Marja Mills

With celebrity chefs and chic eateries enjoying unprecedented cultural cachet in American life, Chicago Tribune staff reporter Marja Mills caught up with New York City chef/author Anthony Bourdain and waitress-turned-author...

Perhaps you have seen the orange Wolley cabs adding a splash of color to city traffic jams. If you have an eagle eye, perhaps you even have noticed that "Wolley"...

More than 600 friends and relatives gathered at a west suburban church this morning to remember Harry Bull, a 39-year-old paper company executive from Hinsdale, and his two young daughters....

ComEd this afternoon decided to expand the boundaries of the power outage in downtown Chicago to respond to major problems at a substation that provides electricity to the west Loop....

Sparks from a welder's torch set fire to part of the top floor of the historic Allerton Hotel early Thursday afternoon, sending about 100 firefighters to the scene and disrupting...

The Sister Cities International program, which now benefits from the growing use of the Internet and lightning-quick e-mail, has its roots in another era, a decade after World War II....

Chief among Orland's preservationists is Joyce Lahti, a founding member of the Orland Park Historical Society and lifelong resident of the village. The 70-year-old retired schoolteacher measures many of the...

Some computer sleuthing led to child pornography charges against a 50-year-old Addison man who trains soccer referees for area youth leagues, authorities said Wednesday. A Naperville detective, posing as a...

Teachers had expected that an unusual experiment putting computers in the homes of 500 suburban students would enhance learning. But the far-reaching two-year pilot project, started this fall in six...

For revelers in Elgin who have a little too much of the New Year`s Eve cheer Tuesday, Sherman Hospital is offering a free taxi service just for the night. In...