Howard Witt

Chicago`s suburbs, some planning major road and sewer repairs and many facing sharply higher insurance costs, are seeking an average increase of 11.8 percent in their property tax levies from...

As many as 70 Chicago firefighters are being investigated for allegedly listing a Southeast Side trailer park as their address but not living there, the executive director of the city`s...

With smoke still rising from the charred skeleton of the Arlington Park Race Track grandstand, track officials on Thursday began talk of rebuilding Illinois` premier horse racing facility, but said...

The pregame scene in the White Sox locker room was highly inscrutable. Star player Carlton Fisk, clad in T-shirt and jockstrap, was being introduced to Chinese diplomat Ni Yaoli, clad...

Why $15,000? Of all the questions surrounding the extortion-killings of a wealthy Palos Heights bank director and his wife--and there are many--that one especially keeps pricking at investigators and neighbors...

The results of an autopsy released here Thursday revealed that two Wheaton Central High School students, found dead Monday at a remote campsite in the Rockies, had been shot repeatedly....

Hypodermic needles, syringes and empty medical boxes littered the dry shallow end of the partly drained Fischer Park swimming pool in Gary Monday --mute testimony to the unsuccessful effort by...

Dump trucks began hauling the remains of 121 homes and 43 businesses out of this tornado-battered town Monday as stricken residents started trying to put their lives back together. There...

Former Du Page County Regional School Supt. Harold C. Wright and his successor, Supt. James W. Smith, were indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday in connection with the misuse...

State laws requiring annual audits of county financial records appear to leave a large hole when it comes to the office of regional school superintendent, state officials conceded Thursday after...