Lara Weber

The Chicago Park District will begin giving away more than 100,000 tulip bulbs at 9 a.m. Thursday at the Garfield Park Conservatory's main parking lot, 300 N. Central Park Ave....

Raquel Lucas is spending a small fortune on her senior prom. Her dress cost $250; her shoes were $100; and there was $60 for a bottle of Christian Dior's J'adore,...

A 32-year-old Lansing man is accused of stealing another person's identity and using it to buy a $48,000 Jaguar convertible and other goods in what Will County officials said Wednesday...

A month after Dr. Robert C. Atkins' death, his much-ridiculed diet has received its most powerful scientific support yet: Two studies in one of medicine's most distinguished journals show it...

3. After 50 years, Mt. Everest is still the climb of a lifetime Windstorms forced more than 100 climbers to retreat from the south face of Mt. Everest on Wednesday,...

A powerful earthquake shook the Algerian capital region Wednesday night, killing more than 400 people and injuring 1,672, state-run radio said. The quake, with a 6.7 magnitude, was deadliest in...

Another health scare, another lunch in front of the cameras. Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien cut into a prime Alberta steak in a downtown Ottawa restaurant Wednesday in a bid...

A generation after state lawmakers voted to doom ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, the Illinois House on Wednesday voted by a large margin to resurrect the aged proposition in...

About two dozen Hispanics and their supporters sang traditional Christian songs and carried symbolic coffins through Pilsen on Wednesday to commemorate the 19 illegal immigrants who died after being locked...

4. Congress strikes deal on $350 billion tax cut; vote this week House and Senate tax writers struck an agreement Wednesday on a $350 billion tax cut that Republicans leaders...