Sue Ellen Christian

Republican candidate Gary Skoien on Tuesday charged U.S. Rep. Phil Crane with missing votes on the House floor so he could deliver paid speeches throughout the country. But Crane spokesman...

Joani Heavey of Des Plaines says she is not some kind of reactionary, but when she takes her two sons to the library, she wants to know whether a book...

A mother`s early morning screams awoke many residents in and around a burning apartment building in Vernon Hills on Tuesday. Efforts to rescue residents from the flames were heroic. A...

Kathleen ''Kay'' Wojcik`s progression to political success is a textbook case of climbing the party ladder. Her first rung was joining the teenage Republicans, and the highest rung so far...

If Adam Warren has one regret, it`s that he missed standing with the unemployed on the now infamous line at the new Sheraton Hotel. So when he heard that Jay...

Not long ago, Linda and her husband, Chuck, believed they had the American dream firmly in their grasp. Chuck had a good job as a mover, and Linda worked for...

A three-day FBI stakeout of a stolen car led to the capture of a suspected bank robber Monday and a chase and shootout across Schaumburg and Hanover Park that resulted...

Imagine it: Christmas celebrated on the fourth Saturday of December. Every year, whether it`s the 25th or not. A Hoffman Estates village trustee has proposed nearly the same thing, only...

Nearly a week after a Mt. Prospect car accident left two 14-year-old girls dead and three other teenagers injured, local police and the Cook County state`s attorney have not released...

The other day in a Barrington High School classroom, a sophomore boy slapped the behind of a 14-year-old girl with his chalk-covered hand, planting his fingerprints on her black pants,...