Bonita Brodt

Aggressive children are less likely to grow up to have a successful career and more likely to be convicted of a criminal offense. Those are among the findings of a...

Researchers now believe that a chemical imbalance in the brain may be the cause of a bizarre mental illness known as obsessive-compulsive disorder, an often devastating condition that may afflict...

No one has watched the upscale development closing in around Cabrini-Green with a more careful eye than the people who live in the public housing project. With every year, they...

The flags of Chicago and the nation flew at half-staff Wednesday in mourning for the seven crew members killed when the space shuttle Challenger exploded in flight. Within minutes after...

At 19, Freddie Hopkins is the mother of two daughters, Ranetta, 2, and Ransheka, 1. She would like a son. ''Then I get my tubes tied,'' she explains. Freddie Hopkins...

Derrick Williams was uncomfortable living on welfare. ''I didn`t like going to the store with food stamps,'' he says. ''My mom used to send us to the corner store, and...

He chipped his front tooth when he slipped and fell on an icy metal railing near the high-rise housing project where he used to live. His right eye is slightly...

Iris Moore is chewing bubble gum and singing along with a song on the radio as she sits beside a tiny incubator in the intensive care nursery at Mt. Sinai...

Chicago lawyer Marvin Jay Glass has been arrested and charged with felony theft after $8,000 allegedly was stolen from his vacationing mother-in-law`s safe deposit box, police said Monday. His arrest...

Koreans say they are angry and ashamed and feel betrayed that three of their countrymen have been implicated in an arson-for-profit scheme in which three Chicago firemen died Friday. Around...