Margaret Ramirez

Most customers who came to Pauline's Restaurant in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood could spot the cute photo of 4-year-old Pauline Messier on the menu. The lucky ones met the grown-up Pauline...

Dr. Howard S. Traisman, 87, compassionate Evanston pediatrician, Northwestern professor and internationally recognized pioneer in treatment of juvenile diabetes, died of an aortic aneurysm on Tuesday, Oct. 12, at Evanston...

Jack F. Angell, 90, a pioneer in Chicago radio and television news who was one of the first American broadcasters to tour Russia, died of a heart condition on Tuesday,...

In the early 1980s, as drug use and crime raged in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, community activist Mary Volpe organized a neighborhood patrol to roam the streets and confront the trouble....

Emilio V. del Rosario Jr., 76, a Filipino piano prodigy who emerged in the U.S. as a brilliant performer and then earned a worldwide reputation as a gifted piano teacher,...

In her many leadership roles at City Colleges of Chicago, Saundra Weathers Banyard balanced compassion for students with a tough-love attitude. Mrs. Banyard came to City Colleges in 1985 as...

Chicago investment banker, fundraiser and Jewish community leader Lester J. Rosenberg, 83, died of complications from pneumonia Thursday, Sept. 30, at Evanston Hospital, according to officials with the Jewish United...

Chicago artist Virginia J. Lizzo began her life on a mysterious note, born into the world with no official birth date. She was delivered at home by a midwife who...