New Wave of Foreclosures

U.S. has complex problems, GOP has simple answers

Clearly, the United States is facing some major problems.

Light pollution outshines

Chicago skyline at night

Joel Phelps

Teachers unions to fight 'top-down' school reform

Members of community group Parents 4 Teachers display pro-teacher posters and banners Sept. 7 outside Chicago City Hall.

Mary Hills

Joel Phelps

Freedom Riders Near Burning Bus

May 14, 1961, Anniston, Ala. — Passengers of this smoking Greyhound bus, some of the members of the "Freedom Riders," a group sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), sit on the ground after the bus was set afire by a mob of people who followed the bus from the city. The mob met …

Documenting history

ca. 1971, Probably U.S. -- Frank Zappa, composer and guitarist for the band Mothers of Invention, in a recording studio

Charles Finley Buying Kansas City Athletics

Mercedes-Benz assembles 125 years

The 2012 Mercedes-Benz CLS-63 AMG brings power and four-door coupe styling to the Premium Luxury sedan market.

Tornadoe

Family Video grows in competitive market

Jessica Roop and her son Alexander look through movies for rent at the new Family Video on Calumet Avenue in Valparaiso.

Family Video grows in competitive market

Family Video employee Katie Banasiak, left, hands videos to Valparaiso residents Jessica and Alexander Roop at the new Valparaiso store on Calumet Avenue. The site formerly was home to a Blockbuster video store. Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in September. "While others are closing stores,…

Thanksgiving will continue 2010 holiday travel rebound

People wait outside the USA Coach bus terminal in Highland last week for the 6:20 a.m. bus to Chicago's airports. Fliers can expect to pay about 4 percent more for a plane ticket this Thanksgiving as compared to last, with an average lowest round-trip rate of $176 for the top 40 U.S. air rou…

Thanksgiving will continue 2010 holiday travel rebound

Munster resident Roland Kwasny, right, and others load their luggage into a USA Coach bus bound for Chicago's Midway and O'Hare International airports.

Thanksgiving will continue 2010 holiday travel rebound

People wait last week at the USA Coach bus station in Highland to board the 6:20 a.m. bus bound for Chicago's airports. AAA says travelers will journey an average of 812 miles and spend about $495 apiece to be with friends and families for Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving will continue 2010 holiday travel rebound

A USA Coach bus to Chicago's airports boards before sunrise last week in Highland. AAA expects Thanksgiving travel to surge 11 percent higher than last year but remain below levels seen before the recession took hold in 2008. Travelers can expect to pay about 4 percent more for plane tickets…