Noah Isackson

Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, a hustling West Side street kid and prizefighter, rose from grinding poverty to become Illinois' first Jewish state senator and a U.S. District Court judge who swore...

A small army of agricultural inspectors, flight attendants, customs officials and meat-sniffing beagles was pressed into service Wednesday at O'Hare International Airport, guarding against the spread of foot-and-mouth livestock disease...

William G. Stratton, 87, the populist Republican who built Illinois' interstate highway system as the state's 32nd governor, died Friday, March 2, in Northwestern Memorial Hospital. One of Illinois' most...

Just hours before he left office Saturday, President Clinton ordered Mel Reynolds released from prison, commuting the former Chicago Democratic congressman's sentence as part of a flurry of last-minute clemency...

The day after local utilities announced that natural gas bills will shoot up dramatically in January, Mayor Richard Daley and consumer advocates blasted them and called for an investigation into...

A recently promoted Chicago Fire Department lieutenant was fatally struck by a car Saturday as he prepared to leave the scene of a minor early-morning accident on the Bishop Ford...

As the Christmas buying season reaches its height, frantic holiday shoppers are sharing the crowded aisles with another seasonal clientele: shoplifters. With area police responding to an annual holiday spike...

With a foot of snow on the ground and school canceled, 13-year-old Eric Bednarowicz had two things on his side Tuesday: time and a shovel. "Whoever shoveled last night basically...

John C. Noonan, 58, of Western Springs, an old-fashioned Chicago newsman who later became editor and publisher of the Des Plaines Valley News, died Sunday, Oct. 15, of lung cancer...

With conflict escalating around her and her husband called to active military duty, Chaya Shaul and her five children left their home in Israel this week to stay with her...