Teresa Puente

A 4-year-old boy was found strangled early Saturday in the bedroom of his Northwest Side home, and police were questioning the boy's mother and her boyfriend. The child, Brian C....

In the center of the unfinished mural in the basement hall at Holy Angels Catholic Church is the figure of a bespectacled and white-robed Rev. Paul Smith, raising his arms...

The bells of St. Mary and more than 200 other churches tolled for the cardinal Friday morning in a simultaneous expression of mourning and reassurance. When the services were planned...

The children arriving at Blessed Sacrament School in North Lawndale, giggling and goofing around, knew immediately that something important had happened. Bundled lumps of mittened energy watching their breath turn...

Two men were killed in separate shootings on the South Side, a third man was critically injured after he was apparently run over by a van and a woman's body...

Joliet police were investigating the Wednesday-night shooting death of a 19-year-old man. The body of Steve Smith of Joliet was found in the 300 block of South Chicago Street at...

Many things have changed in the 70 years Lavern Vaillancourt has lived on Everett Street in Blue Island. When he was a young boy, his was one of three houses...

A political convention seems like the last place for a family reunion, but for many families, politics just runs in their blood. Jacquelyn Saylor, 50, and her high school-age daughter,...

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros announced a mortgage insurance program for a $98 million bond offering to finance the expansion and renovation of two Sinai Health System...

Despite their different titles--lawyer, doctor, nurse, firefighter--the black professionals who gathered in Chicago from around the country Saturday could agree on some things: the need for unity among themselves, the...