Thousands of Chicago Bears fans stood for hours in long lines Friday for a chance to buy seats for the playoffs, but the tickets were gone in minutes, and most...
South suburban Harvey has received $250,000 in grants from Cook County to assist the city in remodeling its original City Hall building into a historic landmark and museum. The city...
After successfully negotiating the expansion of O'Hare International Airport, Mayor Richard Daley and Gov. George Ryan immediately faced new obstacles Thursday, including whether the agreement could be quickly locked into...
In the third year of the Illinois Standards Achievement Tests, most elementary school students in Will County and the southwest suburbs of Cook County met or exceeded the state's academic...
For the fourth straight year, Matt Suchocki turned his Rolling Meadows home into a gigantic spider web. He packed the front yard with witches and tombstones, a fog machine and...
Zeinah Elayyan prays at a mosque a half-block from her house in southwest suburban Bridgeview, but on Thursday she said she was too fearful to step out her front door...
A noisy crowd of young people shouting anti-Arabic insults began a late-night march Wednesday on a Bridgeview mosque but were contained by as many as 125 police officers on a...
As news of Tuesday's terrorist acts spread among Chicago-area Muslims, their reaction was twofold: horror and outrage at the devastation, and concern that they would somehow be held responsible--no matter...
Supporters of a proposal to expand O'Hare International Airport finally had their day Monday, using the last public hearing on the plan to let Gov. George Ryan know the project...
Dixmoor Police Chief Jack Genius plans to publicly burn seized drugs and smash confiscated guns out of fear they could end up "back on the streets" if Mayor-elect Rev. Donald...