Stevenson Swanson

If it were possible to hold one's breath for three weeks, Hillary Rodham Clinton probably wouldn't exhale until Election Day. After almost two years of campaigning, Clinton has finally achieved...

As the Mideast once again moved to the brink of war, more than 3,000 people jammed a rally at a Chicago hotel Thursday to express what one Jewish leader called...

Democratic Vice President Al Gore and Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush on Tuesday brought the presidential race to Illinois, a swing state, as both candidates intensified their campaign for...

To hear America Online Chairman Steve Case tell it, the complex tap dance to put together the biggest merger in business history began with a simple, declarative sentence last October....

The UN Security Council voted 11-0 on Friday to resume weapons inspections in Iraq, and the United States called on Saddam Hussein to comply with the resolution that was approved...

Three Chicago chefs scored top honors Monday at the eighth annual James Beard Awards, considered the Oscars of the food and restaurant world, where outstanding chef honors were shared by...

After being a vagabond in its own city for more than a decade, the Chicago Public Library on this date settled into a permanent home, a 10-story, classically styled building...

To save a pristine remnant of the grasslands that once covered the Prairie State, conservationists on this date attacked it with bulldozers. The Healy Road prairie, in far northwestern Cook...

After months of preliminary work, the scientists at the University of Chicago's new Metallurgical Laboratory were ready to run their first experiment. The experiment did not involve metallurgy. In fact,...

In the decades following her husband's assassination, Betty Shabazz found within herself the strength to carry out two monumental missions, one private and one public, for which nothing in her...