Robert Becker

Du Page County voters provided no clear signal Tuesday as to whether the so-called tax rebellion is alive, dead or in limbo. Although the only countywide referendum-asking whether the county...

Early in their graduate academic careers at the University of Iowa`s prestigious department of physics and astronomy, Gang Lu and Linhua Shan had been friends. Both were part of the...

Gays don`t hold hands in the suburbs. ''I would feel less comfortable with a public display of affection out here,'' said John Freymann, 31, a gay man who lives in...

Two of four mayors headed for additional four-year terms in Du Page County elections Tuesday, but the other two were defeated, according to nearly complete unofficial returns in their towns....

And then there was one. After running second in a field of three mayoral hopefuls in Naperville`s February primary for mayor, retired corporate executive Sam Macrane finished first Tuesday-when it...

As dawn spread Tuesday over military bases from Illinois to the eastern U.S., fighter pilots, infantrymen and sailors stood on alert, preparing for President Bush`s emergency order to assemble an...