Rachael Levy

Chicago Public Schools will start charging sliding-scale tuition fees at school-based prekindergarten programs this fall as part of an overhaul that also includes a change in the application process. Parents...

Perhaps the young great horned owl could have flown had it already grown its flight feathers. Instead, the roughly month-old owlet tumbled 40 to 50 feet, cushioned only by a...

A federal appeals court Monday upheld the conviction and sentence of disgraced former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge for lying about the torture of suspects during the 1970s and 1980s....

A federal appeals court today upheld the conviction and sentence of disgraced former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge for lying about the torture of suspects during the 1970s and 1980s.A...

Growing up in Chicago's crime-ridden Englewood neighborhood has been rough for Pravione Winding, but the past several months have been especially hard. First, his great-grandmother died of cancer. Then in...

One of Chicago's 59 newest police officers lost a 3-year-old nephew to gang violence when he was a boy. Another worked with troubled children and wanted to do more to...

One of Chicago's 59 newest police officers lost a 3-year-old nephew to gang violence when he was a boy. Another worked with troubled children and wanted to do more to...