It's a double award this week for the Chicago State men's and women's basketball teams. Jasmine Dixon of the women's team was named as the NCAA Division I Women's Independent Player of the Week while men's guard David Holston garnered yet another as the N
Rampant gang conflicts and unemployment in two neighboring communities on the West Side have long stifled growth and opportunities in the area. But the idea to transform an old fire station into a community arts center could be the beacon of hope the area
Watching the grim reality of many of his congregants standing in line for non-perishable foods every week moved a South Side minister to launch a community forum to address the issue of hunger. Leonardo D. Gilbert, a minister and community activist, is sp
Ald. Ed Smith said the people spoke, but not for him Cook County Recorder of Deeds Eugene Moore slid to an easy victory in Tuesday's election over challenger Ald. Ed Smith (28th). Moore collected 219,179 votes, Smith had 126,930.
A gunman who killed five women at a suburban Chicago clothing store sexually assaulted one of his victims, police said on Wednesday as the attack's lone survivor commented publicly for the first time.
LAFAYETTE, Tenn. - Residents in five Southern states tried to salvage what they could Wednesday from homes reduced to piles of debris, a day after the deadliest cluster of tornadoes in nearly a decade tore through the region, snapping trees and crumpling
PHILADELPHIA - The checks to Temple University really were in the mail ù for $5 million. It was a total surprise for the school to receive the anonymous donations, which arrived in a pair of nondescript envelopes sent via U.S. mail from a bank in Arizona,
N'DJAMENA,Chad - Chad's president said his government was in control of the entire country Wednesday, speaking publicly for the first time since rebels tried to overthrow him. Idriss Deby wore a military uniform as he received reporters in the presidentia
Forty-seven years ago, my grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower bid farewell to a nation he had served for more than five decades. In his televised address, Ike famously coined the term “militaryindustrial complex,” and he offered advice that is st
One might look at the Super Tuesday result for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as a test of several propositions that have dogged his campaign to this point. There have been questions about whether he could be competitive with the white vote, whether he could
