William Recktenwald

State legislators from Illinois and Indiana passed resolutions Tuesday condemning the Art Institute of Chicago and calling on it to remove a controversial display in which a U.S. flag lies...

Federal marshals on Thursday seized about 100,000 pounds of food that Food and Drug Administration and city health officials contend is contaminated. The action at the Chinatown warehouse of Chinese...

It was the kind of day when you would call to tell your boss you`d be late for work because of the blizzard, and he`d say, ''What blizzard?'' The culprit...

Members of the Chicago police unit assigned to make the Chicago Transit Authority`s troubled rail system safe apprehend an average of only two wrongdoers apiece per week, an analysis of...

A 37-year-old West Side man stabbed two women early Sunday evening on Austin Boulevard near Lake Street, then was shot and critically wounded by an off-duty Chicago police officer who...

A Korean immigrant who recently expanded her gift store business to include a downtown florist shop off Michigan Avenue was found stabbed to death Thursday morning in the store`s bathroom....

A rampaging gunman killed four people, including a Chicago policewoman, and wounded two others during a shooting spree Thursday in and near Montefiore School, 1300 S. Ashland Ave. The suspect...

A Chicago police officer shot his wife, also a police officer, to death Tuesday and then took his own life nearly 12 hours later while talking by phone to his...

The Chicago Cubs, those lovable losers, came up short again Monday night as a torrential downpour spoiled their Historic Event, the first night game at Wrigley Field. ''This proves that...

It was a beautiful day in Chicago. It rained. It flooded. Wasn`t it wonderful? A steady Monday morning downpour soaked parched lawns and provided some breathing room, if not hope,...