Jack Houston

In the front hall of a West Side school, ''a good mother, a good wife and a good police officer'' died in the line of duty. Irma Ruiz, 40, the...

Twenty years ago, Larry Rivers graduated from college, entered the U.S. Marine Corps and went to Vietnam as an infantry officer. On Tuesday, he marched down Michigan Avenue with thousands...

Two of the politicians who would be elected mayor tried their best at the 59th annual Bud Billiken Day parade Saturday, but those along the parade route gave the loudest...

Quick action by the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday ended a brief strike-sandwiched conveniently for riders between Thursday`s morning and evening rush hours-against the Chicago & North Western Railway....

A former inspector with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeking to win back his job contends the agency removed him from overseeing construction at Commonwealth Edison Co.`s Braidwood nuclear power plant,...

Blistering heat melted away two more Chicago weather records-one of which was only one day old-as area temperatures Friday soared past the century mark for the fifth time this year....

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...

On an average day this spring, more than 45,000 Chicago public school students-one of every nine in the system-were absent, school records show. That`s more than all of the students...

You suddenly find yourself with the power to change the Chicago Public Schools. What would you do? This question was put to about 50 people with the power to make...

The Chicago Public School system is a case of institutionalized child neglect. Instead of working to nurture productive citizens, the guardians of the system divert themselves with a game of...