Ellen Jean Hirst

The Whitney Young Dolphins started the football season 3-0, holding their first two opponents scoreless. The team is scheduled to play Chicago Vocational School on Thursday if the Chicago teachers...

As teachers marched in a picket line outside Walt Disney Magnet School on the North Side Monday, 11-year-old Adina David sat in a nearly empty computer room, playing the obstacle...

As a pre-med student at DePauw University in Indiana, Arthur Paul Doederlein once kept lab notes on paper towels. Students were required to keep notes in a leather-bound notebook, but...

Second-grader David Nesbitt can't debate the pros and cons of a longer school day or explain exactly why his teachers are demanding more pay. But he does know what it...

An energetic black Lab-Great Dane mix named Buddy Miles had a health scare last month after contracting a rare fungus. His owner, Reid Hyams, of Chicago, noticed that Buddy had...

An energetic black Lab-Great Dane mix named Buddy Miles had a health scare last month after contracting a rare fungus. His owner, Reid Hyams, of Chicago, noticed that Buddy had...

Chicago: Sunday morning. One man dead after taking three bullets — one to the head, two to the chest. Cocaine clasped in hand, and more found near his body, police...

Dorian Gray's story would have been drastically different had he been granted amnesty for his sins. Instead he died a deformed, barely human figure, resembling the ugliness of his immoral...

Dorian Gray's story would have been drastically different had he been granted amnesty for his sins. Instead he died a deformed, barely human figure, resembling the ugliness of his immoral...