Sue Ellen Christian

Any way you slice it, Lake Michigan water makes the dough rise slow and the crust too dark. That`s why officials at Gonnella Baking Co. in Schaumburg were relieved Thursday...

An 18-year-old employee who allegedly took his employer`s 1990 Chevrolet Corvette convertible for a ride without permission demolished the car after losing control in an industrial park, Buffalo Grove police...

Mary Kruger and her 14-year-old son were at the McDonald`s drive-in window in Roselle late Monday morning waiting for hamburgers and fries when a white Ford Grenada jumped the curb,...

Brian Allison can`t help wondering what would have happened to him and his high school buddy if he hadn`t said a quick prayer before dashing for home through the raging...

If you have to get a traffic ticket, this one is probably the most tolerable-and the authorities think it is a grand idea. Police escape hours of time in court,...

Schaumburg may soon take the unusual step of requiring retailers to request two forms of identification if a customer buying alcohol looks underage. A proposed ordinance would require that a...

When Diana Buecking saw where her town`s per capita income ranked among Chicago`s suburbs, she had what some might consider a strange reaction for someone living in ritzy North Barrington....

At 1 a.m., two college freshmen in Downstate Illinois climb into a borrowed car and drive through a downpour into the night. Kim, a pale young woman with wide brown...

Judy Jacobs, a nurse at Planned Parenthood`s Midwest Medical Center, 1201 N. Clark St., prepares the recovery room for the day`s patients. It is a bright, open space with blue...

As another day of testimony wound down Friday in the court-martial of Charles David Garner, the jury foreman did something that in a civilian court could have drawn a swift...