The following items were taken from Naperville police reports and press releases. An arrest does not constitute a finding of ...

Poetry in Motion Steve Schwartz, the owner of Campagnola (815 Chicago Ave., Evanston; 847-475-6100), is almost set to open Wild Geese (1245 Chicago Ave., Evanston), an eclectic restaurant with a ...

DARK VICTORY: Three years ago, Baskis, then a 22-year-old U.S. Army infantryman, was permanently blinded by a bomb while serving in Iraq. Since then, his life has been a series ...

A warm summer night A young couple strolling south down Southport Avenue with a plan to see a movie at the Music Box, a ...

In recent years, Chicago has become a tough town in which to get a liquor license. Credit Mayor Daley's strict policies on booze—and enforcement by a stern and obscure bureaucrat.

Malik Tillman is soft-spoken off the field with his interviews often given at a volume just above a whisper. He spoke loudly with his bloody right foot at one of the biggest moments of the World Cup ...

A short-lived 1960s-era program that transported street-smart Chicago Vice Lords to the hallowed halls of the Ivy League school has been largely forgotten—except by those who volunteered for the ride ...

In my new book Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time, the city of Chicago makes repeated cameos. Patti Smith's guitarist Lenny Kaye told me ...

Jared Ploger will replace Aurora-area state Sen. Linda Holmes as the Democrat on the November ballot after Holmes, who won ...

The sleek interiors of these three new restaurants made us hungry for more information. So we zeroed in on the touches most applicable to residential design and asked the creative ...

A Chicago company has figured out how to drill deep down for "hyper-local" news—that is, the stuff that's happening on your street. But is there a future for this new ...

Starting out with high-end jeans, True Religion eventually added other apparel to its collection, while also making it more affordable.