Daarel Burnette II

The company that produced the "Star Wars" films is suing a Chicago billboard company in federal court for using the term "Skywalker" on billboards and on its Web site. Despite...

An Evergreen Park accountant has sparked a Facebook movement to protest last year's cancellation of the annual South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade -- with a pub crawl. George...

A day after state Rep. Monique Davis, D-Chicago, pledged to return a $25,000 statue owned by Chicago State University, "Defiance" had a new home on the 4th floor of the...

Chicago's traditional July 3 Grant Park fireworks extravaganza is shelved this year, eliminating one of the city's largest communal experiences that brings more than a million people to the lakefront...

Chicago State University administrators are trying to recover a $25,000 statue believed to be in the possession of state Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago). Auditors told university administrators in October that...

Students displaced by the newest round of Chicago school closings won't be bounced to equally dismal schools, according to policies highlighted Tuesday as the district unveiled the next round of...

Susan and Brian Walsh were preparing to leave Haiti after holding a weeklong medical clinic -- where their 1,000-plus patients included a teen boy with third-degree burns after a kerosene...

The onslaught of winter weather is expected to continue over the weekend, bringing wind chills near zero or below. People were being warned to stay inside, and the homeless were...

On walks with his wife, Billy "The Kid" Harris loved to pass younger folks playing basketball. He would take the ball "and embarrass them a little," said his wife, Marianne...

Last September, Miguel Deniz, a laborer at a southwest suburban warehouse, wandered into a Joliet church looking for help. Worker-rights organizers were holding an information session, and Deniz, who was...