Jamie Francisco

The "Dons" are turning 50. The nickname--a Spanish courtesy title for a gentleman--belongs to students at Notre Dame High School, a Catholic prep school in Niles marking its 50th anniversary....

Newcomer Kynedii Kimble got a lot of attention Thursday from curious classmates at Bennett Elementary--and the 10-year-old from Kenner, La., was a bit embarrassed. The 4th-grader and her family had...

The swinging blues band scheduled to play at Schaumburg's Septemberfest this weekend is called the Prince-ipals, a good name considering the guy at the keyboard is a real prince. Prince...

The windfall started with a search for a cheap walker. Kevin Bunte of Hampshire was in the market to find one for his friend's mother, who had undergone hip surgery...

Seated beside Baby Tamia, the 11-month-old girl who was returned to her family from Utah after a bitterly contested adoption, Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed legislation Sunday that strengthens state authority...

A St. Charles East High School student was killed Saturday night and four of his schoolmates were injured in a one-car crash after a birthday party. Christopher Ahern, 17, of...

Dancing to the beat of a taiko drum, as many as 200 people are expected to surround a tower called the yagura next weekend at Mitsuwa Marketplace's 10th annual Natsu...

Four separate gang-related shootings in Chicago over the weekend killed two people and injured six others, including an 8-year-old boy, police said. On the Northwest Side, a 17-year-old girl was...

It was the heat and the humidity--and by the time he was halfway through a double shift making well-being checks across Chicago on Sunday, Sohail Shekha was feeling it. "Today...

With a few well-directed pleas, 17-year-old Mike Ballek is on his way to adding mystery, history and celebrity to the lives of older adults at Friendship Village in Schaumburg. To...