Teresa Wiltz

At least 10,000 Illinois children born with cocaine in their systems are now reaching grade-school age. If the experience of other cities, notably New York, provides any indication, the children...

It was their own version of the ''wall of shame,'' a message in magic marker scrawled on several Northwestern University women`s bathroom walls that last month accused a student of...

The Chicago Board of Education, working to avoid a Monday strike, made its first money offer to teachers shortly before midnight Friday, and Chicago Teachers Union President Jacqueline Vaughn said...

The murder investigation lasted six months, during which authorities explored exotic theories involving Irish terrorists, South American drug dealers and possible mob ties. But on Thursday it took 12 jurors...

When the end came, the people who made Midway a different kind of airline gathered in the terminal to say goodbye, embrace, fight off tears and share their disbelief. The...

The news was as stunning as it was sudden. Magic Johnson`s announcement on Thursday that he was retiring from the Los Angeles Lakers after testing positive for the HIV virus...

For a few minutes Tuesday, David Dowaliby was on his way to becoming a free man after 18 months in prison. But his taste of freedom proved fleeting when an...

On Thursday, Gregory Brooks, the football coach at Fenger High School, sat down with a pen and paper and listed those who had been snatched by violence from his teams,...

In the wake of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill debacle, African-American men and women have begun to sift through the wreckage to assess the damage done to their already complex relationships....

The nationally televised hearings pitting Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas against Anita Hill in a case of alleged sexual harassment have evoked a wide swath of emotions from blacks, ranging...