Celeste Garrett

After visiting the Carol Robertson Learning Center on the West Side and praising Head Start programs, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin vowed to try to defeat a Bush administration proposal that...

As a teenager in Germany, Erika Oppenheimer aspired to a career in psychoanalysis while reading the works of Sigmund Freud in her parents' library, her colleagues said. She went on...

Voters seeking change ousted two incumbent aldermen on Tuesday and ushered two political newcomers--Manuel "Manny" Flores and Howard Brookins Jr.--to take their places in hopes of bringing some independence to...

The rapid, passionate response of well-organized protesters to the war in Iraq surprised police in Chicago and at least 54 other cities. But the rallies and marches were in the...

The city's search to affix responsibility for the deaths of 21 people in a South Side nightclub has centered on a son of one of Chicago's most prominent African-American families...

The question most asked of state Sen.-elect James T. Meeks on Wednesday had nothing to do with issues concerning his district, such as education, a third airport or the cost...

With the pressure rising in a tight, three-way Democratic governor's race, Rod Blagojevich on Sunday ridiculed one of his opponents as an arrogant "Buddha" and "sultan," while saying the other...

As Illinois continues to cut payments to group homes for the developmentally disabled, a company that runs 20 of the homes said it can no longer afford to operate here,...

Moved by the plight of students ousted from a West Side home for the disabled, Gov. George Ryan on Monday rescinded a decision made during a budget cutting frenzy to...