Stephanie Banchero

When it came to buying city vehicle stickers this year, Chicago residents were early birds instead of snails. And the city got the proverbial worm: by Monday, one day before...

Storyteller Michael Agnew tramped to the wide-eyed youngsters sitting around the campfire and broke the stillness with a loud thump of a Sioux Indian drum. Two dozen kids suspended their...

For years, Patrice Marshall kept a watchful eye over her four young children to protect them from gangs, drugs and other urban woes in her Humboldt Park neighborhood. But she...

Opinions about controlling the North Shore mosquito population are like bites from the pesky bloodsuckers--everybody has one. A surprise Monday vote by the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District to reverse...

Top local law enforcement officials and a Chicago congressman called Monday for passage of tougher federal gun control laws to help curb what they fear will become a torrential flow...

Children playing along the banks of Wolf Lake on Chicago's Far Southeast Side found a human head on Sunday evening, police said. The partially decomposed head was found near 132nd...

Rev. Joseph F. Peschel, 52, a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago, died Friday of a heart attack in Blue Ash, Ohio. A Chicago native, Father Peschel spent...

A Buffalo Grove youth sued the Boy Scouts of America on Thursday, saying the group violated his rights by denying him membership after he refused to pledge allegiance to God....

With affordable housing shrinking in many Chicago neighborhoods, a senior citizens group in Edgewater has made a $13 million move to ensure its building doesn't become too expensive for senior...

A group of community activists is taking on City Hall and a Canadian theater mogul in an effort to save the landmark Oliver Building. Members of the Committee to Save...