Peter Kendall

Thousands of Caterpillar Inc. workers, most with grim expressions and some with calendars tucked beneath their arms, began to trudge back to work on a cheerless, gray Monday in Peoria,...

After failing in her attempts to visit the Art Institute, the new Chicago public library and Carson Pirie Scott`s State Street store, Janice Barton approached a police officer helping with...

At 1 a.m., two college freshmen in Downstate Illinois climb into a borrowed car and drive through a downpour into the night. Kim, a pale young woman with wide brown...

Judy Jacobs, a nurse at Planned Parenthood`s Midwest Medical Center, 1201 N. Clark St., prepares the recovery room for the day`s patients. It is a bright, open space with blue...

As suburban lawns awaken from a winter of dormancy, scientists will begin testing high-tech, chemical odor eaters that promise to keep decaying grass clippings from fouling the air around compost...

When George Bush sought primary votes in Du Page County four years ago, Illinois` strongest Republican bastion responded kindly. Voters gave him a 15-point margin of victory over his challenger,...

The parent of Marshall Field & Co., citing a 40 percent drop in earnings during its most recent quarter, announced Monday it will eliminate 630 jobs from its department store...

The 16-year-old Chicago youth suspected of hitting another teenager with a baseball bat at Mayor Richard Daley`s vacation home last weekend is ''anxious to cooperate'' with investigators, his attorney said...

Kenneth McNatt opened the mailbox in front of his Wheaton home last week and took out a package from Washington, D.C., that was about four decades late. Inside were two...

These days, Rich Williamson is in front of a television more than he is on it. And although he`s a candidate for the U.S. Senate, he doesn`t get recognized much...