Lara Weber

The name of an elementary school in Dallas has been misspelled for 74 years. Finally, it's getting fixed. Phyllis Wheatley Elementary School will at last honor 18th-century black poet Phillis...

If you ever see a suspicious car driving slowly past your house, it might just be Hollywood calling. In an age of amazing movie wizardry, Chicago-based location manager James McAllister...

$50 & $22 Number of dollars per hour to rent a Chicago Police horse and the mounted officer for any traffic control and supervision, respectively. 550 Number of films and...

Mayor Richard M. Daley on Thursday flatly rejected a private pilot group's plan to reopen Meigs Field and said he has no plans to reconsider his decision to close the...

Tommy R. Franks, the Army general who commanded U.S. forces to battlefield victories in Afghanistan and Iraq, has decided to retire after 36 years in uniform. Franks made no announcement,...

Federal authorities said Thursday they have arrested immigrants working illegally at Sears Tower, saying the sweeps were necessary to protect a potential high-profile target for terrorists. Immigration officials would not...

The Wabash Bridge over the Chicago River will reopen to traffic Friday afternoon after a $9 million reconstruction that began in April 2002. The bridge, built in 1930, received a...

Since big film productions may return to Chicago to join an already fertile independent movie scene, RedEye wore out the DVD players and VCRs compiling our top 25 Chicago movies...

2. Man sought in Yale bomb blast FBI agents investigating a bombing at Yale University's law school in New Haven, Conn., dusted for fingerprints Thursday and showed students a sketch...

A state appeals court Wednesday threw out a record-shattering $145 billion verdict won by thousands of Florida smokers against the tobacco industry, saying the case should not have been tried...