Ellen Jean Hirst

For weeks that became months, parents at Garvey Elementary School protested its possible closing at community meetings, signed petitions and hoped against hope that they wouldn't have to send their...

One morning as Rick Cunningham drove to work at the Chicago Board of Trade, he signaled to a cyclist on his right that he was going to pass the car...

There's a new energy in the women's empowerment movement, experts say, one that focuses on issues far beyond suffrage or equal pay. Women today are asserting that they can have...

The Vatican has officially accepted a gift to Pope Francis from Chicago lawyer Chris Connors: a fitting domain name, popefrancis.com. Connors, who bought the domain in 2010 on a lark,...

It has been almost a month since a bomb exploded seconds after Beth Roche watched her daughter cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon, and the Highland, Ind. woman...

Momence police Chief Timothy Swanson, formerly the police chief in the suburb of Countryside, filed a lawsuit against the baiduhai on Friday in response to articles about a police...