Robert Blau

In the world of stocks, bonds and futures, there are indicators other than the Dow Jones industrial average or the Standard & Poor`s 500. If you want a taste of...

For a long time, they disappeared with barely a trace, victims of wrecking balls and bulldozers: The Art-Deco Hotel Baker garage in St. Charles; the Adams House and Elbert Gary`s...

The drive by environmentalists to persuade the Du Page County Forest Preserve District to buy a large portion of the Swift Meadows wetlands in Addison has won an endorsement from...

It seemed an unlikely place for a real-estate developer to be defending himself against his father`s alleged criminal past. But when Vincent Solano Jr., an attorney and developer, appeared before...

The family of brothers and sisters had always been tightly knit, living, working and playing close together in Chicago`s western suburbs and helping each other settle in a new country....

At a recent meeting of Bloomingdale`s Old Town Commission, developer Don Morris was pitching his latest project--a small, stylish shopping center called Tiffany Pointe. ''It`s a nice name,'' he told...

An unusually light voter turnout, coupled with complaints and confusion over unopened polling places and election judges who failed to report for duty, marked the early hours of balloting in...

The crest of the flood-swollen Des Plaines River swept into Chicago`s western suburbs Monday night, overflowing the river`s banks to block major thoroughfares and swamp scores of houses in the...

A developer`s plans to build 166 single-family homes on a 45-acre site in Bloomingdale have run into objections from residents in nearby Country Club Estates. Officials of Pulte Home Corp....

It`s quiet again in the old house on Wood Dale Road where the murders took place. Except for the lone policeman who sits in his patrol car to keep watch...