Lara Weber

Age: 36 Title: Campaign manager for the Gery Chico for U.S. Senate campaign Neighborhood: West Loop Explain your job: Manage the finance, field and communications components of a statewide campaign....

It arrives around Memorial Day, friendly as that first gin and tonic, and before long, the cerebral and permanent are chucked for the here and now. A new Weber stainless...

Microsoft Corp. withdrew a security improvement for its flagship Windows XP software after it crippled Internet connections for some of the 600,000 users who installed it. Microsoft officials said Tuesday...

William Ligue Jr. pleaded guilty Tuesday to tackling and punching a Kansas City Royals coach during a White Sox game last year in what was then called Comiskey Park. Ligue's...

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A New Hampshire gallery has launched a $1 million dollar bounty hunt. The target: a 90-year-old nickel. The Liberty Head is one of five minted illegally in 1913, after official...

3. 7.0 rattles northeastern Japan The strongest earthquake to hit Japan in more than two years rumbled across the main island Monday, causing fires and landslides along its northeastern coast...

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Naperville neighbors Carl Price and Ed Vogler had flown together aboard huge American Airlines jetliners and on small, single-engine private planes. So it wasn't unusual for the men to be...

Signs warning visitors of dangerous dogs roaming the Dan Ryan Woods apparently scared off many Memorial Day picnickers Monday, with prime barbecue and parking spots left vacant. "I can't believe...