Paul Galloway

For those of you who are weary of the gloom-and-doom reports about what could happen because of the Y2K computer problem, here's an article about the upcoming date change that...

It is a remarkable story: The son of poor Italian immigrants grows up to achieve national and international recognition as one of the most influential archbishops in the Roman Catholic...

If your parents ever read to you aloud when you were young, you know that the most memorable way of telling stories can also be the simplest. That's part of...

Calling all kids with "unique, original or strange talents, inventions or collections" - would you like to be a contestant on "Figure It Out," the game show on the Nickelodeon...

You may think Michael Jordan embodies the spirit of basketball, but the players who play pick-up games on hardscrabble big-city courts may be the sport's most committed players. Today, "Soul...

Attention, train lovers, history buffs and railroad-speed freaks! Now boarding for a first look at the beautifully restored Burlington Pioneer Zephyr, one of the country's fastest and most famous trains,...

In the 1940s, Margaret O'Brien was one of the country's most popular movie stars. She made her debut in 1942 at age 5 in "Journey for Margaret," playing an English...

Around 1890, Bertha Palmer, wife of Chicago millionaire Potter Palmer, bought her first piece of modern art, paying $500 (equivalent to more than $8,000 today) for "On the Stage," a...

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, discussing his own death with unblinking poise, made it clear Friday that he has plenty of life left in him. The archbishop of Chicago announced that he...

The arrival of the Olympic torch in Chicago on Monday will cast its light into a corner of history that many Chicagoans may be a bit hazy about--the role the...