Peter Kendall

The film ''Dying Young'' had just flickered off the two television screens on the bus carrying the Notre Dame women`s swimming team as it moved through a heavy snowstorm on...

The tulip bulbs in Marcy Stewart`s yard already have sent up leaves to peek at this peculiar January. ''It`s a little strange,'' said Stewart, who lives in Will County and...

Rushing to beat a property tax cap law that takes effect Tuesday, governments in Chicago`s collar counties are borrowing money at a furious pace, issuing about $1 billion in bonds...

Four years ago Tuesday, Barbara and William Gooch Jr. salvaged what they could from the third floor of their Elmhurst home, which only a day before had been a distant...

A long-awaited storm dropped more than 2 inches of rain on some parts of the Chicago area Thursday and at least 1.25 inches in most places. Lightning set fire to...

A decision by a Kane County judge to tell the public that an Elgin prostitute is infected with the AIDS virus was welcomed Tuesday by law-enforcement officials but questioned by...

A 90-acre limestone quarry in the populous Fox Valley should be converted into a garbage landfill to improve the site, according to a study obtained Tuesday. North Aurora Village President...

The black-dirt farmland of northeastern Illinois, some of the most productive ground in the nation, has proven especially fertile for growing both crops and subdivisions, as well as legislative squabbles...

There was such a sense of purpose in the crowded Aurora storefront that served as Warren Cannon`s campaign headquarters that it seemed more like a victory party than a concession...

It took Chicago lawyer Janice Ekblad almost three hours of white-knuckle driving to get to Kankakee Wednesday morning for a court case. She shouldn`t have bothered. The Kankakee County courthouse,...