Stephanie Banchero

Gov. Jim Edgar signed legislation Monday that allows Illinois authorities to indefinitely commit sexual offenders involuntarily to psychiatric institutions after they have served their criminal sentence. Under the Sexually Violent...

Larry Klein, 69, an internationally prominent designer and co-founder of one of the world's premiere design firms, died June 22 in Mexico. A leader of the modernist design movement in...

As a fighter plane shot 100 feet into the air and looped above the runway, another jet screamed below and hovered a mere 2 feet from the ground. From a...

First Monet. Then Degas. Now Renoir. Call it a three-peat with an arts beat. The Art Institute of Chicago, of course, has no equivalent of the National Basketball Association championships,...

Lawrence K. Schnadig, chairman of Schnadig Corp., one of the last surviving privately held manufacturers of upholstered furniture, died Wednesday at his home in Highland Park. He was 89. Mr....

It's a long way from Columbus, Miss., to Chicago's South Side, but for Rev. Johnnie Colemon, the journey has been rewarding. Colemon, born and raised in the rural southern town,...

Mass for Cmdr. Harry Blackburn, 75, a Chicago police officer for 38 years, will be said at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in St. Clement's Catholic Church, 642 W. Deming Pl. Cmdr....

Two South Side teenagers were charged Monday with reckless homicide and drag racing after an accident that left three friends dead. Chicago Police say the two teens were racing on...

While many Republicans want to see Gov. Jim Edgar pack his bags for a U.S. Senate seat in Washington, voters in Illinois overwhelmingly approve of the job he has done...

U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, the Illinois Democrat who was swept into office in 1992 in what her party labeled "the year of the woman," is in danger of being abandoned...