Wes Smith

A 22-year-old North Side man with swastika tattoos, bandages on one hand and a membership card for two neo-Nazi organizations in his wallet told Chicago police Friday that he damaged...

For many striking Chicago public school teachers, the Board of Education`s 3 percent salary increase offer is too little, too late. Dozens of teachers interviewed Friday afternoon said they might...

River watchers with yardsticks in hand stood guard Thursday morning, monitoring the overburdened Des Plaines River and Salt Creek for the effects of the previous day`s three-inch rain. But despite...

A young ''gentle giant'' who had become a national symbol of the plight of the student-athlete in getting an education erupted violently Thursday in a downtown hotel room. Former Creighton...

Proposed welfare reform in Illinois could increase the number of homeless people, especially homeless families, according to city officials, advocates for the homeless and a report released Saturday by the...

Ald. Wallace Davis (27th), accused of pistol-whipping his former secretary Feb. 26, proclaimed his innocence Wednesday in a telephone interview with The Tribune from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he...

Sports-minded Chicagoans can only sip hot liquids and dream of what might have been on Super Bowl Sunday. It might have been a rosy 65 degrees and sunny in Pasadena,...

Fans, friends and family of the Chicago Bears came to Soldier Field on Saturday fully prepared to celebrate the successful outcome of a routine operation. But complications developed and the...

The owner of the Farm Inn Restaurant in Wasco was sentenced to six months of work release Thursday by a federal judge in Chicago for using the popular nightspot to...

Melvin Kanter, 76, was a dapper and disarming defense lawyer who handed out hard candy to his clients and cash bribes to his judges, according to a federal indictment and...