Most of us will be nowhere near Washington D.C. when Barack Obama gets sworn in as the nation's 44th president. To be part of this historic event, you can watch from home or join viewing parties throughout the suburbs. There are a range of viewing o...

A well-being check would shatter officer Ron Harper's perception of Hoffman Estates as a sleepy, suburban farm community. The night of Jan. 11, 1979, the young cop and his partner were dispatched to an unusually still Teets farmhouse. No lights were...

Nearly four decades after his wife, Carolyn, was featured as a Cook of the Week with peanut butter pie and pork chop suey, 76-year-old Russell Schwem is following in her faded footsteps. Since his retirement 10 years ago, Russ has "taken up fancy co...

Bernie Pedersen was growing, just not vertically. As an 8-year-old, he stood about 4-foot-3 and weighed 52 pounds. Four years later, he was 4-foot-5 and 125 pounds. Doctors brushed it off. With a 4-foot-11 mother, he'd probably be small as an adult,...