Sean D. Hamill

Fifteen Highland Park teenagers were awarded the Grand Championship at the International Future Problem Solvers conference Sunday for their efforts to translate and send books to children in Afghanistan. The...

Gathered in parish meeting halls and basement schoolrooms Tuesday night, thousands of Chicago's Roman Catholics voiced their suggestions, concerns and, in many cases, their anger over the church's sex abuse...

The names are synonymous with shopping in suburban Chicago: Old Orchard, Hawthorn, Fox Valley. But now three of the area's largest regional malls are on their way to becoming "Westfield...

For the Nazis who controlled Philippe J. Piette's hometown of Gent, Belgium, during World War II, the sight of the 18-year-old engineering student delivering small plaster figurines wasn't that threatening....

When she was a child, Dana Martino Spencer was given a toy airplane by grandmother. She soon decided to become a pilot, an accomplishment she achieved just a year out...

When Joseph Konopka was in middle school, he was so good with computers that school officials referred teachers with computer problems to him. But in his freshman year of high...

They were first cousins and best friends. Their mothers were also best friends and were in the back seat of the Honda Civic that was stopped for a traffic light...

As Lake County residents prepare to vote in March on tax-increase requests by 13 school districts -- the most in 10 years -- officials increasingly blame tax caps for strained...

Kim Bauer's job is to try to buy Lincoln artifacts in a robustly competitive marketplace, where prices can often seem as overwhelming as Grant's army at Appomattox. As curator of...

Chicagoans longing for a white Christmas probably will have to settle for flurries and stinging cold. Christmas is expected to be a repeat of Christmas Eve, with a dreary sky,...