Polio victims more than survive
Rose Williams was walking with a leg brace in 1955 when she lined up with her classmates to get her first dose of the polio vaccine. She knew then, at...
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Psychiatrist is killed by charter bus
An 85-year-old child psychiatrist walking across a downtown Chicago street was killed Friday when she was struck by a charter bus carrying children on a Catholic school day trip from...
Gunman kills 7 in rampage
It sounded like balloons popping. Weekly services for the Living Church of God congregation had just begun inside a suburban Milwaukee hotel conference room and about 80 members were in...
Gunman kills 7 in rampage
It sounded like balloons popping. Weekly services for the Living Church of God congregation had just begun inside a suburban Milwaukee hotel conference room and about 80 members were in...
Energy prices heat up again
The price of crude oil rose within a dollar of its record high Tuesday, continuing a run-up that analysts don't expect will end anytime soon. Oil prices have risen roughly...
Library pulls up the covers for kids
A picture book with illustrations of animals reading at a zoo and a novel about a young girl traveling to Mexico to reunite with her father have made the latest...
Taxi fare hike is in the works
Chicago taxi owners hit by rising gasoline prices and other increasing operating costs would get relief, but passengers would have to dig deeper under a Daley administration plan expected to...
Spouse’s love, mom’s pride remembered
Parishioners called Rev. Jeannette DeFriest throughout the day Tuesday struggling with the same question: Don't all these good deeds mean anything? Their question reflected the pain they felt at the...
Bail denied for suspect in 3 slayings
A homeless man accused of raping and killing three women on the South Side used the promise of drugs to lure at least two of them to remote areas, prosecutors...
Suspect named in slaying
Chicago police are trying to locate a man in Mexico they believe killed 21-year-old Melissa Dorner, a North Side restaurant hostess who lived in the building where he had been...