Jean Latz Griffin

U.S. Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) will announce that he is running for re-election from the 16th Congressional District at two campaign rallies this week, according to his staff. Manzullo will...

More so than their counterparts in movies or books or theater, the great TV characters become our intimates. It isn't because they are any more vivid or compelling--it's because they're...

The model of the U.S. Capitol at the entrance of the Lincoln Museum in Ft. Wayne, Ind., is unfinished, a crane still poised to place the final tiles on the...

Anne Kanengeiser has become a walking CD-ROM of Eleanor Roosevelt. She can name the private girls' school Roosevelt attended, list the causes she espoused and use the fact that her...

State Rep. Kevin Hanrahan (R-Northbrook), Friday became the third Republican state representative to announce he will not run for re-election in 1996. Hanrahan, 37, who was appointed in March of...

Surveys taken for Arlington International Racecourse refute a statement by Arlington Heights Village President Arlene Mulder that 80 percent of residents do not want a casino, track officials said Thursday....

Some would compare it to the difference between the NBA regular season and the playoffs. Or between watching a dress rehearsal and opening night of a Broadway play. No matter...

It's not often that a U.S. congressman, especially arch-conservative Republican Philip Crane, finds himself in the funny papers. But on Sunday, Garry Trudeau ran one of his trademark Whitehouse strips...

There's something to be said for the power of incumbency. That might explain this week's release of a report issued by Gov. Jim Edgar's Department of Revenue lauding Edgar's 1991...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dawn Clark Netsch has launched a new set of TV ads that continue to hammer away at Republican Gov. Jim Edgar by referring to the recent problems...