Stevenson Swanson

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Op. 31, in G, D Minor (The Tempest), and E-flat. (Richard Goode, piano; Elektra Nonesuch). It is an understandable mistake to assume that a Beethoven sonata with...

Only a few years ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers never saw a river it didn`t want to straighten and never considered ''dam'' a swear word. In countless projects...

Taking on two of Chicago`s political sacred cows-secret land trusts and metal plumbing pipe-Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday announced plans designed to encourage more affordable housing in the city and...

A sweeping ordinance proposed Tuesday would impose 10-cent deposits on beverage cans and bottles and require that all packaging on products sold in Chicago be recyclable beginning in 1992. The...

The sensitive process for picking a site where radioactive waste from Illinois nuclear reactors and medical centers will be dumped will probably be slowed and changed following criticism of the...

The City of Rolling Meadows did not realize it needed a state permit to operate its garbage transfer station because the facility had been in operation before Illinois required permits,...

Beethoven: Symphony (number) 6 (''Pastoral''); Symphony (number) 1 (The London Classical Players, Roger Norrington, cond.; EMI, 65:51). Beethoven: Symphony (number) 6; Overtures: Coriolan and Egmont (The Academy of Ancient Music,...

Higher electricity rates were to take effect for the 3 million customers of Commonwealth Edison Co. at midnight Sunday, but not until after the Illinois Appellate Court agreed to consider...

A man was killed Saturday on Lake Shore Drive when he was hit by a car as he was helping a stranded motorist. Three other people were injured, one critically,...

The Illinois Appellate Court Tuesday upheld the Cook County Board`s approval of a controversial 410-acre waste-disposal facility near Bartlett. The court ruled that a 1985 law giving the board final...