Ray Quintanilla

Shopkeepers on Hough and Main Streets in Barrington have heard talk of a new, revitalized downtown for more than two decades. Plans have come and gone, but the latest, to...

First balmy weather. Then snow and cold. Now lots of rain. Chicagoans have seen it all this wild winter. Fran Radziszewski says she's seen enough. Friday morning, the Des Plaines...

At the very time of year when principles of peace, brotherhood, goodwill and joy are supposed to infuse religious and secular worlds alike, many people are finding that news events--the...

A one-year effort to boost suburban transit ridership by giving free monthly passes to people traveling from homes in Chicago to jobs in the suburbs has been a bust during...

More than 600 miles of navigable rivers snake across northeastern Illinois, but almost 500 of them are inaccessible or unsafe for boating and other recreational activities. Since the state's leading...

Missouri authorities said Friday that they know the whereabouts of a Wheeling teen suspected in the slayings of a Prospect Heights woman and her young son. But investigators in Franklin...

Gov. Jim Edgar assembled Illinois' horse-racing elite Friday and urged them to devise a plan for resolving their industry woes that also might reopen Arlington International Racecourse. "I was just...

The union representing 2,300 garbage collectors agreed Wednesday on a new 5-year contract with the Chicago area's largest private waste haulers, narrowly averting a strike that threatened to leave tons...

St. Francis Hospital in Evanston has ordered extra garbage bins. The Pegasus Restaurant in Chicago's Greektown is busy trying to find someone to haul away the tons of garbage it...

Threatening the first strike against the Chicago area's private garbage haulers in decades, the union representing thousands of garbage-collection workers said its members will strike this week unless they get...