Stephanie Banchero

By the time the sun rose Tuesday morning, Chicago Park District workers were slamming a wrecking ball into the Lincoln Park Gun Club. Hours later, most of the 76-year-old building...

Mary Jeanne Franke Smith, 67, a former Tribune staff writer, died of breast cancer Saturday in her home in Maryland. A journalist for more than 40 years, Mrs. Smith dreamed...

In a surprise move, the Chicago Park District demolished the Lincoln Park Gun Club early Tuesday morning, provoking anger from some park activists who had hoped to save the 76-year-old...

Albert Poole, 79, was a longtime educator and a former school superintendent in Lake Forest. Mr. Poole died July 31 in his home in Arkansas. A Flint, Mich. native, Mr....

A ferocious backlash against the media emerged Sunday in the hours after the deaths of Princess Diana and two others, killed in a car crash while apparently trying to flee...

For the last seven years, George Pousen and his family have left steamy Miami in mid-August to visit relatives in Chicago. And each year, they remember spending most of their...

George Pappadakis lives in a darkened world of lonely silence. Deaf since he was a year old and blind since he was 30, Pappadakis is also mute, unable to utter...

It came down to the final pitch in the bottom of the ninth, but the Near North Little League officials finally got the commitment they've been looking for. After months...

Chicago police were investigating the apparent slayings of a mother and daughter who may have been dead for several days when they were found in their West Rogers Park home...

John W. "Jack" Oremus, 60, as president and chief executive officer of Prairie Material Sales in Bridgeview, built it into one of the nation's largest producers of concrete, cement and...