Phat X. Chiem

Though he saw death as a friend rather than an enemy, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin had a clear understanding of grief. "Letting go is not the easiest thing in the world,"...

Consider it a wakeup call, that incredibly ill wind that blasted its way through the Chicago area at house-rattling speed, leaving in its wake toppled trees, dark traffic lights and...

Sheets of sideways rain. Sixty- to 80-mile-an-hour winds. Ninety thousand homes and businesses without electricity. Hundreds of power lines toppled. Metra lines delayed. Flights cancelled. That was the reality late...

For residents of the Cabrini-Green public housing complex, redevelopment always has been a code word for kicking them off valuable land. On Thursday, they announced efforts to block that perceived...

For years, if residents of Chicago's South and West Sides wanted to see a first-run movie, they had to leave their neighborhoods and travel up to 10 miles, often into...

Chicago police removed more than 100 guns, two hand grenades and about 25,000 rounds of ammunition Saturday evening from the house of a Northwest Side man who had died earlier...

On Wednesday, America Online wasn't. The nation's largest computer on-line service went off-line early Wednesday morning and remained down throughout the day, frustrating many of its 6 million subscribers and...

It's not a large number, only 11 of the state's more than 1,100 banks and thrifts. Beginning Thursday, however, those 11, which operate less than 5 percent of the automated...