Peter Kendall

There is no good place in Illinois to lock up an 11-year-old boy. When Juvenile Court Judge Thomas R. Sumner was confronted in July with a request to temporarily lock...

Illinois Secretary of State George Ryan said Thursday that he will propose legislation to allow his office to revoke driver's licenses of people who fail to pay child support. The...

Wednesday must have been Chip Day at Wrigley Field, for each of the 34,984 fans seemed to have one on their shoulder. After a true-to-form Cubs' loss, Major League Baseball...

Richard Bailey, horse trader, can surely sell himself as well. Annette Hoffman, a 52-year-old Gold Coast plastic surgeon, married Bailey in April after meeting him by chance in a North...

A hunch that a murder suspect might be aboard a Milwaukee-bound Greyhound led police into a standoff with an empty bus on the Tri-State Tollway near Deerfield, stranding thousands of...

By the end of the decade, automobiles carrying at least two or more passengers will be able to hop in their own special lane on the Stevenson Expressway and fly...

Too much was familiar about the way 10-year-old Jamone Ross died. Sitting on his bicycle on Sunday evening, he was unintentionally hit by gang gunfire sprayed from a passing car,...

Chicago Housing Authority Chairman Vincent Lane's proposal to raise $1 billion or more in a bond sale this year would give financial muscle, for the first time, to his grand...

Federal housing officials are poised to propose a subtle shift in law to create a way for the Chicago Housing Authority to pay for a bold transformation of its developments,...

For almost five years, public housing officials across the country have watched Chicago Housing Authority Chairman Vincent Lane lead apartment-by-apartment security sweeps to weed out drugs and guns. In all...