Phat X. Chiem

Note to the love-struck couple making out in the crosswalk and clogging pedestrian traffic at the corner of Erie and Michigan: Shoppers hate you. Note to the woman putting a...

Scientists proclaiming the safety of genetically engineered crops and consumer activists complaining of lax oversight squared off Thursday in Chicago at a U.S. Food and Drug Administration public hearing on...

Since arriving in New York City last week for a Yankees-Red Sox playoff game, Australian vacationers Basil and Rex Sellers have feasted every night on a diet solely of steaks--porterhouses,...

Just a week after unloading its lackluster Lender's Bagels line, Kellogg Co. rebounded Friday with news that it would buy the country's leading maker of vegetarian and health foods, Worthington...

Two men who apparently ignored warning signs against swimming drowned Thursday in the murky waters of Busse Lake in the Busse Woods Forest Preserve near Elk Grove Village, officials said....

As searchers scanned the waters for debris from John F. Kennedy Jr.'s downed plane, Ethel Kennedy handed out communion wafers in her Hyannis Port home and her brother-in-law, U.S. Sen....

The site of Wayne Romanchuk's new home in unincorporated Rolling Meadows is a sun-dappled grove where oak and elm trees thrive, and woodland flowers flourish in their shade. Insects buzz...

Officially, the gaming reform legislation spun out this week by the Illinois General Assembly makes no mention of Rosemont. Tell that to Rosemont Mayor Donald Stephens. He met Thursday morning...

It was the biggest bet of his life. But Richard Duchossois' gamble two years ago to close his Arlington International Racecourse and hold out for a better deal from the...

Douglas S. Dsida has dropped out of the aldermanic race for the 6th Ward in Des Plaines and has thrown his support behind Tom Becker, the sole challenger left facing...