Peter Kendall

In nearly 40 years of chasing down hundreds of people who fraudulently claimed they received the Medal of Honor, Mitchell Paige has never landed a fish as big as Kane...

Carl Sandburg never once thought of writing that Chicago was "Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Watcher of Lovely Sunsets." Chicago just never has been a...

On an afternoon made for flinging open windows or basking in the sun, Scott Schiro and two friends sat at one of Chicago's many outdoor cafes and celebrated something important-a...

In the eyes of its designers, Chicago's new 911 system is the nation's most sophisticated emergency calling network and will help make the city a safer place when it comes...

Eleanor Arens has embraced bird feeding in such a big way that it might seem she is trying to support a flock of ostriches. When she feeds birds, she sometimes...

In what one school attorney described as one of the largest legal settlements in Chicago Board of Education history, officials have agreed to pay $3 million to a former student...

The family's self-portrait, sketched in words by their attorney, is of a quiet, even quaint day being spent by a 4-year-old boy alone with his parents. On Monday morning, "Richard"...

When firefighters burst open an electrical vault on the 31st floor of a Near North Side high-rise Wednesday, an opaque cloud of smoke rolled out and plunged them into darkness....

As job descriptions go, this one for a position in a sewage treatment plant was hardly inviting: "A Maintenance Laborer B performs a variety of routine, manual labor tasks, often...

The flu has recently been swiping across a Naperville day-care center like an eraser across a chalkboard, at one time or another sending 22 of 24 to play at home....