Leann Spencer

An unarmed, off-duty Skokie police officer was shot and critically wounded by a man who then apparently turned the gun on himself Thursday night at Niles West High School, Skokie...

Allegations of sexual harassment have stung an obscure North Shore unit of government--the Mosquito Abatement District. The accusations by two female employees against longtime trustee Edward Disch have apparently cost...

Schona Chavanduka-Buranda of Evanston is watching the news, phoning home and combing the Internet for information about her brother, a journalist in Zimbabwe who has been thrown in jail. Mark...

Gov. George Ryan has enlisted private contractors to help state workers repair potholes on the Dan Ryan Expressway and called Wednesday for a major resurfacing of the road to be...

Evanston Township High School is one of 10 schools nationwide to be honored Tuesday for its achievement in advanced placement classes. The award is based on the school's statistical improvement...

(This is one of eight stories and eighteen tables associated with the release of the 1998 Illinois school report cards for city and suburban schools.) The banner across the hall...

Nearly two dozen high school students, sitting around surplus desks, dialing borrowed phones, are huddled in the Evanston campaign headquarters of Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat making her first run for...

As Mom shops for groceries and Dad chats with his alderman, Sis gets an update on her high school homework assignments and her brother orders a library book. But nobody...

There's a big yellow school bus roving around Evanston and Wilmette, but you won't find it carrying any students to class. The bus is being used as a campaign ploy...

Even as the state prepares to quarantine 96 city blocks on the North Side in an effort to keep the destructive Asian longhorn beetle from dining on trees elsewhere in...