As the economy continues to slide, 71 percent of Americans are cooking at home and eating out less often, according to the Grocery Shoppers Trends 2008 report released earlier this month. During its annual gathering in Las Vegas, the Food Marketing ...

Chicago's top federal bank official said Monday he sees hopeful signs for the local economy by early next year. But it was the short-term that he and many of the 200 or so regional business leaders in his audience had on their minds. Charles L. Evan...

TAMPA, Fla. -- Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, his gallery representative said Tuesday. He w...

Bartlett's Dan Karys is bound and determined to provide bulletin board material. Normally that's not good. But this junior long and triple jumper, who for the past two weeks has extended either personal-best distances or school records, gets to see ...

One of the freshmen on the Harper College men's track and field team was looking at the possibilities of repeating as NJCAA Division III national champions this weekend in Delhi, N.Y. He looked at some of the times and distances and figured Harper m...

Nick Herron didn't exactly jump at the chance to compete in track and field at Harper College. Herron initially planned to join the team after claiming a ninth-place medal at the 2006 Class AA IHSA state meet in the high jump as a Fremd senior. Then...

Ronnie Kroell's recent stint on Bravo's reality TV show "Make Me a Supermodel" isolated the Harper College grad from -- well -- reality. Kroell, who'll be at the Palatine college today to host its 2008 fashion show, spent three months taping the sho...