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High school project identifies Civil War vets buried in cemetery

June 11, 2018 at 10:24 p.m.

Every year around Memorial Day, Harold Schook would stop in the small graveyard overlooking historic Route 66 to place flags on veterans' graves, and his heart would sink a little....

Kent Damore,right, who leads the Chicago Chaos armwrestling team, battles Jose Zelaya during a practice in far North suburban Lakemoor on May 12, 2016.

Chicago entrepreneur puts muscle behind arm-wrestling league

June 10, 2018 at 5:00 p.m.

Tyann Hintgen was holding her 8-month-old daughter, Graysen, at one of her husband's arm-wrestling tournaments when he told her that organizers needed one more person to have enough participants for...

Blue Island resident Lisa Zamora, center, joins dozens of volunteers from different organizations to plant 29 trees along Canal St. in Blue Island on Saturday, April 23, 2016. The Morton Arboretum and Cook County Forest Preserve District, The Nature Conservancy, and other entities are working together to fight tree devastation due to emerald ash borer and related threats, and increase the number of trees in the Chicago region.

After emerald ash borer scourge, campaign under way to replant lost trees

June 11, 2018 at 1:36 a.m.

Lydia Scott logged more than 600 miles in her hybrid SUV last year, identifying tree species, measuring them and estimating their maturity on green patches from Chicago's South Side to...

U.S. Rep. Dennis Hastert, right, meets with fellow Republicans Rep. Jerry Weller, R–Ill., from left, Thomas Davis, R–Va., and Rep. Mark Foley, R–Fla., in his Washington office on Dec. 20, 1998.

Lawmaker Hastert urged life sentences for repeat child molesters

May 22, 2019 at 9:41 p.m.

During nearly 30 years as a state and federal lawmaker, Dennis Hastert presented himself as a champion of children, a hardworking, humble boy from the cornfields of Illinois who learned...

Tiny town 70 miles west of Chicago may bet future on Illinois’ first Native American casino

June 12, 2018 at 3:10 a.m.

Through the window of his grocery store on Comanche Avenue in this town of 950 people and zero stoplights, Tom Wisted has watched the anemic economy force a lumber yard,...

Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is shown as a senior in the Niles West High School newspaper, called West Word, from the 1969-70 school year.

Niles West classmates recall ‘all-everything’ Garland

May 15, 2019 at 12:20 p.m.

When Merrick Garland attended Skokie's Niles West High School in the late 1960s, he was the sort of young man who seemed destined for big things. He was valedictorian and...

Lead keeper Andy Schertz feeds Heidi, a 14-year-old reindeer on Feb. 25, 2016, in her enclosure at the Brookfield Zoo. Heidi already had shed one of her antlers for the year and the other will fall off soon.

Medical advances in care of aging zoo animals lead to difficult questions

May 19, 2020 at 8:17 a.m.

Ramar the gorilla is on Celebrex. Hiss Majesty the caiman lizard has been fitted with a prosthesis, and Heidi the reindeer eats hay soaked in water. They're geriatric animals at...

Gary Sylvester sits on a bench in a deserted South Shore station at Millennium Park which normally would be bustling with passengers during this morning rush hour on Feb. 25, 2016. Sylvester had come from Minneapolis and was trying to get home to South Bend. A heavy winter storm disrupted the running of the South Shore Line trains.

Blizzard hammers downstate Illinois, northwest Indiana

May 25, 2019 at 12:33 p.m.

Franklin House in Valparaiso, Ind., has been around since 1857 in one form or another, and weathered plenty of snowstorms in its time. As far as manager Erik Bakrevski was...

North Dakota oil bust shatters, shifts dreams of Illinois transplants

June 11, 2018 at 4:25 a.m.

When the oil boom was churning in remote expanses of Montana and North Dakota, Andy Turco left college in Illinois to take a chance on finding backbreaking, dangerous and high-paying...

Robert Owens plays with his son Joshua Malik, 6, on Jan. 31, 2016, at Owen's mother's house in Dyer, Ind.

African-American fathers, sons to strengthen bonds in Washington Park project

June 11, 2018 at 5:24 a.m.

Robert Owens sat in a diner near 88th Street and Stony Island Avenue, lamenting the gray stubble on his chin — a consequence, he joked, of the stress he endures...

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