Peter Kendall

For the very first time, the most inflated thing in Chicago's legendary St. Patrick's Day Parade wasn't a politician. The politicians were there, of course, following the same group they...

Of all the history that Illinois voters will write Tuesday, none will be as compelling as the decision made by a narrow band of Chicago and suburban neighborhoods on the...

With the primary election just days away, campaign brochures have been popping up in mailboxes with a "LaRouche Alert," urging people to "protect your vote" by selecting 10 candidates who...

On the last day she could justifiably do it, Dawn Clark Netsch on Sunday called on the other candidates running for the Democratic nomination for governor to detail their plans...

Leroy Williams has little chance of winning the Democratic nomination for state representative in the South Side's 24th District-which just might be the reason he's running. He apparently can't win...

Several floors of steel-beam superstructure collapsed at the construction site of the new U.S. Postal Service building in the South Loop on Wednesday, spilling workers to the ground several floors...

In the narrowest sense, 8-year-old Lazerrick Eggleston's death was an accident. The man who drew the gun from his pants pocket didn't seem to intentionally point it at the 3rd...

As snow days go, Friday was a scorcher. When temperatures went above 90 degrees and humidity went above 50 percent, schoolroom windows became magnifying glasses and the air behind them...

Andy, a boulder-headed St. Bernard picked up by Du Page County authorities as a runaway, is a 140-pound dog with a chip on his shoulder. More precisely, Andy has a...

Her hands dripping with floodwater, Barbara Kring peeled the plastic off the box that held her silk wedding dress, which had been wrapped for the ages after her 1991 wedding....