Kerry Luft

Bloomingdale Village Administrator Robert Reeves, who announced his retirement six months ago, has decided to step down a year early from his $56,958-a-year job. Under a deal worked out between...

For Illinois environmental officials, the announcement this week that three state sites had been added to the federal Superfund cleanup program was not grim news at all. In fact, ''we`re...

It had been a wonderful honeymoon in the islands, Joe Shemanske and his new wife, Jamie, recalled Friday. But it was the hurricane that made it unforgettable. The Shemanskes, both...

For the third time in four days, a bolt of lightning felled people in Chicago`s western suburbs Saturday, injuring as many as eight, including a mother and the baby boy...

The numbers were 03, 14, 32, 40, 46, and 54, and millions of people will read `em and weep. Although it was ''extremely likely'' that someone won the record prize...

Reputed Chicago mob boss Joseph Ferriola, 61, died early Saturday in a Houston hospital, apparently of heart problems. Ferriola, who once had a heart transplant, died about 2:50 a.m. at...

Day Two-or was it Day One?-of night baseball at Wrigley Field unfolded Tuesday with less revelry, lighter rain and fewer headaches than the gala premiere the evening before. A rainout...

Officials of the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority and the South Armour Square neighborhood group signed a financial agreement Wednesday night that appears to have defused what potentially had been the...

Negotiations aimed at averting a Chicago teachers strike continued into the early hours Sunday, as union leaders reported slight progress but maintained that if no settlement with the school board...

Oather Alford, an out-of-work minister with $20 in his pocket, hoped to start a new life in Kenosha with his eight children. Though ''an act of God'' allowed him and...