Vanessa Gezari

A popular Maine East High School physical education teacher was charged Tuesday with engaging in sexual conduct with a 17-year-old female student at the school. Dean A. Quarino, 36, of...

The Cook County sheriff's office Monday was investigating the cause of a brawl in the County Jail in which four inmates were stabbed and several others were injured in a...

Stifling summer temperatures heated up classrooms--and some parents--Thursday, forcing scattered school districts to send students home early and prompting some angry mothers and fathers to pull their children out of...

A federal jury has ordered the Town of Cicero to pay $400,000 to several real estate developers who accused the town of unfairly requiring them to provide extra parking spaces...

A federal jury has ordered the Town of Cicero to pay $400,000 to several real estate developers who accused the town of unfairly requiring them to provide extra parking spaces...

Legislative leaders were tinkering on Tuesday with Gov. George Ryan's plan to temporarily suspend the state gasoline sales tax, proposing changes designed to line consumers' pockets and curry favor with...

In the wake of a sexual harassment judgment that could cost Chicago taxpayers nearly $600,000, the city will investigate allegations leveled in court against a top manager in the city's...

This past fall, April Van Dam-Gabler and Patricio Gabler were given 30 days to leave their two-bedroom apartment in Uptown. The couple believe tenants in their North Kenmore Avenue building...

Alarms rang when 4-pound, 13-day-old Zquan Wakefield was smuggled out of the nursery at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, setting in motion the security and police apparatus that was...

Armed with pompoms, colorful floats and signs, hundreds of May Day protesters marched through Chicago's streets Monday, straining to link their wide-ranging messages through common opposition to capitalism and corporate...