Laurie Goering

If you think property taxes are a little confusing in Cook County, you`re right. Somehow, over the years, the county has ended up with one of the most complex, illogical...

Brian Allison can`t help wondering what would have happened to him and his high school buddy if he hadn`t said a quick prayer before dashing for home through the raging...

Rita McLennon watched the birth this week of the baby of unmarried television character Murphy Brown with special interest. Four years ago she was there herself, a professional woman pushing...

Life returned to a semblance of normalcy in the Loop Monday with the reopening of Marshall Field`s flagship State Street store, where display window mannequins held buckets and mops. Among...

As the recovery effort from the Great Chicago Flood continued Wednesday, one thing became clear: This won`t be over soon. Across much of the north end of the Loop, lights...

Like nearly everybody else in the Loop on Tuesday, Rose Triplett came to work. And then she, like most, went home. ''I called first, but I couldn`t get through,'' Triplett...

It`s 9:30 a.m. at Rich East High School in Park Forest and Tom Fleming already has confiscated a star earring-a gang symbol, outlawed at the school- from a male student....

When David Ostertag heard the news Thursday that two south suburban Lansing police officers were shot down, one fatally, in a gun battle, it brought back the terrible memories of...

With Paul Tsongas` political fortunes waning in the face of a Bill Clinton electoral onslaught, the mild-mannered former senator with the Elmer Fudd voice and the dry wit might start...

Despite his commanding lead in the polls, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton opened the last day of campaigning for Tuesday`s primaries in Illinois and Michigan leaving nothing to chance. Starting the...