Teresa Puente

The stretch of Halsted Street that runs throughChicago's Pilsen neighborhood is lined with residential lofts, a trendy new coffee shop, an alternative theater, a computer software company and an art...

On the second day of a state hearing into alleged misuse of as much as $1 million in poverty funds at Clemente High School, five educators said the school curriculum...

A tire-store fire that erupted into the worst tragedy for the Chicago Fire Department in more than a decade was first noticed in the most ordinary of ways: Mary Nance...

Arnold Mireles and Roel Salinas may have lived in the same neighborhood, but they walked on different sides of the street. For years in South Chicago, Arnold Mireles' good intentions...

Orachanee Anderson was 22 years old and weighed 80 pounds when she died, allegedly starved by her mother and stepfather in a second-floor apartment on the West Side, authorities said...

At the John Hancock Center, Chris Farley's address when he was not in Los Angeles or New York making movies, the comic actor was not unlike the characters he played--loud,...

Tucked between a dry cleaner and a hair salon, across the road from a Polish deli and a Chinese chop suey restaurant, is Mt. Prospect's only Filipino grocery. When Remedios...

The spirit of Mother Teresa is alive among her sisters who continue ministering to the poor on the West Side. On Sunday morning, as they do six days every week,...

The federal government says 2 million American workers are getting a raise on Monday, Labor Day. Employees who've been making $4.75 an hour will see a 40-cent-per-hour raise starting this...

Dan Rostenkowski, who moved from a humble home on Chicago's Northwest Side to become one of the most powerful figures in American government, returned to even more modest accommodations Tuesday...