Stevenson Swanson

As Illinois political leaders made a last pitch in Washington, D.C., for the $4.4 billion superconducting supercollider Thursday, opponents at a hearing in Aurora vowed to ''tie up this project...

Rev. Robert Wesby spent the last week of his life in a manner fitting a man who dedicated much of his life to the civil-rights movement. The 61-year-old founder of...

The news reports said the temperature was ''99-record-breaking degrees'' at O`Hare International Airport and, of course, cooler near the lake. And if that wasn`t bad enough, the ozone levels were...

Despite 16 years` notice, 53 suburban Cook County communities will miss a historic federal clean-water deadline Friday, and several collar-county muncipalities and agencies are expected to fail to meet the...

Most young couples with newborns look for a home in the suburbs. Plenty of space, good schools, that sort of thing. Not only has one young couple chosen to live...

About 200 people were evacuated from their homes and traffic was backed up along a busy west suburban thoroughfare Tuesday when a toxic and potentially explosive chemical leaked from a...

As desperate Iowa farmers sent cows to slaughter to cut their losses, President Reagan named an interagency task force Thursday to report in two weeks on strategies for dealing with...

State officials said Thursday that they were investigating how Laurie Dann, the Glencoe woman who shot and killed a Winnetka 2d-grader and wounded six people May 20, obtained an experimental...

The doors of Hubbard Woods Elementary School were open again Saturday. But this time, instead of a troubled, armed woman, they admitted the confused parents and frightened children whose lives...

Statistics on noise levels at more than 200 monitoring sites around O`Hare International Airport came under sharp criticism Thursday from a suburban group that said the reported levels were far...