Peter Kendall

In the end, round-the-clock care by a veterinary staff and an outpouring of concern from an anxious yet hopeful public couldn't buoy the sinking health of a baby beluga whale...

The paperwork accompanying the little gray stray dog said that a cop had found her scrounging around Taste of Chicago, which helped explain how an animal that stood less than...

Those hoping to find bracing, fresh air this summer in vacation spots such as Door County, Wis., or Saugatuck, Mich., will instead find smog--in some cases worse than in the...

Commonwealth Edison CEO John Rowe said Monday that the weekend power outages were not the company's fault, but his "gut" told him that the utility should reimburse people for spoiled...

Even as Commonwealth Edison encourages people to file reimbursement forms for food spoiled during weekend blackouts, the utility has not yet decided whether to fight those claims before the Illinois...

The city's top honchos will spend New Year's Eve together in a small, indestructible room on the West Side, watching computer images of police cars and fire engines zip around...

The spring pep rally at Glenbard North High School was an insignificant casualty of the Littleton, Colo., shootings, but it was a casualty, nonetheless. As the event approached last Friday,...

The more than 200 passengers on Amtrak train No. 59 had mostly been strangers. They had been thinking about dinner plans for a New Orleans vacation, a sister's funeral in...

At 53 calories, the Frango Mint never has been substantial enough to symbolize Chicago. A mere dessert mint, it has always followed the city's main-course institutions, the big buildings, pan...

After generations of temporary fixes and outright neglect, the city that works needs billions of dollars spread out over many years just to keep on working. One of the most...