A couple of months after returning from his first tour in Iraq, Air Force Staff Sgt. Dustin W. Peters was doing one of the things he loved best: four-wheeling with...
Questioned by police for three days, a former boyfriend of a Glenview woman found slain along with her mother in her home Monday was charged Thursday with solicitation to commit...
Charles Conrad has attended St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Glencoe for the last seven years, but he is still taken aback when people express surprise on learning where...
Despite efforts to slow the march of Dutch elm disease through Evanston's tree-lined streets, city officials knew they were steadily losing the battle. Evanston had 22,000 elms when the disease...
Spec. Philip G. Rogers joined the Army right out of high school five years ago for the same reason countless others did: to pay for college. Rogers, an Army cook...
After a negotiating session that lasted until 6 a.m. Wednesday but failed to reach an agreement, teachers in Gurnee-based Woodland School District 50 resumed their strike as parents rallied to...
Sand eroding from Illinois Beach State Park will not be replaced this year because an environmental group is worried about the quality of replacement sand dredged from near Waukegan Harbor,...
In 18 harried days since a meteor broke up over Park Forest, the Field Museum has led a consortium scrambling to compete with private collectors, rival institutions and sellers on...
The news Vicky Langley and John Gifford of Decatur dreaded hearing was delivered by a chaplain and four Marines in dress uniforms. The somber group knocked on Langley's door at...
Trying to shake a spreading image that they're not active enough, students across the nation gathered, marched and chanted their contempt for the Iraq war Saturday. The national student anti-war...