THE 25 GREATEST TV CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME
More so than their counterparts in movies or books or theater, the great TV characters become our intimates. It isn't because they are any more vivid or compelling--it's because they're...
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HARNESSING THE POWER OF A WELL-CRAFTED PHRASE
Janet Cheatham Bell loved words so much, she collected them. She placed statements that had been written or spoken by prominent blacks into a folder and added new writings to...
CITY SWEATS, BUT SURVIVES
This time Chicago was ready. And Sunday was pick-your-metaphor hot: A kiln, a blast furnace and McDonald's coffee all came to mind. But the combination of scorching heat and oppressive...
DALEY FEELING MORE HEAT
Clara Cadenhead, 86, got her first air conditioner just three weeks ago. Even then it was because her family insisted, after she was overcome by heat in her home where...
DRUGS, STREET LIFE LINKED SERIAL MURDER VICTIMS
It was not uncommon for Millicent Jones, the 25-year-old woman known by family and friends as "Peanuts," to disappear onto Chicago streets for hours, and even days. But it was...
DEPAUL MAKES CONCESSIONS TO STUDENTS AT NEWSPAPER SIT-IN
DePaul University administrators on Thursday agreed to beef up recruitment and retention of minority students and allocate $70,000 to multicultural programs in response to demonstrations by African-American students. Still, the...
LIKE YOUR COMMUNITY? JOIN CROWD
When it comes to the question of where to live, Gloria San Jose has her preference, as does Jesse Luna. Their reasons couldn't be further apart. "It's close to the...
NEWBORN GIRL ABANDONED ON WEST SIDE
A baby girl who was abandoned shortly after birth behind a West Side apartment building was in critical condition Wednesday, recovering from multiple skull fractures, frostbite and hypothermia, authorities said....
AIDS DAY PROVIDES WAKEUP CALL
The dimming of the Christmas tree in the Daley Center Plaza to a candlelight vigil in Humboldt Park to special events in the city's art community marked World AIDS Day...
EACH PARTY WANTS TO MAKE HISTORY
The major candidates in Tuesday's Illinois election appealed to the voters' sense of history during a final, frenzied weekend day of campaigning Sunday. Republicans brandished brooms to encourage a GOP...