Deborah Horan

As news spread of the death of Pope John Paul II, people across the Chicago area talked with Tribune reporters about the man who held the papacy since 1978. On...

Cortnee Smith, a high school honors student, last year had her mind set on joining the National Guard. Her parents supported her. Friends in the Army told her what to...

Capt. Troy O'Donley stood on crutches and an artificial hip as he greeted the soldiers he had commanded until last April. Leaning on one foot, the other set in a...

Mayor Richard Daley said Saturday he would halt all street repaving projects by city employees and assign their work to private contractors because he is "sick and tired" of public...

Firefighters found the bodies of a man and woman Saturday afternoon after extinguishing a blaze in an apartment on the Far Northwest Side. Emergency workers found the bodies in a...

Up and down Harlem Avenue, where Arabic script competes with English and Arabic-language television blares, the talk this week was all about a world without Yasser Arafat. Now, with Arafat's...

Although news of Yasser Arafat's death was expected eventually, it still seemed unbelievable to some in the Chicago area when it came Wednesday. "I think since Nov. 4, I've heard...

Michigan voters packed polling stations in a battleground state that President Bush had dearly wanted to wrest from the Democrats. Despite the GOP push, Democrat John Kerry was clinging to...

Najib Chedid could tune in any number of cable news stations to find out where the presidential candidates stand on the issues. He could look to the major American networks,...

The worst attack yet on Illinois Army National Guardsmen serving in Iraq left two soldiers dead and 15 wounded, and it left the Downstate town where their unit is based...