Graeme Zielinski

On the first Sunday since his appointment was announced, Catholics in Oregon lamented their fleeting glimpse of someone who soon will become quite visible to their Chicago counterparts. Francis E....

Lenard Clark began his rehabilitation Monday with a few halting steps while Chicago police refused to rule out the possibility of more charges in his beating, which investigators say was...

Easter brought in the funk Sunday for seniors at a Southwest Side restaurant. "And why not?" inquired a momentarily defensive Joseph Powell, while a blues and reggae band in the...

Sonia Hernandez was late Tuesday morning as she pulled into the parking lot at Morton Career Academy on Chicago's West Side. Known by her colleagues as punctual and precise, the...

From Chicago-area taverns to cancer wards, from health-conscious doctors to tar-stained smokers, the reaction was stale to news that the Liggett Group on Thursday became the first pillar of Big...

A frantic five-day hunt for two missing Chicago-area college students and three friends culminated Wednesday after searchers found their sport utility vehicle in the Mississippi River only blocks from where...

More than a decade after admirers of Casimir Pulaski managed to get a state holiday declared to honor the Polish war hero, the day still generates controversy and a good...

Local rivers have all but digested the record mouthful of rain they were force-fed last week. The National Weather Service said Sunday that the Des Plaines and Fox Rivers in...

The country was watching again, but this was so much different than last time. On that unseasonably warm October afternoon in 1995, the trial of O.J. Simpson was still on...

There's not much of a commute to work for Jo Daviess County Judge William A. Kelly, who holds court in tiny Galena, a stone's throw from the Mississippi River. Kelly...