R. Bruce Dold

Cicero residents appeared Tuesday to be approving overwhelmingly an advisory referendum asking whether the suburb should close its late-night bars earlier. The measure racked up a big ''yes'' vote in...

Cicero residents overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday an advisory referendum proposal urging the suburb to close its late-night bars earlier. As election officials tallied votes from 65 referendum proposals on suburban...

President Reagan campaigned hard for his tax overhaul plan in the Chicago area Thursday, calling it ''a sure recipe for a vibrant surging economy into the 21st Century.'' Calling on...

Legislation to ease liability insurance problems plaguing Illinois government and industry may be considered next week by the General Assembly and is likely to be modeled after medical malpractice reforms...

They met in a McDonald`s. Barbara Dumas was 20 and cleaned tables there, because it was tough for a young black woman to get any other job. Nadirshah Nooruddin was...

Carolyn Brooks and some of her friends had 100 people over for dinner last Thursday. The crew from St. Mark`s Episcopal Church in Evanston, one of a dozen congregations that...

Residents of a North Side apartment building left homeless Friday by an early morning fire said they had feared for more than a month that the building would be set...

''There was no screaming,'' Lee Stephenson recalled. ''I think it happened too suddenly. I don`t think any of the people in the car knew what happened.'' The people in the...

Investigators are focusing on an electrical transformer as the possible source of the fire that destroyed Arlington Park Race Track, track President Joseph Joyce said Tuesday. Also on Tuesday, state...

A rock and roll wave swept through the Chicago area Friday as Bruce Springsteen fans gobbled up 70,000 tickets to his show Aug. 9 in Soldier Field in less than...