Lara Weber

The Chicago Park District will take its first steps toward fulfilling Mayor Richard M. Daley's hope of turning Meigs Field into Northerly Island Park with a June 21 fishing tournament....

Weighing the need for a large-scale overhaul of Chicago Park District programs, officials Tuesday announced a study aimed at finding out what residents want and whether all parts of the...

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. sued a Florida business promoter and several others, saying it has paid out millions of dollars for thousands of worthless and unnecessary diagnostic tests...

The man who sexually assaulted a 6-year-old girl at a North Side discount store Monday night is believed to have fondled 12 other girls in incidents dating to August 2001,...

2. Fatal shooting mars blues festival Gunfire broke out at the end of a daylong blues concert in Chattanooga, Tenn., leaving a 20-year-old man dead and a teenager wounded. About...

Illinois State officials said Tuesday they could learn as early as next week whether Eli Quick--the boy who earlier this spring was suspected of being a missing North Carolina child--is...

All tests on cattle linked to Canada's lone case of mad cow disease came back negative, investigators in Toronto reported Monday, while a Swiss expert said a few more cases...

At 40, Lloyd Taylor has never owned a home, but with the help of a government program announced Monday, he hopes to buy one for himself and his mother. "What...

3. N. Korea considers a 'nuke deterrent' North Korea threatened on Monday to build nuclear weapons as a deterrent to what it calls a "hostile" U.S. policy--the communist government's first...

U.S. military units assigned to track down Iraqi weapons of mass destruction have run out of places to look and are getting time off or being assigned to other duties,...