Melita M. Garza

When vacant storefronts in economically withering business strips come back to life with new shops and customers, city officials and neighbors alike usually consider such development an improvement. But in...

Emilia Santana gasped, mimicking the tiny gulps of air her 7-year-old granddaughter, Mariah Ramirez, fought for day and night. "She could never even sleep through the night," Santana said in...

On the spotless glass coffee table inside Lisa Jones' home are the accolades afforded her son, symbols of a young man of promise. There's a sophomore football plaque emblazoned in...

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a key figure in the state's license-selling scandal to 5 months in prison and 5 months in home confinement. Standing before Judge Suzanne Conlon,...

There was a time not so long ago when a federal indictment in and of itself was considered the kiss of death to a political career. Forget the verdict. Forget...

More than 100 families at a South Side Chicago Housing Authority high-rise went without heat much of Tuesday after burst pipes turned the building's 16-floor stairway into a sheet of...

City officials, state agencies and various businesses spent Thursday plotting ways to cope with a winter storm that is expected to bring up to 6 inches of snow to the...

Streeterville residents have formed another organization to fight a proposal to build 370 luxury high-rise condominiums in their neighborhood, and this time they mean business. The new group, Residents Allied...

George Ryan lashed out Tuesday at Democratic rival Glenn Poshard for an education funding plan that the Republican gubernatorial candidate called "legislatively impossible." Because Poshard's plan relies upon reversing several...

With slightly more than a month left until the Nov. 3 general election, the tone of Illinois' political advertising turned even nastier Friday with new attack ads from the Democratic...