Gary Washburn

With Election Day fast approaching, Monday's Columbus Day Parade in Grant Park seemed as good a place as any for political candidates to meet, greet and rally potential voters. "Jim...

The stack of plaques and memorials that Brian Strouse's parents have accumulated in the 15 months since the Chicago police officer was slain in the line of duty are in...

Chicago school officials are seeking to fire six teachers and an aide as a result of the most aggressive investigation ever into cheating on a standardized test administered every spring....

Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan ordered rodent extermination at all 600 city schools Friday, as health inspections turned up more signs of rat infestation in school kitchens and food...

One day after a federal judge ruled that Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors routinely violated the rights of witnesses, he refused on Tuesday to issue a stay of his...

For the first time in 27 years, trucks will spray airborne insecticides in Chicago, targeting areas of the North and South Sides beginning at dusk Sunday to kill mosquitoes that...

A Chicago police officer who co-owns a controversial security firm and who faced firing for allegedly threatening to shoot a citizen during an arrest has resigned from the police force,...

As the federal government pumped money Wednesday into Illinois' fight against the West Nile virus, the state's top health official predicted the number of cases will rise in coming weeks...

Suburban opponents of O'Hare International Airport expansion, seemingly once on the ropes in the battle against Chicago and the State of Illinois, were filled with new hope and energy Wednesday...

As the heat index reached 104 degrees Thursday, Chicago and northern Illinois broke an all-time record for electricity use, said Commonwealth Edison officials, yet the utility expressed confidence that they...