Andrew Gottesman

A 15-year-old was ordered held on $1 million bond Wednesday night for allegedly beating to death his 7-week-old daughter. Dwayne Loyde of 5724 S. Lowe Ave., who was charged with...

At age 13, Willie Clayborn was young enough to need the touch of his mother`s hand to wake up for school each morning and a phone call from his 7th-grade...

Each day after finishing classes at Rosa L. Parks Middle School in Dixmoor, Catresa Matthews would visit her grandmother, who lived a few blocks from the school. After having dinner...

When a doctor told Charles L. Wessel last April that brain cancer might take his life within a year, he made up his mind to keep working. For a while,...

Spurred by growing public demand and a new federal law, handicapped-accessi ble playgrounds-a new generation of play lots with swings that can be propelled by the upper body and ramps...

Political junkies grumble that 1992 isn`t like 1858, when Abraham Lincoln and Sen. Stephen A. Douglas squared off across Illinois in seven, 3-hour senatorial debates that have become the official...

Many of the Polish-Americans who voted for George Bush four years ago are unconvinced that the country needs a change, judging by the extremely warm reception and praise the president...

While most of the negotiators, deal makers and supporting players who came to Mayor Richard Daley`s office Saturday knew they were in for a long session, one came well prepared...

The meeting was publicized only through word of mouth, mostly at taxi stands. One driver heard about it while in line at O`Hare International Airport. He passed the message along...

One was a veteran of Chicago`s streets looking forward to retirement, the other a relative rookie from a small town just beginning a new career. Two hundred miles apart, two...