Teresa Wiltz

Roseanne Arnold can't escape controversy, even when she's nowhere to be seen. On Sunday, Arnold was to have debuted her collection of plus-size women's clothing at the Metronome restaurant in...

Across Chicago, the New Year was rung in with gunfire. Of the four killed over Friday night and Saturday morning, three were shot to death. The fourth victim, Arvell Singletary,...

Even more than a white Christmas, every retailer loves a green Thanksgiving weekend. So consider the palpable panic that hit Chicago-area merchants like a blast of winter when they threw...

To hear Steven J. Cook tell it, suing Cardinal Joseph Bernardin for alleged sexual abuse is not a matter of attacking the church, but trying to help it. "My faith...

Bond was set at $500,000 Tuesday for a 19-year-old man charged with attempted murder in the shooting of an Elgin resident following a weekend brawl at a local bar. Rudy...

Two 18-year-old Prospect Heights men were being held in Cook County Jail in lieu of bond Thursday after being charged with home invasion for allegedly robbing the 70-year-old building manager...

Amid fractured contract negotiations between the teachers union and the Chicago Board of Education, board member Pamela Lenane on Saturday blamed the impasse on the union, which she said is...

It was a running joke all that day. "Man," Jonathan Macon bragged to his hanging partner Corliss Taylor, "If someone put a gun in my face, I wouldn't be scared....

Like many other youngsters her age, 10-year-old Shannon Burns was fighting a losing battle with the neighborhood bullies. She was fed up. So on Friday, the pony-tailed tomboy loaded her...

Time has blurred the edges of 84-year-old Myra Alexander's memory. Recollections come in spurts. And other thoughts are gone forever. But some things you never forget. Like growing up black...