Jack Houston

The lack of interest by politicians, the lack of commitment of administrators and teachers, the lack of unity among parents have combined to isolate the school system to such an...

Two men and a woman died Sunday night in a fire that gutted a Glendale Heights home, police said. The men, 59 and 43 years old, and a woman whose...

Thousands of Chicago-area motorists apparently heeded predictions of terminal gridlock and stayed off the Dan Ryan Expressway Tuesday, leaving die- hard expressway drivers the almost-solitary pleasure of a quick morning...

The Chicago of Mayor Harold Washington`s vision bade him goodbye this weekend at City Hall, where he had made the diverse and the dispossessed feel welcome for the first time....

The Chicago of Mayor Harold Washington`s vision bade him goodbye this weekend at City Hall, where he had made the diverse and the dispossessed feel welcome for the first time....

The scene was one that Harold Washington would have loved: a city united- black, white, Hispanic-paying its last respects to the mayor. At the Daley Center Plaza Friday afternoon, people...

No matter what they didn`t have, the students of Du Sable High School had this: Harold Washington, the mayor of Chicago, was one of them. ''Nat King Cole went here,...

Half of Chicago`s public high schools rank in the bottom 1 percent of schools in the United States in their students` American College Test scores, according to the second annual...

The strike by the Chicago Teachers Union and 20 other unions moved into its second day Wednesday, forcing cancellation of the first day of classes for 430,000 public school students...

As if Chicago hasn`t had enough to contend with in recent weeks, a wave of mosquitoes has followed the Great Flood of 1987, and that wave is expected to peak...