Rick Hepp

Barred by war and politics from a country he helped found, Milan Hodza will be given his third funeral on Monday in a Northwest Side church and then be taken...

In 1995, a priest accused of abusing two boys was welcomed back by parishioners with tears, applause and rejoicing. Since then, Rev. John Calicott has sustained the respect and support...

Hot air straight from the Gulf of Mexico, with an unusual assist from the jet stream, routed the last remnants of Chicago's chilly spring Monday, sending the thermometer to a...

Jolted by a brawl between two South Side grade schools this week, educators and community leaders worked Friday to craft a truce and confront an apparent breakdown in discipline both...

A simmering rivalry between pupils at two Chicago elementary schools exploded into a brawl Thursday that included youngsters swinging bats and sticks, sending 19 children to area hospitals. None of...

Hundreds paid their respects Wednesday to fallen Chicago Police Officer Donald Marquez, remembering him as the son who called his parents every day just to check in, the friend who...

As thousands of Far Southwest Side residents endured a second wintry day without heat, City Hall blamed Peoples Energy Co. for the utility's worst outage in 25 years--even though it...

Its fingerprints may not have been on the ouster of the Falun Gong from Chicago's Chinese New Year parade, but the Chinese government has moved to keep the spiritual movement...

Trying to revive Chicago's faltering local school councils--widely regarded as the linchpin of the city's vaunted reform movement--schools chief Arne Duncan on Thursday pleaded with parents and community members to...

There's nothing like a new toy, and the scores of workers who clear snow from runways at O'Hare International Airport finally got to try out the new, state-of-the-art snowplows that...