The women are part of the Northwestern Prison Education Program, which offers coursework taught by university faculty — ...

Members of the Chicago City Council’s Budget and Government Operations Committee kicked off weeks of budget hearings by ...

Incidents of sexual assault on college campuses are making national headlines after a former student at Cornell University filed a lawsuit last month alleging she was gang raped in a fraternity house ...

Plans to convert a Bridgeport railyard into an Amtrak maintenance facility will receive an environmental review as part of ...

It’s the last day of filing for candidates who want to appear on Chicago’s February ballot. And Northwestern students make history behind bars.

The final group of candidates seeking to deny Mayor Brandon Johnson a second term each filed tens of thousands of signatures ...

A former Evanston alderwoman has spent years trying to answer a question that has vexed the United States since the abolition ...

While former Chicago police Supt. Larry Snelling agreed the officer violated CPD policy, Snelling said the decision to use ...

Early testing is a key component to preventing lead poisoning in children, according to health officials. Testing events will ...

Tom Skerritt, the Emmy-winning actor who embodied a solid, wry authority figure, whether as a flight instructor in “Top Gun,” ...

Investigators have determined that the tactical team that stopped Dexter Reed improperly stopped and searched Chicagoans ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s resurrection of the so-called head tax — which was soundly rejected by the Chicago City Council a ...