William Recktenwald

Rev. James McLoughlin Rev. James McLoughlin, 45, pastor of St. Peter Catholic Church in Geneva, was the most visible of the Chicago-area hostages during the 17-day ordeal. Early on, he...

When Rev. James McLoughlin`s brothers and sisters saw a letter from the hostages flashed on the television screen over the weekend, they were not surprised that the handwriting was his....

Ken Anderson, 62, a superintendent at an Elmhurst construction firm, is an amiable man who values his privacy, according to neighbors and coworkers. ''I miss him,'' said Ambrose Bentele, 76,...

To his neighbors at Cabrini-Green, Melvin Anderson was the quiet family man who stayed out of trouble and liked to tinker with cars. Anderson, 24, a streetwise father of three,...

A Nicaraguan rebel leader on Thursday attacked the credibility of photos purporting to show rebels stabbing to death a Sandinista informer, calling them ''fake'' and ''part of a smear'' on...

Photos published this week of Nicaraguan rebels executing a purported Sandinista sympathizer have focused national attention on a 21-year-old Northwestern University student with a right-wing reputation who took the pictures....

Mayor Harold Washington has come up with additional funding of nearly $1 million for the fight against Chicago street gangs. The extra $957,000 would come from surplus federal funds and...

A WEEKEND ARCTIC express that barreled through most of the nation set an all-time low temperature Sunday of 27 degrees below zero in Chicago, creating a day of frostbite, fuming...

TWO THINGS ended Monday night: 1984 and Chicago`s mild winter. Snow began falling in the far northern and northwestern suburbs at about 4 p.m. Monday and by 6 p.m. in...