R. Bruce Dold

Cathy Clark lived in eight foster homes and three institutions in nine years. They left emotional scars that remain more than 15 years later. One foster father molested her when...

The statewide death toll from child abuse and neglect last year hit its highest level since 1981, and in about one-fourth of the families where a child died, the Illinois...

Spending cuts of $7.1 million by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services will delay or eliminate some highly touted day-care and child- abuse prevention programs, department officials said...

A 34-year-old man was given a tough choice Friday: your father or your son. The man, Charles Rosenbarger Jr., lives with his 8-year-old son in Costa Rica, in Central America....

Gov. James Thompson launched a broad personal and political attack against third-party challenger Adlai Stevenson Friday, culminating with a charge that Stevenson ''doesn`t like people.'' The strident assault against Stevenson...

No other issue in the General Assembly this year provoked more angry, prolonged rhetoric than how deeply the state should dip its hands into the Byzantine world of liability insurance...

After nearly a year of legislative chess moves over the fate of the fire- ravaged Arlington Park Race Track, Gov. James Thompson and the track`s owner Monday unveiled plans for...

Northwestern University police Wednesday arrested 32 anti-apartheid demonstrators who had blocked an underground garage at a campus administration building with a symbolic shanty. As more than 100 other students chanted...

A Northwest Indiana couple charged with theft surrendered to authorities Thursday, the day that also was the 10th birthday of their brain-damaged son, whose court settlement funds the couple allegedly...

On the second floor of a nondescript manufacturing plant in the midst of a melting-pot business strip in Chicago`s Albany Park neighborhood, an unorthodox political campaign was going on. Cars...