William Mullen

Getting rid of a decaying old movie theater, as many rueful city and suburban officials can attest, can be as tough as tearing down a beloved old church that's fallen...

The academic staff at Chicago's Newberry Library gathered Wednesday for a yearly challenge — a 90-minute search for treasure buried among the 125,000 books and papers donated for the Near...

Nobody wants anything to do with the rotting, boarded-up house at 6736 S. Honore St. except the squatters and drug addicts who sneak in through the overgrown weeds. Two years...

Whatever you do, don't use my name, said the 83-year-old widow, and the fear in her voice was palpable. That was something I and my colleagues, Dahleen Glanton and Antonio...

If America had not taken on the multibillion-dollar space shuttle program, sending orbiters into space 134 times over 30 years, the world would be without the Hubble Space Telescope's jaw-dropping...

Hoarse-voiced and hard charging, Melba Miles is among longtime residents of Greater Englewood locked in a battle against thieves and predators who have steadily stripped the South Side neighborhood of...

The young woman sat naked and sobbing on the rotting front porch at 5964 S. Lowe Ave. in Englewood when neighbors found her. She had been raped by three men...

Englewood is rapidly being abandoned, many of its blocks now little more than weed-choked and trash-littered urban prairies. A neighborhood that had long been on the brink was pushed over...

For sheer emotional impact, few public celebrations have caught me by surprise – and I suspect more than half a million others there that day, too – like Chicago's 1986...