Sabrina L. Miller

News reports that said more than 1,000 people had died in Africa's deadliest ferry disaster prompted Chicago firefighter Max Walchuk, an experienced diver, to fly there to help with rescue...

An eight-year burden was lifted from Teri Kyles Tuesday when she paid off about $2,000 worth of parking ticket violations, becoming one of the first scofflaws to take part in...

The North Lawndale corner grocery store where a man was killed during an apparent robbery Thursday should not have been open because a court had ordered the dilapidated structure to...

A day after the U.S. House handed Mayor Richard Daley a setback by rejecting legislation critical to the expansion of O'Hare International Airport, his allies in Congress began mapping out...

The lives of Chicago's Mexican immigrants, often stymied in routine ways by the lack of proper identification, became easier Wednesday when the City Council made it legal to accept consulate-issued...

Day laborers in Chicago would have significantly more protection under a proposed ordinance passed by a City Council committee Monday to require licensing and regulation of day labor agencies. Companies...

A conservative watchdog group wants the Internal Revenue Service to investigate a charitable organization linked to Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. The National Legal and Policy Center on Wednesday filed...

Each flicker of Michael Ceriale's smiling face on the television screen the past week has conjured a fresh wave of emotions for Chicago Police Officer Jackie Roberson: grief, anger and,...

When he learned that Rev. Jesse Jackson had an extramarital affair and fathered a child out of wedlock, 18-year-old Miles Putnam said it felt as though he had been punched...