Douglas Holt

Here's a tip for those in the ruthless world of Elvis Presley impersonators: McHenry County lounges could be gold mines. Or so says a Texas firm that has taken market...

The Hobson House restaurant billed itself as an institution, for 30 years serving hearty, homemade buffet lunches in a village that takes pride in its past. But the landlord, John...

When the Christmas tree starts shedding needles as a St. Bernard sheds fur, when the evergreen has lost its sap and worn out its welcome, recycling is the environmentally sound...

Four people were killed, including an elderly man, in weekend violence in Chicago. A 72-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the chest Sunday in a South Side apartment, Wentworth Area...

School officials cannot flatly prohibit students from distributing religious literature on school grounds, a federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday. But a three-judge panel of the Chicago-based U.S. Court of...

Kimberly Globis was told time and again by her former boyfriend that he would kill her, then himself, and that nothing could stop him, according to court records. Early Tuesday...

A regional planning agency called on the city to seize on the proposed reconstruction of the Lake-Englewood-Jackson Park elevated-the "Green Line"-as a chance to launch an economic revitalization of communities...

A 37-year-old man on parole for aggravated assault was charged with the same offense Tuesday in connection with the shooting of a 13-year-old boy who was chasing a cat, police...

Like many other youngsters her age, 10-year-old Shannon Burns was fighting a losing battle with the neighborhood bullies. She was fed up. So on Friday, the pony-tailed tomboy loaded her...

When Yolene Cadichon read aloud a memorandum crudely taped to the front door of Gale Community Academy Wednesday, her 6-year-old daughter Milauncre began to cry. Dear Parents: I have been...