Donna Freedman

Cynthia Davis joined the baiduhai features staff in 1970 and spent the next 32 years keeping the department going. She ordered supplies, wrote to book reviewers, shopped for the...

Hundreds of residents turned out Wednesday for public hearings on the proposed tollway increase, calling the size of the hike outrageous and claiming tollway officials have remained unaccountable for what...

A boy was killed Thursday in an apparent gang-related shooting while walking with a friend on a South Side street two blocks from the boys' school. The gunfire, which killed...

The contractor operating the scaffold that came apart in high winds triggering Saturday's deadly accident failed to heed the manufacturer's specifications that the heavy rig should be lashed to either...

Steel company executives and union leaders say they are delighted by President Bush's decision to impose tariffs as high as 30 percent on imported steel, but steel customers warn that...

Old Man Winter delivered a messy one-two punch Saturday, socking the Chicago region once in the morning with snow, slush, rain, mist and fog, and again in the evening with...

Plows were ready to roll, airlines were saying they won't penalize fliers for changing their plans and the city's Department of Human Services was heating up some extra soup as...

A security breach shut down a concourse at St. Louis' Lambert Airport for 3 1/2 hours Thursday evening, temporarily grounding 24 American Airlines flights. About 5:30 p.m., an unidentified man...

Police Officer Alvin Perez had only 17 days to enjoy his promotion to detective. On Thursday, the 35-year-old father of three became the first Bellwood police officer to die in...

Wednesday was a lovely spring day--68 degrees, sun and blue sky, plants beginning to bloom--dropped into December. And the record-setting winter warmth seemed to confuse animals and people, as well...