Jamie Francisco

Teachers in a Palatine-based elementary school district approved a new contract Monday that calls for base salary increases of just over 2 percent a year for each of the next...

The Cook County medical examiner's office on Saturday announced six homicides in the Chicago area. - Keinya Brewer, 33, of the 10600 block of South Dauphin Avenue, died Saturday during...

One man disappeared into the chilly waters of Lake Michigan on Sunday after the small single-engine plane he was flying crash-landed 4 miles from the Chicago shoreline. The plane's only...

Quiet and shy, Melvin Balderas, 4, was looking forward to starting preschool Monday. The Wheeling boy's dream was cut short Sunday when a Texas woman lost control of her car...

Drew Ballard stood in the rain Sunday, refusing to let the weather spoil his experience at the first Chicago Gay Pride Parade he attended. "This is the kind of thing...

Two authors recently gave away 50 copies of their book in appreciation for people speaking up about attempts to drop their best seller from an Arlington Heights-based school district's required...

As the summer kayaking season kicked off its first weekend, three men drowned near the Glen D. Palmer Dam on the Fox River in Yorkville, a notoriously dangerous spot that...

As an 8th grader roaming the halls at Bret Harte Elementary School in Hyde Park during the 1940s, Robert Friend campaigned for class president on the slogan: "Bob Friend is...

Dave Morrison said he looked like a teenager when he interviewed 29 years ago for a job as band director at Prospect High School in Mt. Prospect. "I spent the...

One of the last sanctuaries for harassed smokers--America's great outdoors--is increasingly off limits as communities ban tobacco lovers from taking a drag as they stroll through the park, hit the...