Robert Mitchum

Bill Ayers long ago settled into a life of quiet respectability as a well-regarded professor of education and a much-published activist for better schools. With his Ivy League doctorate, 48-page...

The fight over a soccer field under construction in Lincoln Park moved to the courts Wednesday, as a residents group filed a lawsuit hoping to put a stop to construction....

The voyage may sound improbable, but wildlife officials say that a DNA test should reveal whether a cougar killed Monday in Chicago took a 1,000-mile trip from the Black Hills...

The campus of St. Xavier University was like a well-guarded ghost town Monday, its classrooms empty, its dormitories shuttered and its every entrance patrolled by school security officers and Chicago...

There is masculinity to burn at Jack Schwartz Importer, a cigar shop inside the Chicago Board of Trade where traders were lighting up stogies before noon and reacting to new...

Pierre Kattar Jr. could not donate a kidney to his father because of incompatibility, so he gave one to Niral Patel, whose mother had wanted to give him a kidney...

Discount carrier ATA Airlines Inc., crippled by high fuel costs and the loss of a crucial military-charter contract, shut down Thursday after filing for bankruptcy protection from creditors. In a...

Shannon Brown looked out for the kids in his Roseland neighborhood, whether they were his brothers, his cousins or other kids on the block, his family said. When some older...

One man was facing paralysis and as many as a dozen others were recovering from broken bones and various injuries after an out-of-control sport-utility vehicle crashed into a crowd Wednesday...

Three of the men killed were family, lived together and, for the last 11 years, worked together at McCormick Place. Otis Thomas labored at the convention center for 25 years,...