Charles Leroux

Just off South Lake Shore Drive, there`s an imposing monument to a famous man whose hand was felt on virtually all the major political issues of his day. The site...

It never got to the point that sports bar patrons were chanting ''Turn off the game,'' but the 11-hour documentary, ''The Civil War,'' which aired last week on PBS, caught...

''Where are they; where are they?'' Rod Zuidema wondered aloud, guiding the Dutch Dream slowly downriver toward the Michigan Avenue bridge. It was 3:30 in the afternoon, the beginning of...

Since a century and a half ago, when Walt Whitman wrote that ''New York is one of the most crime-haunted and dangerous cities in Christendom,'' the Big Apple has suffered...

Directly across the street from the art exhibit is a liquor store. There`s another liquor store down the block, next to the vacant lot. Cocaine dealers know this multi-ethnic Uptown...

There is no more profound silence than that which fills a soundless church. At the corner of Ashland Avenue and Adams Street, the Church of the Epiphany, like many churches...