William Recktenwald

Winds gusting up to 62 miles an hour whipped Lake Michigan waves up and over the city`s shoreline Sunday. The high water closed Lake Shore Drive, caused a traffic nightmare...

Blustery winds whipped Lake Michigan waves up and over the lake`s shoreline in Chicago Sunday morning, flooding large portions of Lake Shore Drive and sending water into the ground floors...

Friends of the Parks, a not-for-profit watchdog group, will ask the Chicago Park District board Monday to impose an immediate freeze on the hiring of top management personnel in an...

A man on probation for a 1985 armed robbery conviction was being held Thursday on charges of attempted murder for allegedly shooting at two police officers as they stepped from...

Five persons died in Chicago area automobile accidents in the first two days of the Christmas holiday period, police said Thursday night. Chicago police reported 99 persons were injured in...

A steady stream of blue city tow trucks moved in and out of Lincoln Park Tuesday removing the last of some of the 1,614 abandoned autos and trucks towed to...

An unusually light voter turnout, coupled with complaints and confusion over unopened polling places and election judges who failed to report for duty, marked the early hours of balloting in...

Lake County was declared a state disaster area Sunday by Gov. James Thompson as a result of the torrential downpours late last week that flooded streams and rivers, chased nearly...

Adlai Stevenson said Sunday that Gov. James Thompson was largely responsible for the dramatic increase in the number of deaths resulting from child abuse last year in Illinois. At a...

Gubernatorial candidate Adlai Stevenson lashed out Wednesday at Gov. James Thompson`s proposed cuts in the state mental health budget, calling them ''heartless and stupid.'' During a news conference outside the...