William Recktenwald

A thank-you note written on 10 tons of ticker tape was hand-delivered to the Bears, who returned to sweet home Chicago Monday packing pride and a silver souvenir from New...

A thank-you note written on 10 tons of ticker tape was hand-delivered to the Bears, who returned to sweet home Chicago Monday packing pride and a silver souvenir from New...

A veteran Chicago Fire Department lieutenant died Sunday in a smoky extra-alarm fire moments after he had rescued two elderly residents who had been stranded on the third floor of...

Residents of the 3400 blocks of North Leavitt and Hamilton Streets took in an eclectic haul this Christmas. There was a Perfect-a-lite aquarium, a Clairol Custom Care Setter, a SinKadink,...

A light snowfall was beginning as Andre Alexander walked through an alley at 56th Street and Damen Avenue shortly after 8 p.m. on Jan. 6. Shots broke the stillness, and...

At 19, Freddie Hopkins is the mother of two daughters, Ranetta, 2, and Ransheka, 1. She would like a son. ''Then I get my tubes tied,'' she explains. Freddie Hopkins...

The streets of North Lawndale are littered with trash, broken bottles and junked cars. Last year, Ald. William C. Henry`s 24th Ward Democratic organization bought a second-hand street sweeper for...

-- -- -- As dwelling units vanished from North Lawndale`s housing stock, the neighborhood`s population also declined, to 61,500 this year from a peak of 125,000 in 1960. Most who...

After 25 years of virtually unchecked housing deterioration, abandonment and demolition, North Lawndale looks like a bombed-out war zone. Almost half of the housing units there have disappeared since 1960....

''Smile, Ivory!'' Officer Patrick O`Donovan yells as he eases his unmarked police car past the intersection of 16th Street and Kedzie Avenue. ''Ain`t nothin` to smile about,'' answers Ivory, one...