William Recktenwald

Richard Gonzalez Jr., 15, and Donna Morgan, 17, were on the steps of Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School, 4416 N. Troy St., with a group of friends Monday just...

Florence Zuniga had reached the breaking point with her grandson. The 73-year-old, white-haired diabetic was tired of his erratic hours and behavior. She wanted him out of the house. And...

Ray Kilroy was laughing last week about Greg Hauser`s attempts to teach him to play golf. Golf had been Hauser`s hobby for a long time. It is his teenaged son...

Here are some of the Midwest`s major air shows: The Air Force Thunderbirds will appear May 19 at Scott Air Force Base, Belleville, Ill. Dozens of military aircraft also will...

David Fogel, who has headed the Chicago Police Department`s Office of Professional Standards (OPS) for the last six years, will retire from the post May 1 to resume his position...

Richard Phelan presented a multipoint plan Sunday for improving health care in Cook County, including proposals for a new, scaled-down Cook County Hospital and the county`s contracting for an additional...

As the bells rang to assemble students at Chicago`s two Roman Catholic high school seminaries Wednesday, they tolled a death knell for Quigley South and signaled new hope for Quigley...

Deaths due to fires in Chicago totaled 121 last year, 22 percent fewer than in 1988, according to Chicago Fire Department statistics released Thursday. Fire Department spokesman Tom Sheppard said...

Carol M. Phelan, 52, a Chicago architect, died Tuesday in Hilo Hospital, Hilo, Hawaii, after suffering a heart attack. Mrs. Phelan, a resident of Winnetka, was vacationing with her husband,...

Summer seems to end more than once. Its first demise is Labor Day weekend with children returning to school. Next, it concludes with the arrival of fall, which occurred on...