Patrick Reardon

Rookie bus driver Ben Perry has been suspended without pay for three days by the Chicago Transit Authority for failing to follow emergency procedures when a 9-year-old girl suffered a...

On Thursday, after Mae Hobson had told her story one more time, she bent over, buried her face in her hands and wept. ''I tried,'' she said, and could say...

The controversy surrounding the fatal shooting of Calvin Parks Monday by Chicago police illustrates the profound responsibility that police officers must exercise when using deadly force. It is a responsibility...

The Roman Catholic church in Chicago and elsewhere in the country has relied so heavily on bingo and other gambling games to raise money because Catholics traditionally have contributed less...

A scrap metal firm that has failed to pay the City of Chicago a penny for nearly 150,000 abandoned cars and trucks it removed from city streets during a four-year...

Soviet officials appear to have started a mass evacuation of children from Kiev because of fears of radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl reactor 80 miles away, according to a former...

Operation PUSH has moved to capitalize on its boycott of CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago by beginning negotiations with stations in Philadelphia and New York that are also owned by the...

Disciples of the ultra-right, anti-communist Lyndon LaRouche gloated Wednesday after unofficial returns showed the group apparently winning stunning victories in the races for nomination to two major state offices in...

Diane Miller remembers meeting Janice Hart. It was about three weeks ago, and Miller was working in the campaign headquarters of Aurelia Pucinski, the slated candidate for the Democratic nomination...

Judy Koehler had a quartet, called Wine and Roses, for her victory party Tuesday night, but a convention of psychiatrists kept the musicians silent for most of the evening. It...