Meg Mcsherry Breslin

How little Diamond Foster-Graham--an impressively bright but maddeningly defiant 4-year-old--fared in her South Side preschool might appear to be a trivial question. But as new research published Wednesday underscores, putting...

University of Michigan provost Nancy Cantor was named chancellor of the University of Illinois' flagship campus in Urbana-Champaign on Tuesday, but the high expectations she and others have for her...

Six nurses at the University of Chicago Hospitals sued DePaul University this week, contending the school failed to follow through on a promise to help them gain certification as women's...

In yet another sign of trouble for struggling all-girls Catholic schools, Madonna High School announced Wednesday it will close after 51 years. The Northwest Side high school thus becomes the...

Arguing that the state legislature has failed to provide adequate funding, University of Illinois officials Friday proposed a new, two-tiered tuition structure with hefty increases for next year's freshmen. If...

Aug. 1, 1999 The calls started coming in on the Sunday morning in August that a story on Mary Gonzales appeared. Some Tribune readers wanted to send Gonzales bags of...

Loren Walgreen, whose battle against the former CEO of the Walgreens drugstore chain for custody of her children turned her into a public figure, was found dead in a West...

An outgoing man with a keen sense of humor and a love of the stage, Michael Brenner pursued an acting career before shifting gears to become a chef. Once he...

As Metra Train 2251 left Union Station for the western suburbs last Oct. 27, a young man and his girlfriend spread out blue-and-white bedsheets along the tracks some 18 miles...

W.R. "Andy" Anderson, who worked for decades to convince Chicagoans that Viking explorers should be recognized as the discoverers of North America rather than Christopher Columbus, died Monday of cancer...