George Papajohn

Four prison guards remained hospitalized but were in good condition Thursday following a fire Wednesday in the Pontiac Correctional Center started by three men on Death Row. Prison officials were...

Charles Connor, a Will County candidate for state`s attorney and self-described reformer of the county Republican Party, looked at the early election results Tuesday night and saw himself ahead, but...

The danger was over, she had been told, but fear lingered Sunday for Sandy McDaniel like the smoke from the still-smoldering chemical warehouse site that had gone up in flames...

South suburban Ford Heights, which last year saw its plans for a $500 million trash incinerator go up in smoke as part of an international scandal in tax-free municipal bonds,...

Blending like the voices of the choir and the congregation, the voices of celebration and struggle sang out as one Monday inside the 1st Church of Deliverance-Spiritual on the South...

In Wauconda, PCBs and other pollutants poured into a stream and contaminated residential drinking wells. In South Chicago Heights, cancer-causing vinyl chloride was detected in a municipal drinking well. In...

Federal approval of funding for a controversial mail-sorting facility in Palatine has been delayed at the request of postal management-to the delight of village officials. ''We think that`s very encouraging...

Nick Souleles was anticipating a celebration Sunday night, but it wasn`t because the Princeton University senior was turning 21 at midnight. It could more appropriately be called a belated Rhodes...

Inside a chapel in the shadow of the Henry Horner Homes, bundled against the relentless cold, 300 tiny voices rose above the clatter of the Lake Street ''L'' and the...

Around 6:30 a.m. Monday, the hearse bearing the body of Mayor Harold Washington is scheduled to leave a funeral home to begin a day of ceremony that will include a...