MILWAUKEE, Wis. - Former Cubs manager Dusty Baker used to tell the writers if one story wasn't working, we could rip it up and start again. Good thing we use computers nowadays or the Miller Park press box would have been a fire hazard Friday nigh...

Kerry Wood’s mini-tirade, if you can call it that, after Tuesday night’s poor performance against the Atlanta Braves probably will go down as a mere footnote in Cubs history and in Wood’s own storied career with the team. Manager Dal...

Editor's note: This story was updated to correct that Chuck Fossen coached Kerin Ramirez on an Addison youth football team, not wrestling. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. And now, his mother says, he could face 30 years in priso...

DuPage County Board of Elections. Those words strike terror in the hearts of many a would-be politician. Average people, who want only to give back to their community, have to go through a process that is full of mine fields. They have to maneuver ...

Adrian Cardenas made his first trip to Chicago on Monday and marveled at one thing. “I didn’t realize Lake Michigan’s so big,” he said. “First time in Chicago. First time at Wrigley.” Monday marked Cardenas’ first major-league call-up, as the Cubs b...

Fallout from DUI crash ... destitution for Hampshire family On paper, Hampshire resident Francisco Valdez is a millionaire. He and his family were awarded $2.7 million for a Dec. 24, 2008, crash caused by a drunken driver. In reality, Valdez and hi...

We’re not sure the old baseball adage of “hitting is contagious” has any validity. But enough Cubs have been contagious the last few days, with a nasty virus running rampant through the clubhouse. Besides that, about the only other co...

The illness that has claimed several Cubs players claimed another one in a different way Sunday. With Matt Garza recovering from the illness, the Cubs called up lefty Travis Wood from Class AAA Iowa to start against the Dodgers. To make room, infiel...

It sounded like a bomb. That’s how Wood Dale resident Aldona Gallo described the sound of a tree falling on her neighbor’s house and garage Saturday in the 100 block of North Cedar Street. The house and garage belong to Dan and Kim Prochas...

The injury bug hasn't bitten the Cubs of late, but an illness bug certainly has. Pitcher Matt Garza remained away from the club with a nasty virus that manager Dale Sveum said started last week with since-demoted reliever Scott Maine. The illness...