Victim, judge `very close’
Joan and Michael Lefkow have been part of the Chicago legal community for more than three decades and, according to one close friend, lived a storybook life. Very much in...
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Genocide suspect is arrested
A Rwandan man living in Romeoville was a perpetrator, not a victim, of his country's genocide, according to federal prosecutors who Wednesday accused him of gaining entry into the United...
Immigrants’ forms pile up
Vezir and Hata Omerinovic have waited nearly 18 months for their green-card application to be processed. Last month, the inconvenience became a crisis when the Bosnian couple stopped getting their...
Oberweis ads rile immigrant groups
A pair of controversial new campaign ads from Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Oberweis has enraged immigrant rights advocates, who contend the message decrying illegal immigration is racist and relies...
City pitches in on cleanup
Three days into a strike by trash haulers, the Cubs got the good news that they will not have to appear on a national telecast with the sight of mounting...
Iraqi-Americans cheer power shift in Baghdad
Iraqi-Americans in suburban Detroit celebrated in the streets, cheering and waving American and Iraqi flags. And in Chicago and around the nation, their counterparts joined them in spirit, trading phone...
Iraqis vent fury with heart, sole
Saddam Hussein expressed disdain for the first President Bush by depicting him on the floor of the Al Rashid Hotel in Baghdad, where visitors stepped on his face every day....
Divergent backgrounds led 2 to pursue Marine service
The two fallen servicemen took different paths into the Marines, but both had a deep desire to serve their country, relatives said. Lance Cpl. Joseph Maglione, 22, of Lansdale, Pa.,...
Pride in sons, faith in God help grieving families
Sad news for three families came over days, not suddenly. On Thursday, relatives dealt with the final blow of the Pentagon confirming the deaths in Iraq of their soldier sons,...
Tears, concern greet news from front line
The war in Iraq hit the heartland again Tuesday as families anguished over a missing Marine and grieved over three more fatalities. One Marine from a reserve center in Peoria...