Robert Becker

The reminders of the bake sales, the tag days and the Las Vegas night at the church hall are mostly gone, but Kaye Malozzi has held on to one significant...

They conduct evaluations that help judges make decisions, ranging from whether a person is fit for trial to which parent should have custody of a child during a divorce. They...

What began six years ago as a court battle over the rights of the mentally disabled ended quietly Wednesday without even a hearing. A Cook County judge signed an order...

To anyone who has seen "The Godfather" films, and for those who have studied the Roman Catholic Church's politics and its dramas of red silk and white smoke, the scene...

The fires so instrumental to restoring a remnant of the prairie to the Cook County Forest Preserves have done more than char invasive buckthorn or fell opportunistic saplings. The flames,...

In one of the most dramatic retreats in recent Chicago political history, Cook County Board President John Stroger on Monday pulled off the table his plan for a 15-fold increase...

Jesuit explorer Jacques Marquette, who in 1673 sank his boots into the marsh that would become Chicago, was on a mission for the Roman Catholic Church. A century later, Jean...

Hundreds of Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox joined Cardinal Joseph Bernardin's own parishioners at Holy Name Cathedral for an ecumenical prayer service in his honor Tuesday morning. In the spirit of...

Lake County Republican Congressmen John Porter and Philip Crane easily held off challenges by Democratic political newcomers Tuesday. But as they conceded defeat, both Democratic candidates said they will be...

Michael Flanagan's challenge when he went to Washington as a freshly minted Republican hero was to erase two impressions: - A beached carp could have beaten troubled U.S. Rep. Dan...