Louise Kiernan

For Harry Belluomini, working security part time at the Dirksen Federal Building was one step closer to a dream of long afternoons spent floating on a Wisconsin lake. The retired...

Eight days ago, just outside the Dirksen Federal Building courtroom where a jury had been picked in Jeffrey Erickson`s bank-robbery trial, his mother, June, pulled her son`s attorney to the...

One of the highlights of the Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival is the malunas, a dance of circles within circles. Malunas, which means windmill, symbolizes the grinding of grain into flour,...

The mood of celebration on Chicago streets soon turned to tension Sunday night as looting and violence hit pockets across the city. As soon as people started streaming out of...

About 2:20 p.m. Thursday, Romail Rosario was drinking coffee in her kitchen when she saw a shadow pass by her second-floor window. She looked out and saw a child bleeding...

A shotgun-wielding robber took an estimated $104,000 in cash and government food stamps Tuesday from a Brink`s Inc. truck company messenger outside a South Side drug store, according to police....

The Board of Education`s Audit and Finance Committee voted Tuesday to shut two high schools and an elementary school recommended for closure by Supt. Ted Kimbrough. Cregier Vocational High School,...

Charles Jones had noticed the brakes on his cinnamon-colored Pontiac Bonneville were worn out, and he had casually mentioned it Saturday to neighbors at his Rogers Park apartment building. Still,...

''An abortion of the criminal justice system'' and ''justification of racism in its ugliest form'' were among the milder reactions of two Chicago community leaders Wednesday to the acquittals of...

After failing in her attempts to visit the Art Institute, the new Chicago public library and Carson Pirie Scott`s State Street store, Janice Barton approached a police officer helping with...