David Mendell

Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Republican rival Judy Baar Topinka argued Tuesday over who could best answer voters' concerns about ethics and how to pay for schools and health care....

Rufus Williams, who rose from Burger King worker to Oprah Winfrey's chief financial officer, has won Mayor Richard Daley's backing as the next president of Chicago's Board of Education, city...

In a new kind of political pork, state officials awarded $12 million to more than 100 non-profit groups, businesses, schools and churches for after-school programs that, in some cases, served...

With the historic legal battle to integrate America's big-city schools being abandoned across the nation, the Chicago schools and the federal government have reached a tentative agreement that would release...

Chicago is in the midst of its latest wave of modern school reform, but the foundation of the city's first sweeping reform takes center stage on Wednesday as city residents...

Robert J. Zimmer, a mathematician and longtime faculty member and administrator at the University of Chicago, is poised to be elected the university's 13th president on Friday. Zimmer, 58, inherits...

Drawing to a close a long tenure at Northeastern Illinois University, Salme Harju Steinberg on Tuesday announced that she will leave the school's presidency in 2007 after a replacement is...

The student newspaper at Northern Illinois University this week ran the controversial Danish political cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. The student paper at the University of Illinois is still...

An early-morning shooting that wounded three male students near Schurz High School on Tuesday has rattled parents and residents, who said violence and gang activity is on the rise. "It's...

Fire swept through Bronzeville's historic Pilgrim Baptist Church on Friday, sending flaming walls and timbers crashing into the grand sanctuary where gospel music was born. The building, a cornerstone of...