Kathy Grannan heard some great news on the car radio a few days ago.

I suppose Emil Jones could have stayed in the Illinois Senate and gotten more jobs and contracts for friends and family members.

A news release provoked a profound personal dilemma. Does my fear of fire outweigh my fear of plumbing?

You don't need to be stupid to get mixed up in a con game, but it helps.

Lose your job in Illinois and you gain a debit card. Beginning Aug. 1, the state began issuing Visa debit cards to people who qualify for unemployment insurance payments.

The silence is deafening in the South Suburbs. Since state Sen. James Meeks (D-Chicago) called for a student boycott of Chicago public schools on opening day, the usually vocal educational activists in the Southland have hardly said a word.

Emil Jones will not be standing on a street corner near you holding an "I need a pay raise" sign.

This public school funding thing needs a new approach.If the problem is money, as some folks say, we've got the right guy running the state of Illinois.

Striking at the very heart of the political power structure in Illinois, state Sen. James Meeks (D-Chicago) on Thursday threatened to put protesting public schoolchildren in the lobbies of every business in downtown Chicago, including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Any child who lives in Illinois should be able to attend any public school in the state regardless of district boundaries.

State support for public schools in Illinois dropped to an all-time low at 29.6 percent of the overall education budget in 2006, placing a greater burden on property owners to finance the schools.

Lincolns for Lincoln is the brainchild of 70-year-old Palos Hills resident Don White.

Nearly65 years after James Lefler's plane was shot down in the South Pacific, his family gathered to pay a final tribute to a father who never met his daughter.

Welcome Ken Griffey Jr. to the White Sox ...Baseball is supposed to be a distraction from the drudgery of everyday life, and folks on the South Side could hardly talk about anything but the Griffey trade on Thursday.

Myrtle Beeson, a longtime resident of Park Forest, environmental activist and devoted newspaper reader, has died.

Commuter trains may eventually run on weekends from Chicago to Orland Park and New Lenox.

Are white people in wealthy suburbs going to quake with fear when Chicago public schoolchildren come to town?

When former Chicago Sun-Times and Tribune sportswriter Jerome Holtzman died last week, I eagerly perused the stories about his Hall of Fame career looking for a specific reference.

When Pat Karas installed a burglar alarm system in her home, she never thought it would be an invitation for Cook County to enter through the back door.

Ask the government for a simple solution to a problem, and you inevitably end up with a bureaucratic mess.

What do you see?" Mona Purdy asks, and my eyes scan the space around us.