Michael Hawthorne

Mayor Richard Daley and the Illinois attorney general's office on Tuesday joined a growing list of public officials outraged by the dousing of Chicago River tour boat passengers with foul-smelling gunk over the weekend. About two-thirds of the 120...

The bus driver for rock star Dave Matthews called from the road Monday to say his luxury coach was not the one responsible for dousing passengers on a Chicago River tour boat with foul-smelling muck over the weekend. Witnesses on the architectural...

The fish pulled out of Burnham Harbor was so strange looking that the angler who caught it posted its picture on the Internet. Long and slender, with a grotesque mouth full of razor-sharp teeth, the creature at first glance looked like a mottled cousin...

The Dave Matthews Band, a rock group so "green" it has its own flavor of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, could face $70,000 in fines after one of its tour bus drivers allegedly dumped a tankful of human waste on a Chicago River sightseeing boat earlier this...

It's New Orleans this week. Home of paper-bag-wearing fans, the Neville and Marsalis clans, crawfish Po' Boys, Girls Gone Wild and Super Bowl XX. Bears 46, Patriots 10. Grab your beignets and café au lait. Aiee! This game's in Champaign, I'm told....

In a room normally used to announce charges of murder, public corruption and the like, prosecutors spoke gravely Wednesday about a crime involving human waste, a famous rock band and a Chicago River tour boat. Cook County State's Atty. Richard Devine...