Local school councils going strong at 18
Chicago is in the midst of its latest wave of modern school reform, but the foundation of the city's first sweeping reform takes center stage on Wednesday as city residents...
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Ex-prof slated to head U. of C.
Robert J. Zimmer, a mathematician and longtime faculty member and administrator at the University of Chicago, is poised to be elected the university's 13th president on Friday. Zimmer, 58, inherits...
Northeastern chief Steinberg moving on
Drawing to a close a long tenure at Northeastern Illinois University, Salme Harju Steinberg on Tuesday announced that she will leave the school's presidency in 2007 after a replacement is...
NIU newspaper latest to join fray over Danish cartoons
The student newspaper at Northern Illinois University this week ran the controversial Danish political cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. The student paper at the University of Illinois is still...
3 students wounded near Schurz
An early-morning shooting that wounded three male students near Schurz High School on Tuesday has rattled parents and residents, who said violence and gang activity is on the rise. "It's...
Landmark church destroyed by fire
Fire swept through Bronzeville's historic Pilgrim Baptist Church on Friday, sending flaming walls and timbers crashing into the grand sanctuary where gospel music was born. The building, a cornerstone of...
State questions library’s costs
Former Walt Disney designer Bob Rogers offered an unusually brief response last spring when explaining how a live actor portraying a fictional Civil War soldier vanished into thin air at...
Hostage’s neighbors fear: `This one is ours’
Surrounded by hooded men hoisting assault-style rifles toward him, a LaPorte, Ind., businessman being held hostage in Iraq pleaded for his life in a video shown Wednesday on the Al...
Mayor’s son reporting for duty
Just months after receiving a graduate business degree from the University of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley's son, Patrick, is joining the U.S. Army with the full support of his father--and...
Obama off to Washington
U.S. Sen.-elect Barack Obama on Sunday will take his first dip into the political cauldron of Washington, a place of oversize egos and intense partisan drama. It may be his...