William Mullen

Even within the tight-knit fraternity of firefighters, you don't often see the kind of sendoff accorded to Lt. Wally Lynch Thursday afternoon as he spent his last day on the...

A sentimental summer children's movie that opens nationally Friday already is in the middle of a tug of war between animal rights groups and places like Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, which...

The oldest known piece of cloth, woven 9,000 years ago near the headwaters of the Tigris River, is helping two University of Chicago archeologists weave together the still incomplete story...

On Jan. 20, 1958, when a 23-year-old ex-truck driver from Tupelo, Miss., was ordered to report to the draft board in Memphis, it made front page news around the world....

Three suspects in the slaying of a teenager who was shot during a street celebration of the Bulls' basketball championship appeared in Cook County Criminal Court on Monday to face...

Just back from a trip to the East Coast, palling around with those who know Argie Johnson and Laval Wilson, Chicago school board members brought their traveling search for a...

Linda Ford is shorter than some 6th graders, but she has this way of walking, of staying ahead of just about everybody. She walks like she talks, fast and with...

Last month some of the young mothers at Church of the Ascension's day-care center had a meeting featuring a lawyer who spoke of making out wills and putting their households...

Five Northwestern University graduate students who developed a plan to manufacture and market devices to warn whales away from fishermen's nets have landed an international award. The five defeated a...

An experiment in the greening of Lake Shore Drive by planting hundreds of trees in median strips a year ago remains in doubt because of a perennial winter bugaboo: roadway...