Citizen warrior
It was a scene made for a 4th of July TV newscast: an auditorium filled with immigrants from 72 countries, all gathered to swear the oath of U.S. citizenship. Several...
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Kane libel case tests new free-speech law
Stung by a multimillion-dollar judgment in a libel case brought by the chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, a Kane County newspaper is fighting back with a new state...
Ruling boosts O’Hare plan to move suburban cemetery
Chicago's plans to uproot a church cemetery to expand O'Hare International Airport got a boost Thursday from a state appeals court, leaving opponents who claim moving it violates the 1st...
Iowa judge OKs gay marriages
Iowa's first same-sex couple to get married here tied the knot Friday, a surprise breakthrough for gay-rights advocates in this traditionally conservative Midwestern state. As wedding ceremonies go, Rev. Mark...
After flight, Iraq fugitive back in fray
Eight months after Aiham Alsammarae escaped from a Baghdad jail and returned to his home in suburban Chicago, an Iraqi judge has thrown the book at him, sentencing the former...
Landfill proposal dumped in Yorkville
Backers of a proposed Yorkville landfill Friday were weighing whether to appeal a City Council rejection of their facility in a 7-1 vote that had opponents cheering and toasting each...
Butkus? A Colt?
They love their horses at the Hooved Animal Humane Society in Woodstock. But they love the Bears too. And when on Thursday, so close to the Super Bowl, one of...
BISHOP FRANK LYONS: Denominational dissident
Wearing a scarlet miter and colorful vestments, Anglican Bishop Frank Lyons of Bolivia stood before an Evanston church Sunday and called the faithful to kneel at the altar. "If there...
Denominational dissident
Wearing a scarlet miter and colorful vestments, Anglican Bishop Frank Lyons of Bolivia stood before an Evanston church Sunday and called the faithful to kneel at the altar. "If there...
Rite of passage for a recruit: graduation
Partly, it was the recruits' pitiable buzzed heads, like those of Russian convicts, that set my wife crying. Partly, it was the men's ferocity as they jogged to the Marine...