Andrew Backover

In what some hope will mark the start of a new era in Jewish and Christian relations, several hundred people from across the Chicago area came together Sunday to dramatize...

The morning after a horrendous minivan accident killed five children of a Chicago minister and his wife, there was only more grief for family and friends: Hospital officials said a...

In a freak accident Tuesday on a Milwaukee expressway, a minivan carrying a Chicago family burst into flames, killing five children and critically injuring the parents and another child. The...

With friends and family at her side, Toni Morse walked slowly toward the white flower-laden coffin sitting at the head of a narrow room at the S.B. Rawls Mortuary. As...

A 2 1/2-foot-high barrier that for more than a year has divided Chicago and Evanston both territorially and philosophically, began coming down Tuesday. But the Howard Street wall could go...

The Chicago Park District, which has already slashed nearly 1,000 employees from its work force in the past 13 months, is exploring further workforce reductions through privatization of its harbors,...

Now that a U.S. invasion of Haiti is off and the Caribbean nation's military leaders have agreed to step down, Haitians living in Chicago appealed to President Clinton on Sunday...