Don Terry

Forget about Monday night`s loss to the Miami Dolphins. Bear fans are so optimistic their team will make it to the Super Bowl in January that airline tickets to New...

Winter socked it to Chicago ahead of schedule Sunday as an arctic blast pounded the Midwest, closing roads, downing power lines and converting airports into impromptu hotels. Scores of flights...

It was late 1957, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was at the airport in Atlanta. Like other public buildings in the South, the airport had two restrooms for males....

Derrick Williams was uncomfortable living on welfare. ''I didn`t like going to the store with food stamps,'' he says. ''My mom used to send us to the corner store, and...

The streets of North Lawndale are littered with trash, broken bottles and junked cars. Last year, Ald. William C. Henry`s 24th Ward Democratic organization bought a second-hand street sweeper for...

-- -- -- As dwelling units vanished from North Lawndale`s housing stock, the neighborhood`s population also declined, to 61,500 this year from a peak of 125,000 in 1960. Most who...

After 25 years of virtually unchecked housing deterioration, abandonment and demolition, North Lawndale looks like a bombed-out war zone. Almost half of the housing units there have disappeared since 1960....

It was almost 3 a.m. when Tommy Lee Allen and Donnie Riddle rounded the corner at 16th Street and Kedzie Avenue and spotted Charles Jackson. They knew him as ''the...

This is the story of three men whose lives have come to rest in a vacant lot. Not one of them is older than 34. Slim Ty, Juice Man and...

-- -- -- ''Attention cars in 10. Attention cars on citywide. Stripping auto in progress. 1531 S. Albany. It`s a brown auto.'' Patrolman Lamont Lee of the 10th District, which...