Jean Latz Griffin

Cook County Hospital will begin providing abortions on Wednesday, a day earlier than previously scheduled, county officials announced Tuesday. In response to the change in date, abortion protestors immediately moved...

For more than a decade, Chicagoan Rick Karlin has been a gay man, a 1st-grade teacher and a full-time dad. Karlin`s 18-year-old son from a previous marriage, Adam, lived with...

The City of Chicago is providing free tetanus shots to workers involved in cleaning up the flood waters in the downtown area, but they emphasized that so far tests of...

Nearly a century ago, when the tunnels beneath Chicago were built, a flood of river leakage would have resulted in thousands of cases of cholera and typhoid fever. But not...

From time to time, an event etches an image on the mind and psyche that has the power to change a belief, an attitude or a behavior. Years ago, a...

A half-dozen Chicago-area hospitals have been forced to turn away emergency ambulances and several others have been strained to their limits over the last week because of an influx of...

At least 10,000 Illinois children born with cocaine in their systems are now reaching grade-school age. If the experience of other cities, notably New York, provides any indication, the children...

Gay and lesbian leaders in Chicago, stunned at the thought that Jeffrey L. Dahmer appears to have visited gay bars to find victims, are warning members of their community to...

At Man`s Country, a gay bath house on Chicago`s North Side, management keeps a computer record of its thousands of members, as well as pictures of known troublemakers and police...

Oliver Lacy, 23, identified by Milwaukee police as one of at least 11 victims of a killer who dismembered his victims, was a top athlete at his Oak Park high...