Flynn McRoberts

Diana Barun is eager to serve her country. Not the country of her birth, but the country of her heritage-a country wracked by civil wars since it declared its independence...

In an effort to frighten students sober as prom season begins, Elk Grove Village police staged a horrific re-enactment of a drunken-driving crash Wednesday morning, complete with screaming ''victims.'' A...

A league of their own: Real estate agents and restaurant owners are licking their chops as the opening nears for Sears, Roebuck and Co.`s new Merchandise Group headquarters in Hoffman...

A 46-year-old Schaumburg woman was repeatedly slashed in the face with a knife Tuesday night, police said. A neighbor, who the victim had recently asked to turn down his stereo,...

It took a matter of seconds: the 1985 Oldsmobile jumping the curb, plowing into a group of 3rd graders on a field trip and their adult chaperones, stopping only when...

To make war on the Loop flood, the city has turned to two soldiers. Brig. Gen. Russell Fuhrman broke through minefields in the jungles of Vietnam and commanded thousands of...

- September 1991 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. performs what was a seemingly simple procedure for the century-old company: driving two sets of wooden pilings into the floor of...

They were urban refugees, workers who typically toil in the heart of Chicago who now found themselves laden with paperwork and scattered to lands beyond the Loop. They were people...

It wasn`t even 6 a.m. Monday, but Bill McGing, the overnight boiler room engineer at the Merchandise Mart, already knew that this was no ordinary start to another workweek. Water...

As another day of testimony wound down Friday in the court-martial of Charles David Garner, the jury foreman did something that in a civilian court could have drawn a swift...