Peter Kendall

As the residents of this tiny, western Illinois town waited for the state to force a beef-processing plant to clean up its offensive odors, they received a letter from a...

Three winters of meager snows and measly rains around the Great Lakes have driven water levels to their lowest point in years, giving Lake Michigan extraordinarily wide beaches but comically...

Though the storm that whipped through Chicago Friday had been predicted for days, it did not behave exactly as meteorologists had expected. The season's heaviest snow arrived later than forecasted...

Despite improvements, Commonwealth Edison's infrastructure of wires and transformers remains so old and overburdened that blackouts could be a problem again this summer, an energy consultant warned the Illinois Commerce...

Thousands of workers switched on computers Monday for the first time this year and were greeted by something potentially horrifying--a routine day at the office. In schools and skyscrapers alike,...

In command centers set up around Chicago in anticipation of problems from the Y2K computer bug, there was little for anyone to do as the New Year rolled in with...

On the eve of a new millennium, as the nation girded for the most unusual New Year's observance in its history, federal authorities expanded their investigation of an Algerian man...

With their Mars Polar Lander presumed dead, NASA bosses said Tuesday that they were scrapping their timetable for future missions and rethinking their entire Mars exploration program. NASA has spent...

A massive bird kill Downstate that was first blamed on the weather has been traced to grain laced with insecticides and cast across a farm field, state officials said Wednesday....

The family of Ana Flores, who was killed last week by a piece of glass that fell from a Loop skyscraper, filed a lawsuit today against CNA Financial Corp., the...