Jack Houston

At Whitney St., a restaurant in downtown Grayslake, they`ve been carting in bottled water to make coffee and to wash silverware, pots and pans. Customers also are eating off paper...

A record high temperature of 101 was set for Chicago on Friday, but indications are that residents are getting accustomed to the heat this far into the summer. Although the...

Ten people were arrested as police defused what they termed a ''near riot'' at a West Chicago carnival late Sunday. After officers stationed at the Railroad Days Festival attempted to...

Du Page County Board Chairman Aldo Botti hailed Saturday an agreement between Gov. Jim Edgar and Democratic legislative leaders to put a lid on county property-tax increases, saying it represents...

They hang out on street corners. They lurk near downtown office buildings. They cluster on the fringes of suburban corporate campuses. Beggars? Gangbangers? Pickpockets? No, they`re smokers, pushed about as...

C.J. Johnson and his co-workers at We-Go Greenhouse in West Chicago have an unusual way to cope with the blistering heat. They duck outside to cool off. ''Yeah, it`s pretty...

Only three years ago, it was about as hard to find a recycling program in the suburbs as it was to find somebody who walked to the grocery. Now, to...

Only the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, could clear the streets faster. During the running of the Bulls Wednesday night in Los Angeles, emergency calls to police will...

It`s 2:30 p.m. at the Homewood Public Library and Jenny Tromski, Julia Janowick and the rest of the crowd of regulars are there, as they are every day after school....

Picture a divided highway with three lanes of through traffic in each direction, a right-turn lane on each side of the intersection, two left-turn lanes facing each other in the...