Sue Ellen Christian

There aren't many people who can turn their back on applause. In our society, those who can walk away from the equivalent of 1,500 rushing yards in a season or...

To the casual observer, the hundreds of people gathered at a downtown hotel looked like they were just having a good time playing bridge. But behind the trumps and tricks...

This was moving day for the new residents of one of the first planned communities in the United States built after World War II. In its formative stages, the area...

James Heiple resigned as the Illinois Supreme Court's chief justice Friday, three days before the legislature's impeachment investigation of him is scheduled to begin and two days after a panel...

What began six years ago as a court battle over the rights of the mentally disabled ended quietly Wednesday without even a hearing. A Cook County judge signed an order...

As Gov. Jim Edgar took to the stump Wednesday in search of the grass-roots support to prod lawmakers into backing higher state taxes for schools, a scathing state audit questioned...

They called it The Dance, and old-time Chicago precinct captains feared it the most. They hated to see carefully culled voters disappear behind the curtains of elephantine voting machines and,...

With a book of boilerplate language to guide them, Illinois judges seemingly should have little problem instructing juries in murder trials. But as illustrated by last month's high-profile case of...

In Illinois, it used to be that if a voter moved and was too overcome by stacks of boxes to re-register, he or she couldn't vote on Election Day. But...

Republican nominee Bob Dole's campaign released a "Liberal Scorecard" for Sunday's presidential debate. Among other things, the scorecard asks viewers to tally up how many times President Clinton denies that...