Steve Kloehn

Karen Heard was shopping for shoes Saturday morning when two men ran into the store firing handguns. The men, police believe, were shooting at someone standing at the back of...

Roger P. McAuliffe, an assistant majority leader of the Illinois House, was reported missing and presumed dead after a boating mishap near his vacation home in northern Wisconsin, officials said...

Six years after a college football coach decided Christian men needed their own, new kind of ministry, the evangelical Promise Keepers movement has swept past obstacles like a halfback on...

Whatever Hillary Rodham Clinton's consultations with a "sacred psychologist" and "global midwife" tell us about the first lady, tales of her cosmic confabs underscore an earthbound reality: New Age is...

The mystery that unsettled this small town for six weeks may have been solved through a dramatic suicide in Wisconsin, officials said Thursday. Sheila Swets, 40, described as the "major...

ValuJet customers at Midway Airport went into a holding pattern Monday evening, buzzing with irritation as the discount airline canceled its last flight out of town. Even as they scrambled...

In 1170, when the Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered in his own cathedral, the Christian world trembled. A political titan on a par with kings during his lifetime, Thomas Becket...

A half-century ago, Sir Edmund Hillary became a hero by conquering the last obvious challenge of the explorer: Mt. Everest. Few people remember the second person who scaled the peak,...

After a federal court last week ordered the reinstatement of Tilton School Principal Debrona Banks--handing the 10-month-old Chicago School Reform Board its biggest defeat yet--lawyers and watchdog groups began studying...

Dennis Rodman is off the wall. That's hardly news around Chicago, but it ought to make for smoother traffic reports Thursday afternoon. For more than two weeks, a 32-foot-high painting...