Michael Lev

If Roger Damrow's theory is correct, about the only way to pass a school tax increase these days is to run hard-on the basketball court. Damrow, superintendent of tiny Alden-Hebron...

A homemade bomb exploded in the lobby of suburban Westmont's post office Saturday afternoon, and immediately afterward, a heavily armed Bridgeport man who claimed responsibility turned himself in to authorities....

When even the local tax watchdog group didn't oppose his $13.5 million school building referendum proposal, Thomas Many, superintendent of Mt. Prospect District 57, had reason to be confident. But...

When paramedics found her, the newborn infant, wrapped in plastic and stuffed in a freezer for hours, looked like a lifeless rag doll. She had no vital signs, no pulse....

Mummy-wrapping her three young sons in a closet's worth of sweatshirts, socks, scarves and other winter garb took a determined 40 minutes on Saturday. But Serena Sally of Hyde Park...

Pasquale "Pat" Marcy, a Chicago political power broker in the notorious 1st Ward and reputed mob link to City Hall, died early Saturday. The 79-year-old Marcy died in his sleep...

Chicago police, firefighters, high-rise managers and airport officials kicked into high gear Saturday, beefing up security measures throughout the city after the explosion at the World Trade Center in New...

Investigators of the massacre at the Brown's Chicken & Pasta in Palatine are examining whether a recent series of armed robberies at suburban stores and restaurants might reveal a clue...

It was dusk before they began removing the corpses from the chicken restaurant. The grim procession-seven body bags in all-confirmed the horror that had transpired inside, but it did little...

They call it the Lanoff League, and they`ve bowled together every Christmas for the last 35 years. ''What else do we have to do?'' said Skip Lanoff, one of the...