Raoul V. Mowatt

A group of protesters flocked to downtown Chicago Saturday to support a recount of controversial Florida ballots in the presidential election and to call for the abolition of the Electoral...

Hours after they began walking the picket line Tuesday, striking teachers in Proviso School District 209 extended an olive branch to the school board, saying they are willing to sit...

Holding up signs emblazoned with the words "We'd rather be teaching" and "Quality teachers deserve quality pay," teachers at Proviso Township High School District 209 picketed outside school campuses today...

Nearly 100 angry parents from six Southwest Side public elementary schools asked the Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday to build new schools or pay for their expansion because "overcrowding...

The past century brought adversity as well as success to the Chicago-area Jewish community. They struggled with life as immigrants, agonized over the Holocaust and proudly witnessed the restoration of...

A half-dozen strong, they had been friends for years, some of them growing up together in Chicago's Vietnamese community on the city's North Side. They would hang out whenever they...

Environmental inspectors on Saturday found high levels of mercury at two Nicor service centers where old gas meters and mercury-filled pressure regulators are stored before being dumped in scrap yards....

Mark Lopez and Ruben Pulido III, both 13, lived on a Cicero street long held hostage by gangs, in a town that has tried every which way to rid itself...

Cicero police on Friday afternoon said they arrested an alleged gang member in connection with the fatal shootings of two 13-year-old boys in Cicero late Thursday. Another man also was...

For the fifth consecutive year, reports of major crime in Illinois declined in 1999, with communities in Chicago's northwest suburbs reporting drops of more than 12 percent. The downturn comes...