Patrick Reardon

Seven former hostages from hijacked Trans World Airlines Flight 847, including four whose husbands are still held captive in Beirut, arrived in Chicago Thursday night for a subdued reunion with...

''I`m sitting here kind of stunned and sick,'' Kathleen Flanagan said Tuesday night after watching President Reagan`s nationally televised press conference. ''I just don`t want to see my father be...

The recent salmonella epidemic, caused by tainted milk produced at Jewel`s Hillfarm Dairy in Melrose Park, has cost Jewel`s parent company at least $3.5 million, a spokesman for the firm...

William Ware, Mayor Harold Washington`s chief of staff, died Thursday in New York City of complications resulting from pneumonia. He was 37. Mr. Ware died at 1:40 p.m. Chicago time...

Already under siege by the Reagan administration, Chicago`s hiring quotas to improve minority representation on the police department were attacked Wednesday in a lawsuit charging that the quotas discriminate against...

Carol Weir finds it easier to understand the radical Shiite Moslems who kidnaped her husband on a Beirut street nearly a year ago than the American officials who have failed...

The administration of Harold Washington, Chicago`s first black mayor, has been asked by the U.S. Department of Justice to seek the elimination of court- ordered hiring quotas that have increased...