Oscar Avila

In one of the global ripples caused by Hurricane Katrina, about a dozen refugees from Africa have been diverted from Houston to an Uptown social-service agency. Heartland Human Care Services...

A black house has become a rallying symbol for Logan Square activists worried that the scarcity of affordable housing is destroying their neighborhood. The Logan Square Neighborhood Association recently started...

In a landmark development that raises questions about the notion of country, loyalties and political rights, Mexicans living from Chicago to the California-Mexico border now could help decide a tight...

American tourists used to flock south across the border to ride through the streets of this town in the back of horse-drawn carriages. Now the more common sight is heavily...

Satellites beamed Polish-language broadcasts into Chicago parishes. Bells tolled at midday from hundreds of church towers. And thousands formed a memorial procession that stretched several miles across a section of...

It sounded like balloons popping. Weekly services for the Living Church of God congregation had just begun inside a suburban Milwaukee hotel conference room and about 80 members were in...

It sounded like balloons popping. Weekly services for the Living Church of God congregation had just begun inside a suburban Milwaukee hotel conference room and about 80 members were in...