Nancy Ryan

Rev. Robert Wesby spent the last week of his life in a manner fitting a man who dedicated much of his life to the civil rights movement. The 61-year-old founder...

A senior student was shot Thursday when a gun accidentally discharged as it was being passed among students in an art class in Martin Luther King High School, 4445 S....

Gary police were searching Friday for a police department jailer suspected of shooting the city`s maintenance director to death outside his office. The dead man, John Grigsby, 64, also a...

Despite indications by both sides in the Chicago school strike that they would bargain around the clock in hopes of ending the walkout by Monday, talks between the Chicago Board...

Mayor Harold Washington Wednesday called upon both sides in Chicago`s seven-day school strike to reach a settlement that would allow schools to open by Monday. It was the mayor`s most...

A group of parents Wednesday urged Mayor Harold Washington to demand round-the-clock negotiations to end the nine-day school strike and allow classes to resume by Monday. A spokesman for the...

The threat of a Chicago teachers strike has students, who had hoped to spend the week trying out new school supplies, catching up on gossip and sizing up teachers, preparing...

As many of the estimated 300,000 illegal aliens living in Chicago prepare for the nationwide program that will allow them to stay in the country legally, the Chicago Board of...

Sports-minded Chicagoans can only sip hot liquids and dream of what might have been on Super Bowl Sunday. It might have been a rosy 65 degrees and sunny in Pasadena,...

Spoiled by unseasonably warm weather last month, Chicago residents Saturday retrieved their shovels and dusted off their snowblowers as the city recovered from a wet, heavy snow. Blanketed in white...