Peter Kendall

A painfully shy high school student on that day in 1958, Theodore J. Kaczynski found the most popular students in Mr. McCaleb's chemistry class suddenly paying attention to him. What...

Norman Neel has never missed voting in an election and he was not about to let a late-winter 10-inch snowstorm stop him Tuesday. But after digging out his car and...

The 23-year reign of Chicago's Sears Tower as the world's tallest building apparently is over now that steel spires are in place atop identical, side-by-side towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia....

Chicago's free-wheeling, strong-shouldered personality created a marvelous environment in which to experiment with architecture, but a difficult one in which to protect it. It could become even harder after Wednesday....

Guinevere Garcia, who had clemency thrust upon her uninvited Tuesday, has proven that even a motive as simple as mercy can be riddled with complexities. On Death Row, she sat...

In the last few months, Phyllis Davis had been raising her family in a ramshackle three-flat on the West Side that had neither heat nor running water. When police found...

Last week, Betty Sims was watching the news when she saw the story of Richard Walski, a 16-year-old suburban boy with an artificial heart waiting for a donor organ. "I...

Beverly Heard was on a whirlwind Thursday-two national talk shows in New York, then a flight back to Chicago for lunch with her publicist at the trendy Bice restaurant in...

Had Nathaniel Hawthorne been writing today, Hester Prynne would have come to a very different end. She would have her own line of "Scarlet Letter" cleavage-enhancing frocks. She'd be talking...