William Recktenwald

The four-door 1985 Olds Delta 88 model had a value of $5,325 on a recent morning as it stood in the Federal Building plaza, 230 S. Dearborn St. But in...

Professional sailboat racing comes to the Great Lakes for the first time this week. Sailors will be competing for $125,000 in prize money in the Ziploc Ulitimate Yacht Race that...

The 37th Annual Experimental Aircraft Association International Fly-in Convention runs Friday through Aug. 3. To be admitted to the flight-line area, where some 1,200 aircraft are on display, visitors must...

Gray skies and a bitter cold wind from the north greeted sailors Thursday in the National Offshore One Design regatta. The three-day event pits nine types of identical boats in...

Edward Forsner sat in a room at the Loyola University Medical Center and talked about his critically injured wife, his badly injured teenage son, his dead baby, and Daniel Carpenter....

A spring thunderstorm accompanied by violent winds swept through the Chicago area in the early morning hours Thursday felling trees, causing property damage and power outages and dumping varying amounts...

Name: Lt. Cmdr. John Byczek Occupation: Coast Guard helicopter pilot and operations officer for Air Station Chicago. Background: Byczek, 35, grew up in New York and was graduated from the...

A station wagon packed with seven children and two adults jumped an embankment on Int. Hwy. 57 and crashed into a concrete abutment early Sunday, killing five people and injuring...

Over the years it has become a common sight lumbering down the lakefront, its 1,250-horsepower turbine engine generating a steady hum as the 45-foot white helicopter, with the distinctive orange...

The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bill that would make it a crime to deliberately display the American flag on the floor or the ground, a direct response...