Lynn Van Matre

Her youthful voice and pink barrettes are tell-tale signs that Margie is legally too young to buy cigarettes. But the 17-year-old from Bridgeview was still smoking Friday, the first day...

A reservoir project designed to end flooding in a subdivision in unincorporated DuPage has become the unintended victim of the legal battle that is holding up work on a proposed...

Brewster Creek Fen, a 7.3-acre swamp near South Elgin, has been approved as a dedicated Illinois nature preserve. The official designation required the approval of the nine-member Illinois Nature Preserves...

Steve Goodman The Easter Tapes (Red Pajamas) (star) (star) (star) 1/2 For several years during the mid-1970s, folk singer and songwriter Steve Goodman joined New York radio personality Vin Scelsa...

Neither Kim Bowen nor her son, Paul, belonged to the Suburban Assembly of God church at 2531 Hobson Rd., just a few blocks from Bowen's home in an unincorporated area...

The People's Resource Center could use a little help in making this a warm and merry Christmas for low-income families. The charitable organization desperately needs donations of new winter coats...

James Yellowbank It's Not the Singer, It's the Song (Northport) (star) (star) (star) Yellowbank, a Native American singer and songwriter from Wisconsin, has been an Indian activist for more than...

When guests gathered for galas at Garfield's Inn in the 1840s, they sat on beautiful ballroom chairs purchased by inn owner and early Kane County settler Timothy Garfield. Over the...

At the Mallard Lake Landfill, Darryl Sams' job title is landfill heavy equipment mechanic. But these days, Sams also is known as one of the "World's Greatest Garbagemen." Sams, 34,...

To casual observers, the tiny sculpted figures sporting brightly painted military garb may look like toy soldiers. But to members of the Military Miniature Society of Illinois, they are anything...