Marja Mills

When she heard the national anthem begin to play, Connie Hust grabbed her coat and headed out the door, a free woman. ''Super Bowl. I hate it,'' said Hust, 46,...

The season`s first major storm buried northern sections of the Chicago area with a foot of heavy snow, brought O`Hare International Airport and road traffic to a virtual standstill and...

The other side of the street wasn`t the only thing to disappear in Tuesday`s dense fog. Road signs slipped from the view of motorists across the area, even with headlights...

An American Airlines Boeing 727, crippled by a flat tire blown on take off from Washington, D.C., circled O`Hare International Airport for about an hour Thursday night before landing safely...

Thousands of Amtrak passengers longing to be anywhere but subzero Chicago fretted for hours in the cool environs of Union Station Sunday night while station employees scurried to thaw frozen...

The nearly 9-foot-tall paintings of scenes from the life of Christ-a longstanding Christmas tradition in a park near downtown Ottawa, Ill.-must be removed, a federal judge ruled Monday. Judge Milton...

Four members of a Schaumburg family were killed and another was in critical condition after a two-car crash northwest of Milwaukee Sunday, the last day of the Thanksgiving weekend and...

A proposal to study the quality of water in the Fox River was rejected Tuesday by the McHenry County Board despite pleas by supporters that it is needed as part...

A proposal to improve and expand 911 emergency telephone service in McHenry County that appeared headed to easy victory in next Tuesday`s elections has hit a snag with a dispute...

For as long as most urban dwellers remember, there`s been nothing more to getting rid of garbage than putting it at the curb once a week and letting the scavenger...