Patrick Reardon

In an attempt to pare the state`s huge welfare caseload by a third, a new state initiative announced Thursday by Gov. James Thompson will require 160,000 public aid recipients to...

At 19, Freddie Hopkins is the mother of two daughters, Ranetta, 2, and Ransheka, 1. She would like a son. ''Then I get my tubes tied,'' she explains. Freddie Hopkins...

When Earl Massel looks at the poor black teenagers in his social studies classes at Flower Vocational High School on the West Side, he is depressed. ''The majority of these...

For more than a decade, federal revenue sharing has been a pipeline of hundreds of millions of dollars in ''free'' money for Chicago and its suburbs. But the pipeline may...

Rev. James McLoughlin Rev. James McLoughlin, 45, pastor of St. Peter Catholic Church in Geneva, was the most visible of the Chicago-area hostages during the 17-day ordeal. Early on, he...

Chicago-area relatives of American hostages being held in Beirut were relieved and guardedly optimistic Friday night after hearing reports that a breakthrough in the ordeal might be near and after...

President Reagan came to the Chicago area Friday for a speech about his tax plan, but that message was overshadowed by a meeting with local relatives of Americans held hostage...

President Reagan called the kidnapers of Americans in Lebanon ''thugs and murderers and barbarians'' Friday and said the United States would not make a deal to free them. Hours before...

Chicago-area relatives of American hostages being held in Beirut were relieved and guardedly optimistic Friday night after hearing reports that a breakthrough in the ordeal might be near and after...

WHEN THE airplane`s no-smoking light went off, Dorothy Sullivan was reading an English-language newspaper that she had bought at the Athens airport. At a window seat two rows back, Sullivan`s...