Patrick T. Reardon

A photographer came into the Tribune office more than four years ago. His name was Loren Santow, and he had taken pictures of shoes hanging from various tall objects such...

The event: Pre-party for the 13th annual "A Bid for Stardom" celebrity book auction, set for May 16. The group: Literacy Chicago, which promotes reading and classroom skills, tutoring and...

It was a family business and no child was exempt, including 12-year-old Ricardo Munoz. "My parents were entrepreneurs," says the alderman, whose ward includes Little Village and North Lawndale on...

This 25-room Lake Forest mansion, called Thorndale Manor, has what may be the most expensive price tag ever for a Chicago-area single-family home. The 19-acre estate, designed by renowned architect...

The Kennedy family sold the Mart in 1998, but Chris has no plans to leave before his five-year contract runs out. He does a nice two-step around the question of...

For more than a century, Science and Nature, the two most prestigious scientific journals in the world, have been stolid, stodgy competitors, pledged to promoting human progress through the reasoned...

Last January, 2nd-grader Erica Boorstein came home from the Latin School of Chicago and proudly announced to her mother that Gwendolyn Brooks had stopped by for a visit -- only...

First the Grinch. Now, the Cat. Two years ago, the wife-husband team of Jennifer Morrish Tunberg and Terence O. Tunberg created a minor publishing triumph with their Latin translation of...

When Kamau Jones went to the bookstore to pre-order the fourth book in the Harry Potter series, his friends teased him about liking "teeny-bopper" books. "I tried to explain to...

With presales of 1.4 million copies, "The Indwelling," the seventh installment in the Christian end-of-the-world saga by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, published by Carol Stream-based Tyndale House, was a...