Dennis Sullivan

Q: What should we do about the holes on the underside of our wood back porch? We think the wasp-like insects we've seen in the holes' little sawdust piles may have something to do with the problem. Dennis Sullivan, Crete A: There are lots of...

Lansing parents whose children are confronted with a 2.5-mile walk to school through heavy traffic met Thursday with district officials about the lack of busing, and most came away optimistic, though no answers or timetable emerged. Trinette Burks, who...

A 3-year-old Joliet boy died Wednesday afternoon after a loaded handgun he was playing with went off in his home on the city's east side. The child, Julius Rogers, apparently was alone in the living room playing with a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun...

The Crestwood police chief under fire for the December arrest of a mother who briefly left her toddler in a parked car while her other children donated money at a Salvation Army kettle has resigned. Crestwood Mayor Robert Stranczek said Friday he doesn't...

Two painters killed while working on a highway bridge over the Fox River in Elgin were identified Thursday as John Maroulis, 44, and Javier Valadez-Chavez, 31, both of Chicago, authorities said. Kane County Coroner Charles West said both men were...

State Sen. Debbie Halvorson (D- Crete) sought Thursday to capitalize on the hot-button issue of Silver Cross Hospital's move out of Joliet by backing a plan to turn the building into a veterans medical center. Her Republican opponent, businessman...

Just a few weeks before the state formally considers Silver Cross Hospital's plan to move from Joliet to New Lenox, the Will County Board on Thursday is expected to endorse a move by local veterans to reuse the facility as a veterans hospital. Led by Jim...

Whatever impressions Pope Benedict XVI took away from his long weekend in New York may influence a big, upcoming decision _ picking a successor to Cardinal Edward Egan as archbishop. Speculating on the next leader of the New York Archdiocese, one of...

Silver Cross Hospital, a Joliet institution since 1892, has unveiled a $400 million plan to build a new 600,000-square-foot facility about three miles east in New Lenox and move there by 2011. With rapid population growth in the area, the current 50-acre...

THINKING catastrophically should come naturally in this year of disaster. Instead, most California policymakers have distracted themselves with relatively minor matters, as with the recent special election. Meanwhile, this state remains vulnerable to...

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