Meg Mcsherry Breslin

When a woman in a wheelchair accidentally fell into Lake Michigan last July, veteran lifeguard Jason Lundelius was quick to respond. With the assistance of three other Chicago Park District...

Maurine Wallace, 75, who gave thousands of newborns their first baths as a nurse's aide for Palos Community Hospital in Palos Heights, died Sunday of a brain hemorrhage in the...

When Gertrude B. Nielsen was only 5, her grandmother passed along the words that Mrs. Nielsen would live by: "Do something every day to help someone else." Until she died...

Ralph J. Cusick, 69, a Chicago public school principal for 28 years, died Friday of cancer in his Rogers Park home. Most recently, Mr. Cusick was principal of Schurz High...

They're calling it a miracle on Arlington Heights Road. Thanks to a local developer, an agency serving the homeless in the northwest suburbs no longer has to worry about losing...

They're calling it a miracle on Arlington Heights Road. Thanks to a local developer, an agency serving the homeless in the northwest suburbs no longer has to worry about losing...

They're calling it a miracle on Arlington Heights Road. Thanks to a local developer, an agency serving the homeless in the northwest suburbs no longer has to worry about losing...

Mark and Sue Moore live with their 2-year-old son in a simple white house on a winding street in Palatine. Theirs is a quiet middle-class neighborhood, with children's bikes and...

An ordinance imposing some of the strictest fines in the Chicago area on merchants who sell tobacco to minors in unincorporated Cook County was unanimously approved by a Cook County...

Developers of a controversial high-rise project in downtown Arlington Heights have begun demolition of the remaining buildings at the site and expect to break ground sometime in the next several...