Stephanie Banchero

Chicago police charged an Iranian immigrant with three counts of first-degree murder Sunday after he allegedly bludgeoned his wife, sister-in-law and mother-in-law to death with a hammer the day before...

Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr., son of the founder and former chairman and president of the drugstore chain that bears his name, was remembered Sunday as a visionary who transformed the...

When you come in 22nd out of 30, a celebration is not typically in order. But the Marshall High School academic decathlon team saw its 22nd-place finish in the citywide...

It wasn't exactly an upset of epic proportions. But when Marshall High School's Academic Decathlon team took home 41 medals and two trophies at the regional Chicago meet last month,...

A record number of Illinois students enrolled in rigorous Advanced Placement classes last school year, but the proportion of teens who passed the end-of-year exam continued its steady decline, according...

Freezing temperatures, a biting wind and a mustache that kept frosting up in the bitter cold were not enough to keep Rich Dimond from his weekly Sunday passion. The 41-year-old...

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings spent the day in Chicago Thursday, lobbying students, teachers, school officials and business leaders to support proposed changes to the No Child Left Behind...

The Bush administration called Wednesday for Congress to strengthen the No Child Left Behind law by ratcheting up penalties on low-performing schools, giving districts more latitude to transfer teachers to...

A straight-A pupil whose favorite subject is social studies, Frida DeSantiago dreamed of attending a national youth leadership conference in Washington. The Chicago 12-year-old knew her parents, both restaurant workers,...

Five years after the landmark No Child Left Behind education reform was enacted, Illinois students have made minimal progress on national achievement exams, while many of the state's minority and...