Sue Ellen Christian

Still jolted by Mayor Richard Daley's pre-emptive move to lock up control of Chicago's airports in a unique agreement with Gary, the Republican-dominated Illinois state legislature will reconvene Tuesday in...

In April 1975, George Halas, the founder and owner of the Chicago Bears, unveiled a proposal to move his professional football team to northwest suburban Arlington Heights. Mayor Richard J....

The notion has the ring of the Middle Ages but is aimed at some of the most contemporary ailments of the 20th Century: traffic, noise, drugs, gangs. A fence has...

During his 41 years in Arlington Heights, Arnold Rusten's life has been intertwined with that of his neighbor on Euclid Avenue: Arlington International Racecourse. Through the years, Rusten, 78, has...

Investigators and search teams began to slog their way through a muddy soybean field near this northwest Indiana town Tuesday morning, combing the area for clues and victims from a...

Democratic candidate for governor Dawn Clark Netsch called Wednesday for Gov. Jim Edgar's administration to release an Illinois State Police report on the head of a Downstate veterans home. On...

The Weaver home in Upper St. Clair, Pa., normally abuzz on weekends with sounds of neighborhood children playing in the yard, stands silent now, its garage door shut and windows...

It's known as the Hillside Choker to some of the motorists who endure the long, painful, almost suffocating traffic jams each day. Others have their own, often unprintable, nicknames. But...

Years of research experience indicate that it is rare to find a casual link between a building and any illnesses suffered by its occupants. So perhaps it was not surprising,...

Dogged by disclosures of former top employees receiving lucrative benefits paid by tollway travelers, the Illinois Toll Highway Authority took the first step Thursday to suspend its controversial double pension...