Jean Latz Griffin

Cook County Hospital has stopped accepting emergency room patients from police, fire and private ambulances and has asked other hospitals to take some County patients in anticipation of a nurses...

Two out of three single people in Illinois between 16 and 24 years old use condoms to protect themselves from AIDS, and four out of five say they have become...

A report commissioned by the Illinois Department of Public Aid contends that the state Medicaid program that reimburses hospitals for patient care saved millions of tax dollars in fiscal year...

The Chicago City Council voted 26-21 against a measure to expand civil rights protection for homosexuals, the handicapped, the elderly and other minority groups in a stormy meeting Wednesday punctuated...

Controversy continues to surround a new law-supported by the Illinois State Medical Society and signed by Gov. James Thompson last week-that will allow doctors to secretly test people for infection...

The number of new AIDS cases reported among minorities in Chicago outpaced those among whites during August, prompting city Health Commissioner Lonnie Edwards to call for additional education, prevention and...

On Sept. 28, 1987, during the ninth Chicago teachers strike in 19 years, Charlene Kopnick crossed a picket line to report to her district office. Twenty picketers, including a leader...

Principal Edwin Tyska walked out of Von Humboldt Elementary School one day last year to discover that $600 of damage had been done to his car, parked just outside of...

The Chicago Public School system is a case of institutionalized child neglect. Instead of working to nurture productive citizens, the guardians of the system divert themselves with a game of...

The lack of interest by politicians, the lack of commitment of administrators and teachers, the lack of unity among parents have combined to isolate the school system to such an...