Louise Kiernan

Behind the doors of the twin brownstones at 2131-33 S. Dearborn St., Minna Everleigh gave her final instructions: "You have the whole night before you and one $50 client is...

Inside a drab blue cinderblock building in this Downstate industrial town, the rhetoric about late-term abortion meets reality. The reality for the 27-year-old preacher's daughter was that she needed $870...

Outside the dilapidated mansion at Halsted and Polk Streets, the neighborhood was choked with immigrants working in sweatshops and sleeping in cramped apartments, a place where smallpox ran rampant and...

Six-year-old Ariel Kerby of north suburban Lake Villa stood in her fluorescent orange jumpsuit and assumed the beauty pageant photo position: one foot perpendicular to the other, chin up, a...

The instructions in the letter Oscar Lipscomb received that day in 1980 were clear. To accept his new assignment, Lipscomb was to send his superiors in Washington a telegram with...

The son of an immigrant Italian stonecutter, Joseph Bernardin grew up in the South and described himself as twice an outsider because of his heritage and religion. His family was...

On Saturday afternoon, two days before the Democratic National Convention was to open in Chicago, police and protesters faced each other outside the infamous Hilton & Towers on Michigan Avenue....

Now begins the era of welfare as we don't know it. On Thursday, the Senate approved and sent to President Clinton a welfare-reform bill that dismantles the 61-year-old federal guarantee...

Honey, it's raining. Don't forget your "portable protection against bad weather, made of silk or similar material fastened on slender ribs, which are attached radially to a stick and can...

His favorite seat? In the back, behind the rear door. Window, not aisle. Because seeing, not getting there, is the point of Tom Arndt's trip. If the gurgling speaker of...