Kayce T. Ataiyero

Ann Vallejo says she sends her son Tony to Midway Academy because she values the quality education and personal attention he gets there. When she learned that the school might...

A South Side mother accused of beating her 2-year-old son to death was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail Monday as new details emerged about her teen years...

In a case that has been a saga of delays and false starts, R. Kelly's trial was postponed yet again on Tuesday, with no trial date in sight more than...

In a symbolic move to erase the controversial "n-word" from the English vocabulary, the NAACP held a mock funeral in Detroit on Monday, complete with a horsedrawn carriage and a...

An Elgin-based community group that recently joined the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition held a rally Monday to encourage membership and use the civil rights organization's influence to spotlight racial inequity. The group,...

Four days after more than a dozen heavily armed police officers raided her Elgin home, Betty Granger got the news she was waiting for early Thursday: The city would repair...

When Mary Hughes, a white woman from Minnesota, married her husband Millard, a black man from Houston, she knew they would have to make compromises to navigate a society still...

Every one knows the Super Bowl is one gigantic party. And since the 2001 terrorist attacks, law-enforcement officials have faced a difficult challenge--allowing revelers to have their fun while making...

For days now, phone calls have poured into the Raging Buffalo Snowboard Park in Algonquin, needy voices full of longing for even the smallest patch of white powder. "Most people...

Voters in a Barrington area school district probably will be asked again next spring to approve a bond issue and property-tax increase to ease middle-school overcrowding, an official said Wednesday...