Julie Irwin

Politicians and welfare advocates agree the best place for a teenage mother is in school: what they can't agree on is how to get her there. Gov. Jim Edgar's newest...

Ada Smith, born and reared in Sardis, Miss., arrived in Chicago on an Illinois Central train on New Year's Day in 1945, looking for work. What she saw was a...

Family and friends of Susan Potempa knew the 50-year-old Summit woman was suffering from breast cancer, and sometimes depression, for at least a year. But few knew how ill or...

By Sunday morning, the words were familiar to most who attended mass. The letter from Cardinal Joseph Bernardin saying he was innocent of allegations of sexual abuse had been read...

In Englewood, on a block pitted with abandoned buildings and crack houses, the Burkses were an anomaly, a family that seemed to have saved themselves from the decay that surrounded...

For the most part, police and school officials have succeeded in securing Chicago high schools. But as several recent gang-related incidents have shown, security beyond the school doors is a...