Lou Carlozo

It's dirty politics as usual. But it's time to clean up, say officials in Chicago and the suburbs, who were hit hard this primary season by the thousands upon thousands...

All three candidates for the Park Forest Village Board agree: The heart of the matter this election season is the Centre. The shopping center, long a symbol of the village's...

Atty. General Roland W. Burris sued Amoco Chemical Co. Thursday, charging that the company improperly managed hazardous waste at its two Joliet landfills. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court,...

The area's worst cold snap in a decade sent the mercury into hibernation again Saturday, as temperatures in the region dropped as low as minus 23 degrees and a brutal...

Whenever it gets this knuckle-cracking cold, Jim Crier remembers the two frozen years he spent at an Air Force base in Fairbanks, Alaska. Wind chills of 100 below. Whole months...

A day after the city ousted 20 homeless men from Lower Columbus Drive, the question remained: Was Tuesday's sweep a cold-weather mission of mercy, or a cold-hearted mission of muscle?...

Across Chicago, the New Year was rung in with gunfire. Of the four killed over Friday night and Saturday morning, three were shot to death. The fourth victim, Arvell Singletary,...

For those fretting that the institution of marriage has lapsed into an irreversible tailspin comes this bit of solace: More couples appear to be staying together. Since hitting a high...

The Wonder Stuff Construction for the Modern Idiot (Polygram) (STAR)(STAR) As a follow-up to 1991's "Never Loved Elvis," "Construction for the Modern Idiot" proves as unwieldy as its title. While...

Late Monday night, the Department of Children and Family Services' child-abuse hot line in Springfield received a call that sounded disturbingly familiar: A child was being mistreated and kept in...