V. Dion Haynes

After almost eight hours of negotiations and one false announcement of an agreement, Mayor Richard Daley's aides announced late Monday a resolution to a standoff between Chicago Public Schools officials...

After eight days of keeping their children out of class in protest of a plan to bus their children to another school, a group of parents from the Daley School...

On one level, they appeared to be average boys. At Kohn Elementary School, Cragg and Derrick Hardaway played on the basketball team, showing flashes of athleticism. Their nicknames: "CR" and...

A measure approved by the U.S. Senate early this week could cost 12 states including Illinois up to 10 percent of federal funds for low-income students-their penalty for failing to...

Environmental engineers Monday began inspecting Plum Grove Junior High School to determine if reports of cancer and upper respiratory ailments are linked to the building. A team from TurnKey Environmental...

Des Plaines on Monday became the latest Chicago suburb to ante up for a piece of the casino gambling action in Illinois when city officials revealed that they have had...

Dyett Middle School in Chicago and the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora are far apart geographically, economically and socially. Dyett's South Side neighborhood is troubled by street gangs,...

Noted as a walker-friendly community, the village has received the 1993 AAA-Chicago Motor Club award for pedestrian safety. A national panel of safety professionals judged entries from 2,265 communities and...

Groundbreaking for a new sporting goods store in Northbrook is months off, but a movement already is under way to block the sale of guns there. A coalition of handgun...

Hannu Haukka, resting his elbows on his stack of suitcases, stared blankly at the screen inside American Airlines' terminal at O'Hare International Airport Tuesday, wading through the lines for departing...