Teresa Wiltz

Outside most every Chicago public school, signs announce ''This Is A Safe School Zone.'' And for the schoolchildren, many of whom live surrounded by poverty and abandoned buildings, school is...

In spite of Mayor Richard Daley`s promise to put 600 more police officers on the street by early next year, such an increase will do little to cut the soaring...

Mayor Richard Daley`s administration, after a frantic day of flip-flops and scrambling for political damage control, conceded Wednesday that the campaign promise to put an additional 600 police officers on...

When Derrick Hankerson hit a slick spot while driving to work Friday morning, he managed to regain control before his car went careering over the Michigan Avenue Bridge and into...

C.J. Johnson and his co-workers at We-Go Greenhouse in West Chicago have an unusual way to cope with the blistering heat. They duck outside to cool off. ''Yeah, it`s pretty...

An outraged man opened fire on an automobile on the West Side Thursday morning, injuring five people he apparently blamed for stealing his car radio, police said. The gunman drove...

Only the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, could clear the streets faster. During the running of the Bulls Wednesday night in Los Angeles, emergency calls to police will...

Sophia Keller wiped tears from her eyes Monday as a mournful rendition of taps concluded a ceremony in Glenview paying tribute to her son, who died in the Persian Gulf...

An autopsy on Wednesday disclosed that a professor at the University of Chicago who this month told a student he had been threatened, was a victim of murder, police said....

As she did each school day, Chandra Haak set out May 1 from her grandmother`s house along the shore of Lake Marie near Antioch to catch the school bus. But...