Karen M. Thomas

The unexplained death of a 9-year-old Lake Forest boy inside his family`s van has overtones of classic mystery fiction: The victim died while alone in a closed area. Young Robert...

No one planned it and few expected it, but Chicago`s suburbs are heading into the fall without a teachers strike. Teachers in Lombard, Midlothian, Woodstock and Oak Lawn reached tentative...

Mop in hand and eyes to the sky, weary Chicago-area homeowners continued to clean up--and total up--the damage Sunday from the flooding that resulted from last week`s record rainfall and...

Jim Meredith rowed past his half-submerged home Sunday--and into the hearts of water-logged Addison residents. On streets that had been turned into canals by the record-breaking rainfall last week, the...

It seemed that things had to get worse for some Chicagoans before they got better, as the area sweltered through its seventh consecutive day of 90-degree heat Sunday. The main...

As a result of the governor`s failed tax increase and his planned spending cuts, Chicago-area school administrators are facing a period of uncertainty. Many predict possible staff reductions and tax-increase...

Chicago`s weather was a regular winter`s stew Thursday--a bit of rain, a dash of snow, some sleet and fog and, for a time, thunder and lightning. What it all added...

School officials at Oak Park-River Forest High School are considering a policy that would require medical examinations of students and staff suspected of having AIDS. Dr. Alexander Schmidt, policy committee...

Conductor Dieter Kober of the Chicago Chamber Orchestra expects perfection from his musicians and choir. So when the audience-turned-choir of more than 1,400 at Fourth Presbyterian Church did not meet...

Robert M. Dow Jr., 21, chuckled over the telephone as he recalled watching his grandfather, Robert G. Dow, of Joliet, run around the house whooping and hollering with happiness Saturday...