Oscar Avila

In a neighborhood full of families, it was the children who apparently first noticed someone new had moved into the rented yellow-vinyl house on Joliet's far west side. They told...

The battles don't get easier for Horacio Esparza, the disability-rights advocate and radio host profiled here in July ("Strong will, strong voice," July 19). Recently, Esparza and other advocates learned...

There's a yellowing picture from 1968 in a scrapbook that shows 11-year-old Amelia Hernandez breaking the tape at Soldier Field to win a gold medal at the first Special Olympics....

From illegal immigrant to congresswoman? Elvira Arellano, the controversial activist who spent a year in a Humboldt Park church in an unsuccessful bid to avoid deportation, is running for a...

One year ago Tuesday, a landmark raid on a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, served as a dramatic display of U.S. intent to enforce laws against illegal immigration. Nearly...

Tokyo The city has financial and technical aspects of hosting covered, but public apathy could prove to be a problem By Kathy Bergen, Tribune reporter Seiko Hashimoto was born just...

The man seeking to make history as El Salvador's first liberal president since its civil war has a new "running mate." And it's one he'd rather run away from: Venezuela's...