Ray Quintanilla

I learned the strangest, yet lovely, things while playing baseball as a kid. My childhood neighbor once told me why he named his son for Reggie Jackson. The Oakland Athletics'...

It took Sandy Haislet a year of hard work at her local community college before she decided she really wanted to pursue a bachelor's degree at a larger school. "It...

Now that a U.S. invasion of Haiti is off and the Caribbean nation's military leaders have agreed to step down, Haitians living in Chicago appealed to President Clinton on Sunday...

Public health officials are trying to determine the source of a bacterial infection that has been contracted by eight people living in the stable area of Arlington International Racecourse. None...

One by one, a few relatives of passengers aboard doomed USAir Flight 427 came to O'Hare International Airport Thursday night. The flight had originated there hours earlier, and, as happens...

Some 40,000 Metra commuters in the northern, northwestern and western suburbs will be able to catch their trains as usual Monday, but there's no guarantee the rest of the week...

A 19-year-old Wilmette man has been arrested on charges of trying to pay someone to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend. Kevin Schwall, 19, of 225 16th St., was charged with solicitation...

In the wake of four financial scandals at the Chicago Housing Authority, Chairman Vincent Lane announced Sunday that 12 employees will either be fired, reassigned or given early retirement. Lane...

Two Chicago teenagers nearly drowned Thursday in separate incidents at their high school swimming pools, leaving one student on life support. Mark Werner, a student at Prosser Vocational High School...