Emma Graves Fitzsimmons

Kejuan Davis was a welcome sight many mornings at Austin's In the Cut barbershop. The 2-year-old would run down the stairs from his apartment to help open the shop and...

When news broke last week that the immigration reform bill in the U.S. Senate was alive again, people on an Amtrak train leaving San Antonio cheered. The immigration-rights advocates were...

Many people who knew Gail Bullock as a longtime South Side community activist said they were shocked after he was charged with killing his estranged wife and injuring his stepson....

It was rare for women to enter the field of science during the 1940s when Jane Overton got her doctorate in biology from the University of Chicago. By day, she...

A man charged in a violent bank robbery described in dramatic detail how a teller was fatally shot in the buttocks, then dragged toward the vault, according to a federal...

Blair Holt's parents went to Julian High School on Monday morning hoping to dissuade students from participating in a planned walkout in protest of the death of their son. When...

A South Side woman who told police that she smothered her 11-month-old daughter in 2001 should be released from prison because the only evidence against her was her own confession,...

Cardinal Francis George was hospitalized with a slight hip fracture Saturday after he slipped and fell inside a Chicago church while blessing Easter baskets, archdiocese officials said. George, 70, was...

Brea Tate was 1 1/2 months' pregnant when her fiance was sent to Iraq. She told an overjoyed Lance Cpl. Jonathan Kyle Price on the phone that they were having...

Even as a restaurateur got the bill for the city's first foie-gras citation Thursday, officials said there isn't much bite behind the Chicago ordinance that has garnered national attention. Doug...