Lew Freedman

Make no mistake about it, the movie "Open Season" is really open season on hunters. The animated feature currently playing all over the Chicago area takes aim at hunters who...

Make no mistake about it, the movie "Open Season" is really open season on hunters. The animated feature currently playing all over the Chicago area takes aim at hunters who...

Fishermen stood a few feet apart along the shore of the Big Sioux River, slipping either nightcrawlers or deer steak onto their hooks, then casting into the flowing water. It...

Life is more shades of gray than black and white, more about both sides of the story than rigid absolutes. If politics is the art of compromise, then daily living...

Wayne Crawford does what so many anglers pledge they will do when they retire. He fishes every day at Hidden Lakes in Bolingbrook. "As long as it's not raining or...

Not too many years ago, Becky Garcia was reading Mother Goose. Now she lives with a deceased bird named Gary the Goose. Garcia, 18, of Spring Grove, sat in a...

Jordan Mark was born into a shooting family. Opening day of the 2006 dove-hunting season marked her initiation as a third-generation hunter at Des Plaines State Fish and Wildlife Area....

The incident happened many years ago, before the world knew who Susan Butcher was or wanted to be. On a lonely trail in the Alaska wild, her dog team refused...

It was as hot as it should be in Mississippi as June spilled into July, but Joe Fortunato ignored the sweat beading on his brow and dripping down his neck...

More than 20 years have passed since the last time Evan McGlinn attempted to sail. He tried to shove off the coast of Nantucket Island, Mass., in a tiny sunfish,...