Melita M. Garza

A group of Chicago-area Democratic representatives on Thursday challenged Gov. Jim Edgar to allow consideration of more than one education funding bill during the special session of the legislature he...

Wide-eyed, soft-spoken Louise Woodward, an au pair from Britain, came across on national television more as a typical teenager than murderer. And her conviction late Thursday for killing the 8-month-old...

Former Chicago Police Supt. LeRoy Martin announced Monday he was switching political parties and would run as a Republican candidate for Cook County sheriff. Asked why he was running as...

When an obscure Texas pianist named Van Cliburn won the Soviet Union's biggest music competition in Moscow in 1958, he instantly became an American hero, greeted in New York with...

For years, Public Enemy No. 1 in these parts was a gray-coated creature called "el lobo." Ranchers and bounty hunters wanted it only one way: dead. But next year, after...

On this date Chicago began its 94-year reign as the nation's "Second City." The 1,099,850 souls the United States Census counted in Chicago represented a 119 percent increase over the...

A group of Latino civic leaders Thursday questioned whether the Chicago Public Schools chief acted legally when he appointed an interim principal at Clemente High School. "The law does not...

A square block on the South Side where the Sisters of Mercy lived and prayed for about 100 years has been anything but the object of serenity for the last...

Voters in Illinois stayed away from the polls in record numbers Tuesday, providing the lowest turnout in an election year in the state's history, officials said. Using excuses ranging from...

Eva Flores stood at the top of her stairway Monday, looking plaintively at her husband. "Don't go outside, Jesus," she whispered in Spanish. "What if they see you?" Ten days...