Frank James

David Lee and his friends wanted to give their guests a New Year's Eve alternative to barhopping in Chicago by car. So they rented a restaurant to host a party...

The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday voted to shift control of all its adult and continuing education programs, including Washburne Trade School, to the City Colleges of Chicago. The...

Chicago Public Schools teachers said they would return to work Tuesday without a contract, but the teachers' union stopped short of agreeing to show up the next day when classes...

If anyone knows the man who roller-skated from Chicago to the Eastern Seaboard to attend the 1963 March on Washington, please tell him Syd Finley is looking for him. Finley,...

Police investigating the killing of Michael Jordan's father, James, are working on the theory that he was slain in an act of random violence unconnected to his world-famous son and...

There was nothing subtle about Willie Lloyd's exit from state prison. The reputed Chicago gang leader wore a leather outfit and a mink coat, and he rode from Downstate Illinois...

Rev. Henry M. Williamson`s resignation this month as president of Operation PUSH marks the latest chapter in the history of the embattled and controversial civil rights organization whose future is...

Those who know the University of Chicago and its president-elect think the choice of Hugo Sonnenschein to head the 100-year-old institution is a marriage made in academic heaven. Of course,...

The University of Chicago is expected on Friday to name Hugo Freund Sonnenschein, Princeton University`s provost, to succeed Hanna Holborn Gray as the 11th president of the century-old institution. The...

After a week of defending herself against charges that she improperly handled her mother`s finances, Carol Moseley Braun said Monday at a major fundraiser that too many people`s hopes are...