Jerry Shnay

A Cook County judge on the verge of retirement has reversed her previous ruling against a controversial south suburban composting operation in a decision that could force a lengthy delay...

In the almost two decades since the body of 16-year-old Roberta Anderson was found in a Will County cornfield with 61 stab wounds, sheriff`s investigators and Naperville police never wavered...

(This is one of 8 stories and 16 tables associated with the release of the 1992 Illinois school report cards for city and suburban schools.) For the second time in...

A proposed amendment to the Illinois Constitution that would force the state to pay for more than half of the cost of public schools was headed for defeat late Tuesday...

Developers, asserting that the impact fees they pay to local governments are inconsistent and unfair, are trying to push a measure through the General Assembly that officials of fast-growing suburban...

A 15-hour standoff between police and a Chicago Heights man ended early Saturday after a police SWAT team stormed the house in which the man had barricaded himself and found...

Labor Day in Chicago was a time for picnics and parties as milllions spent the holiday weekend basking in balmy weather in an annual last hurrah to summer. But on...

If the citizens of south suburban Chicago Heights are skeptical about the effectiveness of a tough new ethics ordinance aimed at city officials, one can understand their caution. After all,...

George Stern lives in Illinois, but he makes a good living by hauling New York`s garbage. ''It`s a great business,'' said Stern, president of the Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway,...

A bill that includes money to help pay for the reconstruction of tornado- devastated Plainfield High School was passed overwhelmingly Thursday by the Illinois House and sent to the Senate....