Flynn McRoberts

At least 55 demonstrators were arrested Tuesday amid sharp debate about the way police responded to earlier violent confrontations outside the Democratic National Convention. Most of Tuesday's protests were peaceful,...

With a dozen inmates looking on, two Cook County sheriff's deputies administered a series of beatings to Louis Schmude, punching and kicking the self-employed painter as he lay on the...

At the Vienna Correctional Center here, deep in southern Illinois, clipboard-wielding guards count the inmates six times a day. But no count matters more to the prison and the rest...

State officials acknowledged Friday that homeless people from Chicago were admitted to a troubled central Illinois nursing home without undergoing required medical examinations and announced broad changes in the way...

John McCain and Bill Bradley, the self-proclaimed reformers of the 2000 presidential campaign, made final appeals Monday to independent-minded New Hampshire voters in hopes of undercutting their rivals, who have...

As the accents changed from the flat tone of the Midwest to the broad Yankee vowels of New England and the bitter cold of Iowa gave way to a punishing...

Monday night, it was Iowans' turn to speak. And so they did, in more than 2,100 precinct caucuses across the state, meeting in classrooms, libraries, parish halls and cafeterias. In...

The Jesse Jackson Show departed this small, troubled city last week. The media hordes left with him, the marches and rallies ended for now, and the crucible of controversy centering...

After two weeks of rallies, rhetoric and a brief stint in jail, Rev. Jesse Jackson returned to Chicago Thursday, leaving this small central Illinois city to deal with the consequences...

The Chicago school board on Wednesday voted to expel three students for the maximum two-year term, the same punishment that initially triggered a firestorm in Downstate Decatur. But while the...