`Like an earthquake in a can’
Screams, gasps and a smoky haze filled Casey Cerniauskas' car as Metra's Rock Island District train No. 504 lurched to a violent stop, sending him skidding down the upper aisle...
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Rituals recognize soldiers’ sacrifices
When Mildred Taylor of Manteno buried her son James Dean Taylor, 42, six years ago in Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, she was filled with remorse for leaving him...
Murder charge filed in brawl
As students streamed out of George Washington High School on the city's Far Southeast Side Wednesday, staff members and police officers bellowed, "Clear the property," blocking traffic and shooing the...
Cabdriver’s death tied to quarrel over $8 tab
A quarrel on a North Side street that allegedly ended with a Chicago city worker using a taxi to repeatedly run over and kill its driver apparently started over an...
Cabdriver’s death tied to quarrel over $8 tab
A quarrel on a North Side street that allegedly ended with a Chicago city worker using a taxi to repeatedly run over and kill its driver apparently started over an...
This time, voting was a must, not a maybe
Andrew Szorc spent Wednesday morning in the 32nd Ward office on Chicago's North Side reviewing the astonishing election numbers. Nearly 80 percent of the registered voters in the ward went...
Martin on a mission to wake up Defender
A museum-like stillness filled the Chicago Defender's dimly lit lobby on a recent morning. Then in strode Roland S. Martin, wearing red pants and a black Texas A&M Aggies shirt....
Where we live fuels a divide
There was a time when Walter Sondheim Jr. held fast to the notion that racially desegregated schools would give way to a racially integrated society. That was 1954. He admits...
Senate ponders voting receipts
As the Senate considers passage tonight of legislation that would require the state's new electronic voting machines to produce paper records of cast ballots, bill opponents warn that a paper...
Steele asks ministers to aid budget fight
Calling a proposed budget amendment a "direct affront" to the Ehrlich administration's efforts to help religious groups obtain grants for social programs, Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele urged a gathering...