Douglas Holt

Instructor Jim Smith suspected something was amiss at the Computer Learning Centers' Schaumburg campus when a newly arrived school director asked how to use a mouse. "He couldn't even check...

The mega-glitch that brought down the central computer system serving 24 north and northwest suburban libraries should be fixed with no major loss of data. That's the good news. The...

Officials of two dozen north and northwest suburban libraries are hopeful that technicians can save a crippled computer system, which for more than a week has left librarians unable to...

For many American families, it has been a once-in-a-lifetime embarrassment of riches. They've watched their personal wealth soar along with the Dow Jones industrial average. But for well over half...

For weeks, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Burns has said he is willing "to put up my record as U.S. attorney against Roland Burris' record any day of the week, and...

In some political contests, candidates dive for the middle. They co-opt the issues of their opponents and render themselves a near-indistinguishable blur. Not so in the Republican race for U.S....

Though the official vote will not be taken until Monday, two Democratic ward committeemen have already cut a deal to replace state Rep. Miguel Santiago, who was indicted last year...

The faces of parents began to droop Tuesday as thumping Spice Girls videos rolled on one after another, hour after hour, late into the afternoon at Planet Hollywood. But the...

Fog and freezing rain have emerged as the most likely causes of a plane crash that killed four Kane County residents, an air safety investigator said Wednesday. "That's something we're...

The two couples' love of flying brought them together as friends and neighbors in an exclusive "fly-in" community in northern Kane County. On Tuesday, the bodies of Clyde and Christine...