Anne Keegan

On Nov. 3, Tempo wrote about the arrest of six men that Chicago police suspected were members of a large East Coast-based burglary ring called "The Yugo Gang." The gang...

There are some people, places and things you rarely, if ever, hear about anymore. Here are some terms that are fading slowly but inexorably into the past: Paddy wagon: It...

Welders-those hooded men and women whose torches spit out electric-blue and white-hot arcs-began making themselves known in industrial Chicago shortly after the turn of the century, when steel was king...

There are only two creatures on Earth that wear shoes: horses and people. People began shoeing horses about the same time they began shoeing themselves. "How old are we?" says...

Your butcher knows these words. They're decades old and come from the slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants that once ringed Chicago's South Side stockyards-from the men and women who worked the...

Ironworkers are a rare breed. Kings of the hard hats, they build towers to the sky, parting the clouds as they work. They swing tons of steel, bully beams into...

Assistant state's attorneys not only like to talk, they have to talk. They talk to witnesses and suspects. They talk to victims, the police and the coroner. They talk to...

It is winter, granted. The beaches are desolate-either windswept and pummeled by angry winter waves or frozen solid in the stillness by the cold. But in the summer, in gentler...

Street talk. You can hear it under the Lake Street elevated tracks or at a pay phone at Broadway and Lawrence. You can hear it waiting for a bus at...

Firefighters do a lot of talking-sometimes at the scene of a fire, but more when they're at the firehouse doing the chores, eating their meals or sitting outside on a...