Imran Vittachi

Even in his 80s, Fred Pinkard could remember his lines. The actor could recite whole passages from Shakespeare's plays and other productions he had been in as a younger man,...

Nearly a year after Capt. Rogelio "Roger" Maynulet led his Army tank company into Baghdad, the former Illinois resident wrote in an internal army journal that commanders in Iraq had...

A City Council committee recommended rezoning a nine-block-long business corridor along East 61st Street as a residential area Wednesday, even after a busload of critics from the South Side voiced...

Strong winds gusting up to 35 m.p.h. fanned fires and whipped up havoc in the Chicago area Wednesday and Thursday. In Chicago's Noble Square neighborhood, winds spread flames to five...

Pfc. Gregory R. Goodrich faced his mission in Iraq believing he was saving a father or mother or husband or wife from having to go in his place. At 37,...

A squeezed supply of refrigerated shipping containers has caused shipping rates to rise 10 percent to 25 percent since last spring, pushing up prices for frozen and chilled food. And...

Michael Bertsche's precision fuel injectors and diesel engine components are flying out of his factory, as a weakening dollar makes American manufacturing more competitive. "We are winning business that might...

If Christmas cookies and eggnog kindle your holiday spirit, it might cost you more money this year to get in the festive mood. Egg prices are up--among the highest seen...

After student criticism that Northwestern University has been slow to address a recent string of muggings and assaults, the school's president has formed an emergency task force to improve safety....

Staff Sgt. Joseph P. Bellavia's family hoped his wish would never come true. Before his deployment, Bellavia, 28, told his wife, Christine, that he wanted to be buried in Arlington...