Teresa Puente

With white plastic construction hats on their heads and shiny new shovels in their hands, Orland Park school officials, parents and students broke ground Tuesday on a new $15 million...

The Island Rendezvous, an annual historical fair that re-creates the fur trade between Native Americans and French Canadian voyageurs, will be held this weekend at the Isle a la Cache...

The neatest thing about being a swing manager at McDonald's, Gigi Vasquez said, bright-eyed and brimming with enthusiasm, is respect. "Before, I worked in a hot dog stand, and nobody...

When firefighters burst open an electrical vault on the 31st floor of a Near North Side high-rise Wednesday, an opaque cloud of smoke rolled out and plunged them into darkness....

For weeks, the members of the Steinmetz Academic Decathlon team tried to forestall scandal by denying, over and over again, that they had not cheated when they won the state...

Eight across, they knelt before clergy cloaked in black robes to receive ashes. It took about 60 seconds. Waitresses, police officers, lawyers, brokers, valet parkers-thousands of Loop workers with a...