library’s costs
Former Walt Disney designer Bob Rogers offered an unusually brief response last spring when explaining how a live actor portraying a fictional Civil War soldier vanished into thin air at...
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Hostage’s neighbors fear: `This one is ours’
Surrounded by hooded men hoisting assault-style rifles toward him, a LaPorte, Ind., businessman being held hostage in Iraq pleaded for his life in a video shown Wednesday on the Al...
Mayor’s son reporting for duty
Just months after receiving a graduate business degree from the University of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley's son, Patrick, is joining the U.S. Army with the full support of his father--and...
Obama off to Washington
U.S. Sen.-elect Barack Obama on Sunday will take his first dip into the political cauldron of Washington, a place of oversize egos and intense partisan drama. It may be his...
Obama makes case for `common ground’
Less than a week after the Democratic Party suffered major electoral losses across the nation, it was Barack Obama, a U.S. senator-elect who has never held national office, who appeared...
Keyes presses Catholic voters
Illinois' U.S. Senate candidates spent much of Halloween at churches Sunday, but Republican Alan Keyes was the one who openly mixed his faith with politics as he declared that any...
Hopefuls making last dash for votes
Some top Illinois Republican candidates turned to special intervention--both human and divine--to save their troubled campaigns in the final weekend before Tuesday's vote. Alan Keyes, the controversial GOP Senate candidate...
Senate debate gets personal
Battling a critical baseball playoff game as much as themselves, U.S. Senate candidates Barack Obama and Alan Keyes on Thursday attacked each other's notion of morality, Christianity and even the...
Obama spreads his influence
In a sign of the ever-expanding political influence of Democrat Barack Obama and the weakening position of veteran U.S. Rep. Philip Crane, Obama is dispatching a bulk of his volunteer...
Keyes riles state leaders with remark
Senate candidate Alan Keyes stridently defended his statements about the vice president's gay daughter Wednesday even as Illinois Republican leaders expressed reactions ranging from dismay to disgust. Keyes told a...