John McCarron

It was supposed to be the routine December meeting of the city`s urban renewal board. Instead it turned into a history lesson, a live rerun of the angst and activism...

The mid-morning sun climbed over the public housing high-rises of Cabrini-Green on Tuesday, beaming its warmth into the display windows of the neighborhood`s newest store, Crate & Barrel. The shards...

Jill didn`t spill the soup. She delivered the tomato Florentine the way they do at the best restaurants. She served it from the right-hand side of the seated guest. Then...

The 2nd graders listened politely to the mini-concert in their classroom, but when the piano concerto was over and Irene Alexander turned to ask if anyone wanted to play, Room...

Tuesday`s news conference about McDome and the evils of low-paying jobs had just ended when a half-block up the street, laundry workers on break strolled out of the ARA linen...

A government watchdog group claimed victory Friday after learning that lobbyists for ''McDome'' have canceled plans to invite state lawmakers to Chicago for an expenses-paid November weekend of fancy hotels,...

Forget those lame excuses about why you parked your car illegally. Never mind your sprained ankle, your back-in-a-minute intentions, your confusion about what is or is not a loading zone....

At the first strains of ''Edelweiss,'' golfers waiting their turn on the first tee at Waveland Golf Course turned to look up at the clock tower. So did some of...

The little dress shop at 7050 1/2 N. Clark St. hardly looks like a product of the latest international thinking on how to combat urban poverty, squeezed as it is...

Chicago`s population dropped by 279,093, or 9.3 percent, during the 1980s, according to preliminary figures that were released Wednesday by the Census Bureau and immediately challenged by the city. City...