Jack Houston

Republican U.S. Rep. John E. Grotberg, who represented the sprawling 14th Congressional District west of Chicago, died early Saturday in his St. Charles home after a 13-year battle with cancer....

McHenry County sheriff`s police continued their search Saturday for two teenage youths suspected in the shotgun wounding of a deputy late Friday. The deputy, Ronald Page, 31, of Wonder Lake,...

Christopher Rosenbarger, 8, the subject of a three-year custody battle, looked a bit shy as he arrived at O`Hare International Airport Saturday with his mother. The boy`s trip to Chicago...

An American Airlines DC-10 jumbo jet, bound from Chicago to Honolulu Thursday afternoon, was forced to return to O`Hare International Airport 41 minutes after takeoff because one of its engines...

Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, the Joliet priest who was held for nearly 19 months by Moslem terrorists, flew to Rome Tuesday night with a message from his captors for Pope...

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, in a column to be published Friday in the Archdiocese of Chicago`s newspaper, reaffirms his opposition to wording of a gay-rights ordinance brought before the Chicago City...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago ruled Tuesday that slain mobster Anthony Spilotro and his brother, Michael, will be denied a public church funeral because of their links to organized...

Carl Sandburg called Chicago ''the city of big shoulders.'' For years, some people believed those shoulders belonged to Arthur Rubloff, whose name, in giant letters, appeared on billboards on so...

The Chicago School Finance Authority approved a three-year financial plan Wednesday submitted by the Chicago Board of Education that projects a $27 million deficit for fiscal 1987. ''It was not...

Voters went out under the watchful eyes of law enforcement officials, poll watchers and the media Tuesday in the hotly contested 26th Ward on the Northwest Side as well as...