Business banking on Bears, Jordan
After months of slow sales, Chicago businesses were hoping to cash in on the city's spectator-sports bonanza Saturday, even as economists warned that the overall financial impact of the Bears...
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Chicago fans get day like no other
Glory is an expensive date, even if you don't count the beer. Eddie Arana, 38, of Park Ridge, and three of his buddies are spending thousands of dollars to attend...
Town’s focus on ball, not Sept. 11
When it was over, the head coach sagged, and the quarterback wept. And they were on the winning team. Leading up to that emotional moment were 2 1/2 hours in...
Anti-terror work revitalizes Los Alamos
This is a place where the mundane and the unthinkable are hopelessly tangled, where scientists who get $10 haircuts at lunchtime design devastating weapons in the afternoon, and men spending...
Berkeley tries to make peace with patriotism
If you thought you knew all there was to know about the University of California-Berkeley--crazy, tie-dyed, hippie-radical Berkeley--then consider Anka Lee. The 21-year-old political science major showed up for a...
‘End of the road’ gets taste of fear
The letter wasn't a scare, really. In fact, Tom Sluiter laughed when he opened the envelope full of baby powder. His 88-year-old mother in eastern Montana had sent it as...
More visitors heed the call of patriotism
As Mt. Rushmore marks the 60th anniversary of its completion this week, the memorial has become a focal point for the swell of patriotism that has followed the Sept. 11...
Back in the air
As her plane nosed into the sky above O'Hare International Airport, Jennifer Weil's palms became so sweaty they stuck to the Glamour magazine in her lap. ("Go Ahead, Face Your...
For the families, wait adds to grief
They talk about their missing loved ones in the present tense and the past, clinging to hope even while bracing themselves for some dreaded harbinger of bad news: a dark...
For the families, wait adds to grief
They talk about their missing loved ones in the present tense and the past, clinging to hope even while bracing themselves for some dreaded harbinger of bad news: a dark...