Stephanie Banchero

Six years ago, a music teacher at Centennial Elementary School in Orland Park led Ray Biederman into a tiny music room, pointed at the three stringed instruments lining the wall...

A delegation of Chicago-area religious and political leaders left for Chiapas on Sunday on a fact-finding mission to investigate possible human rights violations in the war-torn Mexican state. The group,...

Days after Commonwealth Edison squeaked by with just enough electricity to avoid initiating rolling blackouts, a malfunction and severe weather brought down both reactors over the weekend at the utility's...

Unnerved by the national rash of schoolyard shootings, officials at Lincoln-Way School District 210 are considering a policy that would allow them to expel students who make threatening comments to...

Saying everybody must be accountable for his or her words, a Cook County Juvenile Court judge on Tuesday sentenced a 12-year-old Homewood boy to a psychiatric hospital because the youth...

Twelve-year-old Ryan Davies wonders why a friend got in trouble for saying he was going to kill someone after getting a bad grade on a math test. Ahmer Zaidi, 13,...

A Cook County Juvenile Court judge refused Tuesday to release a 12-year-old Homewood boy charged with threatening to kidnap and kill classmates. Judge William Hibbler ordered that the youth remain...

Isabell Blocks, 88, who was known locally as "Vietnamom" for her dedicated monthly correspondence to hundreds of local servicemen, died Saturday in Lake Forest Hospital. A native of Prairie View,...

For 10 years the red brick building on Blackhawk Drive in University Park has been silent. The halls, once alive with children's laughter and shuffling feet, are hushed. The classrooms,...

One of the area's longest and nastiest legal battles over school busing inched one step closer to a settlement Thursday when a federal judge gave temporary approval to an agreement...