David Jackson

David Jackson could use your help. So could Sunny Campbell. Both applied for TV converter box coupons but were denied because of glitches in the system. They are, it turns out, the tip of the iceberg. Since the Problem Solver first wrote about the...

Dear Tom, People always talk about the "Blizzard of January 1967." What snowstorm did they talk about before that one? —David Jackson, Wheaton Dear David, It ranks as the city's fourth-largest snowstorm, but prior to the 23-inch Big...

Residents may have seen Eustis firefighters this week opening some of the city's hundreds of hydrants and letting water gush out -- despite the fact that there was no widespread fire threat. Here's an explanation: Why are firefighters opening the...

A hearing on a defense motion to dismiss murder and conspiracy charges against a Japanese national accused in his wife's 1981 slaying in downtown Los Angeles ended today without a ruling. Torrance Superior Court Judge Steven Van Sicklen continued the...

Riveredge Hospital and its corporate owner, Psychiatric Solutions Inc., say they quickly correct deficiencies that threaten patient safety. But repeated problems were disclosed in Forest Park police reports, inspections by state and federal health...

When a 15-year-old repeatedly raped his 12-year-old roommate at Illinois' largest psychiatric hospital, Annette Stacey saw two victims. First was the 12-year-old—a west suburban 7th grader whose single mother admitted him to Riveredge Hospital...

Southern California stands a much greater chance of a huge temblor in the next 30 years than Northern California, according to a statewide earthquake forecast released Monday. The report, which brought together experts from the U.S. Geological Survey,...

Trying to put his past with Antoin "Tony" Rezko behind him, presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday said he never thought the nowindicted Chicago businessman would try to take advantage of him because his old friend had never asked for a political...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill.—Inside the stout federal courthouse of this Mississippi River town, the dirty secrets of Iraq war profiteering keep pouring out. Hundreds of pages of recently unsealed court records detail how kickbacks shaped the war's largest...

The new buyers of a rundown graystone on the South Side showed up Jan. 9 to look at the house they won at a foreclosure auction. They took the plywood off the front door and went inside to make sure the utilities had been shut off. Then they called the...

Laying to rest the latest parlor game of Illinois politics, a federal judge on Monday made it crystal clear that "A" stands for Rod Blagojevich in the public corruption case against the governor's indicted fundraiser, Antoin "Tony" Rezko. A ruling by U....