Jerry Thornton

Chicago police said Thursday that they believe they know the identity of a man shot to death 17 years ago, allegedly by an itinerant cook and waiter who confessed to...

For more than a year, Betty Clay, 42, has been a member of Fizer Temple Church of God in Christ. ''It`s the best thing that ever happened in my life,''...

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...

It was late 1957, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was at the airport in Atlanta. Like other public buildings in the South, the airport had two restrooms for males....

He likes to call himself ''Shorty 20-Gauge.'' He thinks the name sounds tough. He had it tattooed over his heart when he was 12, shortly after he joined the Black...

This is the story of three men whose lives have come to rest in a vacant lot. Not one of them is older than 34. Slim Ty, Juice Man and...

-- -- -- ''Attention cars in 10. Attention cars on citywide. Stripping auto in progress. 1531 S. Albany. It`s a brown auto.'' Patrolman Lamont Lee of the 10th District, which...

By the time Calvin Barrett leaves the apartment, it is past 10 a.m. Adjusting the tilt of his black cloth cap, he bids goodbye to the person he calls his...