James Hill

At a time when the bosses of the Austin District were accepting national recognition for their old-fashioned community-style policing programs, officers in the tactical unit allegedly were using techniques that...

The travel forecasters had warned of potential monster traffic jams, heated tempers and waiting lines of biblical proportions for Wednesday's pre-Thanksgiving rush in and out of town. As a result,...

The images were at once incongruous and perfectly suited to the moment and the man they honored: A Hebrew psalm sung by a church choir, rabbis offering eulogies before a...

Already stung by reports that city workers owed $2.3 million in unpaid water and parking fines, Mayor Richard Daley's administration disclosed Friday that employees of other city agencies, from schools...

A corporate jet, struggling to gain altitude as it lifted off the runway Wednesday at Palwaukee Municipal Airport, bounced over traffic whizzing beneath it on nearby Hintz Road in Wheeling...

Most of the attention on Chicago's lakefront in recent months has been directed at the plot of land known until just a few weeks ago as Meigs Field. But on...

At age 53, and four years removed from her role as head of Planned Parenthood, Faye Wattleton has begun a new chapter of her life and a new mission. Author...

The mythological mountain for which Olympians are named has two sides. One month ago, the athletes traveled up the emotional peak of the Atlanta Games, where they paraded in the...

In 1993, at the funeral of a 14-year-old boy killed in a gang shootout at the Cabrini-Green public housing development, Marion Nzinga Stamps told the crowd of youthful mourners: "Brothers...

David Dellinger finally got arrested. Five days after he arrived for the Democratic convention, Dellinger and 10 other people were handcuffed and charged with disorderly conduct after they tried to...