Flynn McRoberts

Peter Fitzgerald, a candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, said Monday he will file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging that rival Loleta Didrickson accepted...

Just as the miserable weather has driven people indoors and in front of their television sets, the state's voters are being hit with a flurry of another kind: Campaign ads...

In the late 1980s, Richard Seed, tall and imposing, walked into a Glenview venture capitalist's office with a plan: With $35 million they could control the world's supply of fishmeal...

Stunned Chicago area reproductive specialists are wondering which--if any--of their colleagues have promised to work with Richard Seed on a human cloning clinic he has said he will set up...

As a sort of welcome-wagon gift for the first family to move into the Robert Taylor Homes on this date, Mayor Richard J. Daley presented James Weston with flowers. Handing...

From the bleachers of Wrigley Field to the plush seats of the Lyric Opera, Chicago has long been a center of real entertainment with real performers, an unaffected city that...

The suicide of Amanda Wallace--who died Sunday, three days after strangling herself in a Downstate prison cell--was the last, gruesome chapter in the chaotic life of a woman whose murder...

A public housing high-rise hovers in the background and battered apartment buildings litter many of the surrounding blocks. But the sign on the corner of East 44th Street and South...

Chicago's latest victory celebration for the Bulls brought out a mix of exhilaration and, in scattered cases, violence Friday night. Nowhere was that more evident than the emergency room of...

Chicago kicked up its heels in joy over the Bulls NBA Finals clincher Friday, but the revelry again turned ugly in some parts of the city. While many were raising...