Jeff Long

Attorneys for the City of Chicago plan to sue companies that put lead in paint decades ago, seeking cash to help fix a problem that continues to harm children and...

Natural gas rates for Chicago and North Shore residents struggling with record bills this winter will drop more than 5 percent next month--a drop in the bucket compared with the...

Winter's brutal home heating bills could be repeated next December, as higher natural-gas prices are likely to linger through 2001, gas industry analysts said Tuesday. With that dire forecast, government...

As the Chicago area shoveled out Tuesday from the first major blast of wintry weather, passengers on Metra's three Union Pacific commuter lines continued to experience delays because of frozen...

One day after a Commonwealth Edison circuit breaker exploded at a key substation, producing a massive downtown blackout, Mayor Richard Daley on Monday called on ComEd to accelerate system improvements...

Environmental officials screened four homes and the tires on as many as 50 vehicles near an alley in Stickney after a retired fire captain taking out his trash discovered a...