Ofelia Casillas

After a 50-year absence, picky purple martins--hand-sized birds with an oversized appetite for insects--have made a home in several Chicago parks this spring, flocking to posh avian three-flats designed to...

Eve Tucker has downed 11 beers. Her left little toe is bleeding from a cut from a broken beer bottle. It's 1 a.m., and the bar has closed. But Tucker...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago did not immediately launch an investigation into charges that a Northwest Side priest molested several children in one family in 1999, instead relying on the...

For the first time in more than 40 years, international flights will depart Friday from Midway Airport with service to Mexico, although the airlines offering the new service are not...

Asir Santiago's family of seven was living comfortably on his construction worker's salary, but then the car died, he was laid off and he had to have a tumor removed...

Decades after his death, Martin Luther King Jr.'s message moved generations of Chicago-area residents Monday--some who witnessed his acts, others who read about them in history books. "One of my...

Broad rays of rich October sunshine brightened the Pentagon on Thursday, but the warmth only illuminated the grief of hundreds of military officers, politicians and ordinary Americans who came to...

Marie Marsalli marched in the Columbus Day parade. Tourist Matt Dunn stared at the John Hancock Center and wondered whether to go up to the observatory. Marco Belmontes gave blood...