Stanley Ziemba

The water is flowing again in the Illinois and Michigan Canal in Channahon. Nearly two years after rains wiped out 200 feet of the canal's embankment in the town, causing...

A 35-year-old woman was in stable condition at St. James Hospital Medical Center in Chicago Heights Monday after leaping from the second-floor window of her University Park townhouse to escape...

A 24-year-old Harvey man who apparently went to sleep while cooking a meal at home was killed Thursday in a fire at the house. Kenneth Sheriff arrived at his home...

When Karen Nyberg first learned she was a winner of this year's Golden Apple Award, the Homewood-Flossmoor High School science teacher was thrilled but also a little apprehensive. "I was...

A delay in the construction of the Crestwood stadium that will serve as the home field for the Cook County Cheetahs will force the independent minor-league baseball team to hold...

Supporters of a planned $100 million motor speedway in Plano in northwest Kendall County said Thursday they hoped to begin construction of the 70,000-seat facility late this year. Representatives of...

Facing growing public concern over safety, the Navy is reviewing its plan to ship 23 million pounds of napalm through southwest Cook County to a waste-treatment plant in East Chicago,...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week will begin cleaning the site of a former oil-recycling operation. The cleanup of the former Custom Blended Oil site at 31755 S. Rathje...

Officials in Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 on Thursday scrapped plans to submit a $75 million bond plan to area voters in March after learning the district would have...

The state's new school funding package may have been billed as a way to funnel more money to poor schoolchildren in Illinois, but it actually could benefit diverse districts from...