Flynn McRoberts

A South Side public hearing on school reform, sponsored by a group of black public officials, became a confrontation Monday night between politicians and frustrated parents when no members of...

Two people were killed and 20 were injured-6 of them children-in separate fires that struck a 3-story residental hotel on the South Side and a 28-story apartment building on the...

Des Plaines aldermen and residents got their first look this week at a revised plan to redevelop a mostly vacant downtown block-a project one city development official said would give...

To Wes Meador, it looked like just another one of those annoying, incomprehensible Christmas toys when his wife bought the original Dungeons & Dragons box set for their son, Chris,...

Despite a just-ended U.S. District Court trial involving a Lyons strip joint, it seems that little has changed in the western suburb`s steamy image. During testimony in the four-week trial...

Authentic Irish food was in short supply this weekend at Irish Fest, the annual ethnic festival at Navy Pier, but two other offerings from the Emerald Isle were plentiful: brogues...

Two F-4 Phantom fighter jets flying south over Chicago-pushed past the speed of sound when their pilots realized they were going to be late for work- startled thousands of residents...

Thousands of Chicago schoolteachers, dressed in sandals, shorts and sundresses, reported to work Saturday to make up time lost in last fall`s record 19-day strike. It was the first time...

More than 17 percent of the homeowners in affluent Oak Brook have been ticketed this week for not following sprinkling rules and, by doing so, have lowered the town`s water...