O'Hare International Airport

Two men were removed from a United Airlines flight from Boston to Chicago on Tuesday morning for what passengers said was "suspicious activity." The men, aboard early morning United Flight 636, were questioned by authorities and returned to the plane,...

Seven town residents participated in the Boston Marathon Monday, including two who said they completed the race shortly before twin explosions went off near the finish line. "I think for people who aren’t runners, they don’t necessarily...

Arlington Heights Mayor-Elect Thomas Hayes crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon just 45 minutes before two explosions killed three and injured more than 170 on Monday. "I walked back to my hotel about one mile from the finish line, and I didn'...

William Friedkin, the director of “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” a pair of acclaimed Tracy Letts adaptations (“Bug” and “Killer Joe”) and author of “The Friedkin Connection,” a new...

Michael Collins had spent time as a police officer, volunteer firefighter and Plainfield trustee before being elected to his first term as mayor in 2009. He had taken a few years off between being a trustee and running for mayor. When he took office,...

Reed Hastings, chief executive of video streaming service Netflix, on Jan. 31 informed the more than 260,000 followers of his Facebook page that one of the great things about New York City is the ability to choose between visiting the Museum of Sex on...

Four of the seven runways at O'Hare International Airport were affected when approach lights kept blinking off and on for about 40 minutes overnight, officials said. Some arriving flights were delayed because of the intermittent outage, which is under...

A Baltimore-bound United Airlines flight was diverted and a local family removed from the plane after the parents complained about the content of an in-flight movie. The February incident resulted in the passengers being escorted off the flight by...

A 41-year-old Chicago man died after he apparently suffered cardiac arrest aboard a plane headed to O'Hare International Airport on Monday night, authorities said. Paramedics were called to the airport at 10:50 p.m. to treat an unconscious patient,...

A week after federal officials launched job furloughs at air traffic control towers, the controllers are back on a regular work schedule -- and airline delays are now caused primarily by severe weather. The number of delays over the week averaged...

The furloughed air traffic controllers are back at work, and now the nation's airlines can blame only bad weather for delays in getting you to your destination. The furloughs that began about a week ago — delaying hundreds of planes across the...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has told Richard Cordray not to bother. This is part of the recent evidence that government is getting some adult supervision. Barack Obama used a recess...