Patrick Reardon

With so much at stake and so much to consider, parents can feel overwhelmed by the task of finding good child care. But help is available though a wide range...

The school funding system in Illinois-already so unequal that some school districts spend five times more per student than others-is going to grow even more inequitable in the foreseeable future,...

In a new twist in the national debate on the rights of pregnant women, a Rockford mother has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after her daughter was born with cocaine...

Chicago business groups pulled out all the stops Thursday and warned of a ''nightmare'' of small children in the Loop while testifying against a proposed ordinance to require office-building developers...

Last year, 294,974 major crimes were committed in Chicago, an increase of 6 percent over the previous year. That works out to nearly 1 major crime for every 10 people....

Inner-city black Chicagoans with inadequate educations and little experience in the work world have been the people least likely to benefit from Project Chance, Illinois` much-touted welfare-to-work program, state records...

The Chicago Housing Authority plans to spend more than $14 million to renovate two of the six abandoned lakefront high-rises that a developer wants to replace with low-rise, low-income units....

Mayor Eugene Sawyer Tuesday formally disbanded an advisory council set up to study problems at the Chicago Housing Authority, lamenting that few funds exist to carry out the group`s recommendations...

The Chicago Urban League has endorsed the idea of replacing the Chicago Housing Authority`s family high-rises with low-rise scattered-site units and criticized the CHA for wasting millions of dollars a...

In a sharp reversal from previous statements, top Chicago school officials said Wednesday that the school system would be able to use for educational reforms all-or nearly all-of the $122...