Georgia Garvey

Rainy Kaplan ran her fingers over rows of brightly colored school supplies, stopping at a bulletin-board border that caught her eyes. Red habanero, green jalapeno and yellow banana peppers dotted...

Bank of America put on the block Monday a multimillion-dollar mansion once owned by former Rod Blagojevich fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, but the high-priced Wilmette house failed to attract any...

Temperatures reached a sizzling 91 and 92 degrees in different parts of Chicago on Sunday, coming off the heels of the second-coldest July in 67 years. With a heat index,...

A program that allows citizens to file anonymous complaints on the Illinois secretary of state's Web site about people misusing parking reserved for the disabled has netted more than 100...

A half-hour before the "Battle of the Sexes" softball game pitting professional male and female athletes, Chicago Bandits starting pitcher Eileen Canney marveled at the teeming bleachers of Alexian Field,...

A message from an apparent Harry Potter-loving vandal was scrawled onto about 80 stop signs in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa, where just below the word "stop," someone added Voldemort's...

A posse of "guerrilla gardeners" who flower-bombed a vacant lot in Evanston want to know who mowed down the wildflowers that sprouted. "We keep getting conflicting information," said Carla Hayden...

For the digitally inclined, Wednesday marks a cool spot in sequential history. At exactly 12:34:56, the time and date will be 12:34:56 7/08/09. That only happens once -- or twice...