Jason Grotto

University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer stepped into the fray Friday over a controversial proposal to redirect patients from the university hospital's emergency room, announcing steps to come up with...

Executives at the University of Chicago Medical Center had hoped their initiative to divert some patients from its emergency room would spark a healthy national debate. Now they've got one....

When a stray pit bull attacked 12-year-old Dontae Adams last August, tearing a chunk of the boy's upper lip from his face, his mother took him to the University of...

American children with food allergies are suffering life-threatening -- and completely avoidable -- reactions because manufacturers mislabel their products and regulators fail to police store shelves, a Tribune investigation has...

Tuesday's recall of nearly 1.6 million cribs opened a new front in the battle to improve consumer safety by focusing attention on older or reassembled children's products. The recall announced...

For all the talk of weaving public housing residents into the fabric of the city, the Chicago Housing Authority's ambitious Plan for Transformation includes this inconvenient fact: When the plan...

Long before a little boy was crushed and killed by a falling gate at a public housing project on the Near North Side, inspectors repeatedly warned the Chicago Housing Authority...

Less than two weeks after a 3-year-old boy was killed at the Cabrini-Green public housing complex, city officials on Tuesday suspended a politically connected firm blamed in a lawsuit for...

While redevelopment of Stateway Gardens on the South Side reveals pitfalls with the Plan for Transformation, a different approach in another part of town has allowed more residents to return...