Flynn McRoberts

They're as likely to spread the political word at prayer groups as they are at precinct meetings. The medium for their message isn't professional TV spots, but rather homemade audio...

It was national news in 1994 when a white family accused of harassing for years an African-American and Puerto Rican couple next door agreed to move from their longtime Northwest...

The Oct. 18 slaying of 31-year-old Richard Will of Chicago Heights is being investigated by the Illinois State Police and the Cook County state's attorney's office after questions were raised...

Name: Joseph Shuldiner Job: Executive director of the CHA Joseph Shuldiner, 50, is giving up the most powerful job in U.S. public housing to take on the most difficult. He...

If a big outlay of public money for a new football stadium is required to keep the Chicago Bears from moving out of town, team President Michael McCaskey can make...

Like a prodigal son returning to a thankful father, private education is coming back to the battered Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side. Paving the way is an Episcopal...

The death of Eric Morse last October refocused attention on Chicago Housing Authority developments as places of great peril for children. To make matters worse, there was this inescapable irony:...

With its selection as a federal empowerment zone, Chicago has become a major laboratory for what could be one of the last large-scale government attempts to pump life into urban...

In McHenry County, voters want the townships to stay. In Des Plaines, they want gambling to stay away-at least according to the early returns. And in Cook County, voters want...