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A firefighter responds at the site of a tent collapse at Prairie Fest in Wood Dale on Aug. 2, 2015.

No evacuation ordered at Wood Dale festival in fatal storm, records show

June 11, 2018 at 6:27 a.m.

Police radio traffic in the minutes before a fatal tent collapse at a Wood Dale summer festival reveals that officers were aware a fierce storm was bearing down on the...

George Seibel, director of Morton College's Institute for Cold Case Solution, is helping the family try to get to the bottom of Jenna Crandall's 2014 death in Warrenville. Authorities ruled out foul play, but "I felt like Jenna needed a break, in terms of the truth being found," Seibel said.

Retired detective investigates mysterious forest preserve death

June 9, 2018 at 3:44 a.m.

A retired Chicago police homicide detective who runs a cold case unit at Morton College is investigating the unsolved death of a woman found in a DuPage County Forest Preserve...

Points for a Purpose at Northwestern University has raised more than $16,500 in food donations for area pantries.

Students’ meal card donations to food pantries hinder colleges’ bottom lines

June 14, 2019 at 1:31 p.m.

While studying at Northwestern University, Bryan Berger and Dean Meisel considered themselves somewhat detached from the community that had become their school-year hometown, Evanston. In an effort to give back...

John Tosti, owner of Tosti's Transmission, wades into the floodwater after inspecting his business Dec. 30, 2015, in Fenton, Mo.

Mississippi River towns on high alert even as flooding forecast improves

May 22, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

After hearing projections early this week that the swollen Mississippi River might breach levees in southwest Illinois, Superintendent Thomas Springborn planned to move nearly everything from Prairie du Rocher School....

Kyle Ulmer, zoological manager for pinnipeds at the Saint Louis Zoo, right, and a team of animal care professionals collect health data from a South American sea lion on Nov. 18, 2015, at the Punta San Juan coastal reserve,

Brookfield Zoo’s quiet crusade: Saving wildlife on the Peruvian coast

May 22, 2019 at 1:19 p.m.

On a sun-baked beach some 4,000 miles from the Brookfield Zoo clinic where he works, Dr. Mike Adkesson crept over rocks and bones, kelp and bird carcasses in search of...

Mother seeks answers in daughter’s mysterious death

June 16, 2018 at 10:50 a.m.

About 14 months ago, a man walking his dog found the body of Jenna Crandall in a DuPage County forest preserve. Authorities investigated. The coroner's forensic pathologist performed an autopsy....

Abana Tabb, 57, panhandles near the Millennium Park Metra station on Sept. 17, 2015. Tabb is homeless but owns six distressed properties in the Chicago area after transfers by a property investment firm.

Tax buyer deeds abandoned properties to homeless man

June 16, 2018 at 1:22 p.m.

Abana Tabb carries a small cardboard sheet hand-printed with the words "Help Please Homeless" while he panhandles in downtown Chicago, often near the Metra station at Millennium Park. His homelessness...

Internationally renowned quilt teacher Nancy Pearson dies at 85

August 19, 2019 at 12:16 a.m.

While in the hospital caring for a 12-year-old daughter who'd been diagnosed with cancer, Nancy Pearson came upon a magazine story on quilting and picked up the craft as a...

Double-crested cormorants nest in a partially submerged tree at the Emiquon Preserve.

Controversial plan aims to restore Illinois wetlands like Emiquon Preserve

August 18, 2019 at 9:17 p.m.

When engineers reversed the flow of the Chicago River in 1900, sending the city's sewage and related waste away from residents' Lake Michigan drinking water, the metropolis was spared a...

Tribune Co. CEO Stanton Cook, left, and Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick speak at an April 30, 1974, news conference on the Tribune's publication of Oval Office transcripts in the Watergate scandal. Cook, who was the newspaper's publisher, later backed an editorial that called for President Richard Nixon to resign. Cook died Sept. 3, 2015; he was 90.

Former Tribune Co. CEO Stanton Cook dies at 90

August 18, 2019 at 8:25 p.m.

Former Tribune Co. CEO Stanton R. Cook inherited an underperforming company and transformed it into a modern, diversified media corporation that broke with its conservative past, endured a lengthy union...

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