Peter Kendall

Distraught because he believes he will never produce offspring, a sterile man listens to a doctor explaining how he can, indeed, father a biological son. The boy would be the...

Last summer, contractors at Commonwealth Edison's LaSalle nuclear power station were filling cracks in a concrete floor by pumping them full of foam grout. What the workers didn't know, though,...

The fires so instrumental to restoring a remnant of the prairie to the Cook County Forest Preserves have done more than char invasive buckthorn or fell opportunistic saplings. The flames,...

At the dawn of the Great Depression, on soil that had been known as Kransz's Farm, Irish and German immigrants raised a Gothic church, taller than any other around, and...

Using guidelines sketched out weeks ago in Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's own hand, church officials Thursday began making funeral arrangements to accommodate everyone from VIPs to parishioners. After daybreak on the...

Aware of all those high-tech sports domes that stick, leak and squeak, the architects who dreamed up the new proposal for a retractable roof over Soldier Field went decidedly low-tech...

Jamie Podgorny weighs 2 pounds 8 1/2 ounces--small enough to fit in one of her father's hands yet big enough to go home from the hospital. On Wednesday, the infant...

As state section director of the Mutual UFO Network, Walter Fydryck is responsible for collecting UFO sightings in Chicago and along Lake Michigan. It's not as big a job as...

Any film buff worth his weight in popcorn will explain that sci-fi flicks aren't only about aliens from outer space. They're also about us. In 1956, "Invasion of the Body...

Like anything on stampede, the storm that galloped through Lake County left telltale tracks. On Monday, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service followed them, trying to identify just what...