Don Terry

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...

A few hours after the Messenger of Allah died, scores of his ministers hurried to his domed mosque on Stony Island Avenue to learn the fate of their nation. The...

Many of us have traveled by the lakeside promenade named Milton Olive Park unaware of the deep history, and one man's important legacy, represented by that marker. With this week's...

For the last 20 of his 45-plus years, the dark-haired man at the altar has baptized babies, buried grandparents, married young men and women. The fact that he is also...

Activists representing gay Catholics and priests' abuse victims on Wednesday said homosexuality is not responsible for the church's sex abuse crisis and that officials raising the issue are merely trying...

When I was a little boy, my mother used to drag me to the beauty shop if she couldn't find a sitter. I was scared of the sitter. She had...

At 15, Sahara Moorer was tall, smart and beautiful, the daughter of a black father and a white mother. She was also a deeply troubled runaway, haunted by questions of...

When Ali Farhan's older brother opened a small market in Lawndale, he was so proud he gave the shop his first name. Osama. That was eight years ago, before anyone...