Tara Malone

Tucker Moore earns solid grades, runs cross-country at Lake Forest High School and is training to be an Eagle Scout. Still, when facing a tough math problem or moral dilemma,...

After the rainiest day in recorded Chicago history, residents across the area faced more storms, closed roads and flooded basements Sunday as the remnants of Hurricane Ike were expected to...

As the number of infants abducted by strangers declines, the location of the crime has steadily shifted from hospitals and maternity wards to homes and public places during the past...

Sporting book bags and name tags, nearly 1,000 Chicago students on Tuesday got a tutorial in civic action aimed at spotlighting the disparities in Illinois public education as they missed...

The heat came like a challenge. Facing temperatures expected to hit 95 degrees, we could (a) hunker down with a book amid the refreshing air conditioning or (b) step into...

A Glenview man carrying a bicycle was killed Thursday when he ran into a moving pickup truck as he tried to cross the southbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive, police...

Tyler Luce knew his ABCs before he turned 2. By 3, he had taught himself to read simple words. But when school began, Tyler sat quietly while his Gurnee classmates...

At Trinity United Church of Christ Sunday, there was no mention of longtime member Barack Obama or his political opponents, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. The only nod to news...

With the Edens Expressway resurfacing project set to put the brakes on its first morning rush Monday, scores of northern commuters were swapping their car keys for train tickets, creating...

Glenn Weiler sounded like he was delivering a eulogy, speaking in the past tense used by arborists who now deem the ash tree's demise inevitable, its enemy unstoppable. "Ash was...