Ray Quintanilla

Rain they can deal with, even if it does come as a surprise in a harsh desert landscape. Searing heat is maybe a month or two away. But it's those...

For more than 100 years the best minds in the U.S. military have come to the Naval War College's serene campus to study the world's great conflicts, and play "war...

A woman who jumped out of a blazing, five-story apartment building was among 26 people taken to area hospitals Friday after a West Rogers Park fire prompted a rare 5-11...

The murder spree here has been compared to those of America's most infamous serial killers, such as John Wayne Gacy, Richard Speck and even Jeffrey Dahmer. But the sad fact...

A preliminary investigation shows that Chicago police acted properly when they fatally shot a man who allegedly pointed a weapon at them after his car slammed into an officer directing...

Declaring it can no longer subsidize financially struggling congregations, the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago announced Thursday that it will shutter four predominantly black parishes this summer and that more closures...

The head of the Chicago Public Schools said Thursday that the system stands to lose $23.8 million if the legislature adopts Gov. George Ryan's proposal to change the allocation of...

Trying to revive Chicago's faltering local school councils--widely regarded as the linchpin of the city's vaunted reform movement--schools chief Arne Duncan on Thursday pleaded with parents and community members to...