Sabrina L. Miller

All that rainwater with no place to go. When the heavens opened earlier this week, dumping a record amount of rain on parts of the Chicago area, stormwater management systems...

The word has spread through Chicago like a fever over the last 10 days: As the descendants of slaves, the story goes, black taxpayers can claim from $8,000 to $40,000...

Snagging an autograph used to be easy. A kid could hang over the ballfield fence and wait for his favorite player to sign a ball or hang around the Chicago...

As state section director of the Mutual UFO Network, Walter Fydryck is responsible for collecting UFO sightings in Chicago and along Lake Michigan. It's not as big a job as...

The protesters shouting Monday outside Mayor Richard Daley's 5th-floor City Hall office demanded that he leave the Cabrini-Green housing complex alone. They were African-American. They were Hispanic. Many weren't Cabrini...

At 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sylvia Castro was weighing out 2 pounds of chorizo de casa sausage for a customer at Taqueria Vegar, a grocery and restaurant at 18th Street and...

Chicago Police Officer Robert Kuczak spent most of his precious 2 1/2-week vacation on the couch napping, not because he wanted to but because he just didn't have the energy...

Once upon a time it was the "new math" that sent parents into a tizzy, trying desperately to relate to the fast-changing schoolwork of their thoroughly modern kids. Now it's...

The stated goal of the blue-ribbon panel created by the Better Government Association to examine the work of the Palatine massacre task force is simple: to uncover the truth. But...

A day after the controversial novel "Coffee Will Make You Black" was removed from the South Side's Julian High School, provoking debate over the delicate judgments teachers must make about...