Robert Becker

At a meeting once at Kingswood United Methodist in Buffalo Grove, church members were trying to decide how to spend some of their funds. One suggested the money be used...

During the 48 hours Palatine police held Martin Blake, they never called him a suspect in the Brown's Chicken & Pasta murders. For two days, Blake existed in an investigative...

In an age of cynicism, Lynn and Richard Ehlenfeldt never lost their ideals. Richard, 50, who studied to be a Methodist minister before opposition to the Vietnam War drew him...

No one had to tell James Anama at the Palatine police station that his buddy, Michael Castro, was dead. "I saw his father's face and knew," Anama said. Anama and...

Less than a week after resident Cheryl Huff disappeared, the Police Department has announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to the location of the woman. Huff, 26, disappeared New...

Volunteers for the Department of Children and Family Services will have their third annual Christmas party for children and their foster parents Dec. 13 in the Oak Brook Ballroom of...

Not so long ago, to live in the suburbs was to vote Republican. The law was inviolable as gravity: Along with a wedding ring, a ranch house, two kids and...

In what could reflect a major fissure in a political power base that has lasted since the late 1960s, Richard Sarallo might not be the full-time mayor of Oakbrook Terrace...

Kathy Roethel and hundreds of others with courthouse business got their first taste of Du Page County`s new ''rocket docket'' on Monday. The Orland Park woman came to the newly...

To the many costly and debilitating maladies afflicting this country, add sick buildings. There are somewhere between 800,000 and 1.2 million such buildings in the United States, according to one...