Laurie Goering

Like sponges too drenched to absorb anymore, the overflowing Mississippi River and other tributaries around central and southern Illinois sent thousands of residents back to sandbagging Thursday with visions of...

First there was the deadly discovery at Brown's Chicken & Pasta in Palatine early last year. Then came a bloody August afternoon at McDonald's in Kenosha. And early Friday a...

Calling the proposed $300 million Robbins incinerator a "potential tragedy," members of the board of Blue Island Elementary School District 130 are calling on the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to...

Owners of a controversial composting facility have until Sept. 14 to submit a plan to close the plant, a Cook County judge ruled Tuesday. Owners of the Composting Corporation of...

A controversial composting facility, the focus of more than three years of lawsuits and odor complaints, is shutting down, one of the owners said last week. Vince Cainkar, a co-owner...

The Chicago region, you might guess, wouldn't have much in the way of endangered species lurking amid the tollways and strip malls. The black-footed ferret, it can safely be said,...

Nelson Mandela, a quiet lawyer who has become a symbol of triumph over oppression, swept into Chicago Tuesday to ask that backers put their money where their good wishes are....

Nelson Mandela, a man who has become an international symbol of triumph over oppression, came to Chicago Tuesday to seek help in speeding the shift of power in his own...

Her hands dripping with floodwater, Barbara Kring peeled the plastic off the box that held her silk wedding dress, which had been wrapped for the ages after her 1991 wedding....

The village has moved a step closer to annexing a proposed international speedway north of town, reaching an agreement with neighboring farmers on annexing their land to Peotone. About 20...