Dawn Turner Trice

Last year, a group of Pilsen neighborhood residents approached special events coordinator Cyndee Fox-Starr about holding a ceremony at the American Indian Center of Chicago. She was surprised to learn...

Ashley Gonzalez, 16, won't reveal her politics or social values on her Facebook page. She doesn't want to be judged by "friends" who don't know her very well. But she...

Nine months before Deborah Jones was honorably discharged from the Air Force in 1982, she said she was sexually assaulted by a superior officer. No charges were filed, but her...

On Saturday, young men who want to talk openly about sex, sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases — you name it — will be able to talk man-to-man during a daylong...

Eddie Mendez used to think of domestic abuse in its most common form: a man battering a woman. But last year, he was convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence against his...

Paul Larson doesn't celebrate Halloween. Instead, he spends Oct. 31 in a worship service that's a ritual feast with offerings of sweet cakes and ale to the ancestors. For many...

Filmmaker Mark Landsman attended schools in the northern suburbs, where he had every advantage when it came to the arts. During elementary school in Deerfield, he had a teacher who...

Psychiatrist and surgeon Carl Bell became interested in the effect violence has on youth in 1976 when a 4-year-old girl arrived in the South Side mental health clinic where he...

For the last two years, Carolynn Conway has been working as a probation officer in the Cook County Juvenile Court's educational advocacy unit. She works primarily with young offenders from...