Donna Freedman

While visiting my husband's cousin in a North Shore convalescent center recently, I noticed a laundry hamper in the hallway. Written on it was a thought-provoking statement, "Empty When Full."...

Rev. James T. Meeks, a South Side pastor whose independent candidacy turned the normally predictable 15th state Senate District race into a down-and-dirty political power struggle, narrowly upset Democratic incumbent...

Daniel "Danny" Gustafson, 60, an innovator in local automotive advertising, died of a heart attack Wednesday, Oct. 30, while on his way to a business meeting. The founder and president...

Raeburn "Ray" Flerlage, 87, whose pictures showed Howlin' Wolf howling and Muddy Waters at his moody best and brought innumerable Chicago blues halls to pounding life in glossy images snapped...

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with firing the bullet that flew through a bedroom window and struck an 11-year-old girl doing homework in her Northwest Side home, lodging in...

Information from a tipster who recognized a woman from a police sketch enabled authorities to charge three men and a woman Tuesday in an attempted bank robbery that left one...

Chicago Cub fans love to stop by the Sports Corner Tavern and Grill on game days. Some gobble down a Short Stop Ahi tuna sandwich, while others nibble on Bleacher...

Betty Loren-Maltese's controversial decade-long run as Cicero town president came to an end Friday when a federal jury convicted her of racketeering conspiracy and fraud in connection with the theft...

A priest on leave from his parish since last month because of a sex-abuse allegation has been reinstated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet, church officials said Saturday. Rev....

The associate pastor of a Northwest Side Catholic church fled the country earlier this week before he could be questioned about alleged contact with a minor, according to Catholic Archdiocese...