Flynn McRoberts

It`s autumn, and at high schools across America, the air is thick with the talk of football. But at places like the Chicago Academy for the Arts, rooms are cluttered...

As a Du Page County grand jury formally opened an investigation Friday into the Sept. 4 murder of Jayne Kelly, 38, a judge in Cook County extended his order barring...

Just as Rev. William I. Joffe was finishing a rather stormy four-year stint at St. Joseph`s Catholic Church in Harvard, the priest claimed a net worth of more than $2.7...

Despite a Navy magistrate`s order that he be released, an Army soldier charged in his wife`s slaying remained in the brig Monday after an Army appeal of the judge`s ruling,...

Far from the cruises off the Baja peninsula or the prime view atop Hawaii`s Mauna Kea volcano, 5-year-old Brian Thompson tried to glimpse the eclipse through a viewer fashioned from...

A new proposal to build a Fox Valley Tollway and commuter rail line with both government and private financing has renewed questions of whether state officials are serious about gathering...

Despite concerns that a threatened labor strike could delay construction of the new Merchandise Group headquarters for Sears, Roebuck and Co. in Hoffman Estates, village officials said Friday that such...

Wednesday night Mark Wilkinson stood in an Illinois farm field, chatting amiably with a local airport owner about the weather and about flying. Thursday afternoon Wilkinson stood in a Cook...

Pupils from Plum Grove Junior High School in Rolling Meadows won an event at the National Science Olympiad last weekend in their first trip to the competition. But they got...

A bit of Illinois` past and future have collided in a farm field outside of Elgin, and the result could be a rare glimpse at the lives of the area`s...