Louise Kiernan

Many questions about how the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services treats the children in its care come after something terrible has happened to one of them. It is...

With the announcement this week that it is opening 50 new stores, including a three-story Nordstrom, Woodfield Shopping Center in Schaumburg is trying to reclaim the title of United States'...

As the sophisticated form of finger-pointing about who's to blame for the Great Chicago Flood of 1992 continues in our nation's courtrooms, this rather unnatural disaster is settling into its...

The fourth word on the spelling test Monday in Barbara Gabel's 6th-grade class was "believing." As in "I have trouble believing we are really here today," Gabel told her pupils...

Five days before Jeffrey Dahmer was killed, he met with Roy Ratcliff, the minister who was his only visitor at the Columbia Correctional Institution, for their weekly Bible study session....

For 10 years, Miguel Monserrate did not bother to vote. The 44-year-old security guard did not suffer from political malaise, dispiritedness or loss of faith in government. He attributes his...

Supporters of a recently scuttled plan to create a unit school district in Lake Villa Township said Monday they will postpone any attempts to revive the issue until a state...

A 13-year-old girl, drugged and sexually assaulted as she lay unconscious. A 12-year-old left vomiting in another room as the attacker videotaped the assault. And later, a parent's frantic call...

There have always been more questions about Gail Savage and her three dead babies than answers. On Monday, authorities in a Lake County courtroom took the first steps toward finding...

Dan Rostenkowski's Democratic primary victory should be headed for the textbooks, a classic study of the importance of individual parts, from direct mail to key endorsements to crafting of the...