Joan Giangrasse Kates

Schwartz's Intimate Apparel changed with the times during its century in business, starting as Schwartz's Corset Shop on Division Street in Chicago and moving to various North Shore locations before...

Harold D. Fitzsimmons took over as Lisle police chief in the early 1980s, four years after the department had left its headquarters in the basement of a downtown store, where...

Gary Planos' passion for golf carried him from caddie on the North Shore to popular PGA Tour host at the Tournament of Champions at Kapalua Resort in Hawaii. Planos, 62,...

Alexa Rodheim-Cutler taught far more than grammar and composition to students in her English classes at Elk Grove High School. During her two-year battle with breast cancer, through the ups...

Throughout his life, people would say Anthony Giamberdino Sr. could be a double for Tony Bennett. And like the man he resembled, Giamberdino, known professionally as Tony Dino, built a...

The eldest son in a family of nine children, Joseph A. Walsh for years attended Sunday Mass at Ascension Catholic Church in Oak Park, where he had once been an...

Every St. Patrick's Day, a line would form outside Augie's Restaurant in Andersonville as its founder and co-owner, Greek immigrant Augustino Georgopoulos, churned out once-a-year Irish specials. "For a Greek,...