Peter Kendall

After receiving earlier signals to the contrary, Illinois transportation officials learned Friday that the federal government insists it is standing by its controversial program requiring businesses to try to get...

On Jan. 8, 1993, transportation engineers who had studied a rash of accidents on a stretch of Interstate Highway 57 where cars crossed into oncoming traffic recommended that guardrails be...

If the Bears lose Saturday, the only thing to look forward to before Chicago thaws out is Casimir Pulaski Day. So-perhaps by default, perhaps because some find that hope has...

(This is one of seven stories and six tables, published Dec. 29 and 30, associated with the release of the 1993 Illinois State Police crime report.) Violent crime dropped sharply...

(This is one of seven stories and six tables, published Dec. 29 and 30, associated with the release of the 1993 Illinois State Police crime report.) Violent crime rates rose...

(This is one of seven stories and six tables, published Dec. 29 and 30, associated with the release of the 1993 Illinois State Police crime report.) The violent crime rate...

It was as if the slot machines were hungry. Kathy Hanaman, a happy-go-lucky 45-year-old woman in an iridescent purple blazer, was feeding them as fast as she could, her fat...

On a recent chilly afternoon, the 27 children of Nancy Mendez's kindergarten class at the Helen C. Peirce School of International Studies were busily working on their latest cutting-and-pasting project:...

All the politicians whose names will appear on ballots Nov. 8 would do well to stop by Andrew C. Miller's brick home in the middle-class Chatham neighborhood on Chicago's South...

On stage at RFK Stadium for the opening of the current Rolling Stones world tour, Mick Jagger had this to say: "I've been in Washington a week, and I haven't...