St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation

Posted by Hal Dardick at 3:47 p.m. Mayor Daley is headed out of town on trips to Quebec to discuss the Great Lakes and to Casablanca, Morocco to talk with Arab mayors he says face some of the same issues......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama today nominated a longtime Republican congressman from New York state, Rep. John McHugh, to serve as secretary of the Army. McHugh, 60, is a ninth-term member of the U.S. House from rural upstate New......

“Turn Me Down and I'll Spill Everything!” Stay-Away Record Before the record book for the decade is closed, J. Barrington Farrington Arrington, who retired undefeated as a police reporter for the old Daily News and now gets his kicks as the sage of...

A colder than normal North American winter saw the entire surface areas of Lakes Superior, Huron, and Erie frozen over for the first time in years. The cold has delayed the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway and will likely delay the start of the...

The Winter Vault A Novel Anne Michaels Alfred A. Knopf: 342 pp., $25 We regularly hear that progress entails loss. We come across it ourselves every time smog blurs the skyline or the computers we don't really command crash -- something typewriters...

In his autobiography, Martin notes that if Grace had been well, the company might have taken the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. But in 1957, the company dropped its appeal of the ruling, after Grace suffered his first stroke and Homer replaced him as...

SOUTHEAST ASIA Discover the steamy allure of some of the world's newest vacation hot spots on 16-day tours to the legendary kingdoms of Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar (Burma). The Southeast Asia tours, offered Oct. 14, Dec. 30 and Feb. 3, will visit the...

In three months, downtown Chicago will get one of the most significant additions to its outdoor gallery of public art in decades, yet while the abstract sculpture by British artist Anish Kapoor has been in the works for five years, few people in town know...