The Stevenson family tree includes Lincoln's campaign manager, a vice president, a governor and a senator, among others. Sunday, Feb. 5 marks the governor's 112th birthay, and Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III will be speaking at 1:30 p.m. at the ...

It was 1979 or 1980 when White acquired a blocky golden retriever puppy from a breeder in South Carolina and called him Adlai, after Adlai Stevenson. “He always named his dogs after politicians,’’ his son, Chris, recalled yesterday.

This event will be recorded for WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified. Help celebrate Adlai E. Stevenson II’s 112th birthday! The Lake County Forest Preserve District and the Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy will celebrate the 112th birthday of Adlai ...

LINCOLNSHIRE — Adlai Stevenson High School officials and Lincolnshire police are defending the confiscation of student cellphones in an ongoing investigation into the sale and attempted sale of marijuana on the Lincolnshire campus. So far, the probe has ...

Adlai E. Stevenson High School in north suburban Lincolnshire regularly gets acclaim as one of the nation's top schools. But the roughly 4,000 students of the prestigious high school on Wednesday found themselves getting attention for dubious ...

Sen. Adlai Stevenson III in his New School speech, available on youtube, remembers when Congress was not ideological. That was back in the glory days of the 1960's and 1970's. That era began to fulfill on Adlai II's vision of a democracy that ...

What can we say? What should we say? Remember that Adlai Stevenson remark, that “it hurts too much to laugh, but I’m too old to cry”? It’s hard to hold back the tears after this one. As hard as it was for star-crossed Kyle Williams to hold the football.

THIS is no laughing matter. Even so, one may not quite resist the temptation of an Adlai Stevenson quote couched in humour: "A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth." But isn't silence golden when an investigation is on ...

The last true brokered convention took place in 1952, when Democrats selected Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson as their nominee even though he never participated in a caucus or primary. Yet the undemocratic nature of brokered conventions eventually ...

I’m at home now relaxing watching college basketball. I just came from our game today. (Wings trounced Adlai Stevenson, 91-54, in the opening round of the Bronx borough playoffs.) It was good, we played well, had balanced scoring. It was a good way to ...