Flynn McRoberts

Sitting in the aching heart of Cabrini-Green, Jenner Elementary School has for years symbolized what is wrong in some city neighborhoods: violence, crumbling public housing, underachieving schools. Seven-year-old Dantrell Davis...

From the street, the South Side two-flat appears to be one of the better kept homes on a block riddled with dilapidated buildings. Inside is another story. The bathroom on...

While this month's snow and cold left many of Chicago's roadways pockmarked, a particularly nasty crater--2 feet-by-3 feet and 5 inches deep--emerged Friday morning in the northbound lanes of Lake...

For dozens of Chicago Housing Authority residents displaced by the effects of this month's blizzard, the inconveniences had been piling up like so much unmelted snow. There was the shuttling...

In a season of potholes, this one was most impressive--and destructive. A relatively small but nasty pothole emerged Friday morning on Lake Shore Drive just south of McCormick Place to...

Chicagoans are well versed in the history of their blizzards, of what happens when all that snow gets dumped on the ground, hampering the movement of the region's planes, trains...

The letter was filled with the kind of passion and venom that could erupt only from a longtime resident who felt her neighborhood was under siege. In careful cursive on...

When a Dutch prince in Amsterdam yanked off his tie at the opening of a fashion show last week, proclaiming it "a snake around my neck," he set off an...

U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.) worked to re-energize her base of support Saturday by touring African-American churches in Chicago and Rockford, but still had to defend charges by her Republican...

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Peter Fitzgerald Tuesday dispensed a message of social and fiscal conservatism mixed with charges that his opponent, incumbent Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun, seemed to be more interested...