Around town, Chicagoans are boiling over the hike in the parking meter prices.

Nov. 11, 2009, has become a very special Veteran’s Day.

Young people should know that no matter what they are doing, somebody is watching.

The countdown has started for the 2016 Summer Olympics bid.

In a perfect world, everyone would be rewarded commensurate with his or her merits. In a perfect world, people would be chosen for schools, jobs and even spouses, based upon agreed upon guidelines. Everything would be fair, and no one would feel slighted.

We are no longer surprised when rumor, embellishment and outright lies seem to have a longer and stronger life than the truth.

They have completed the investigatory phase at Burr Oak Cemetery, and still, no one has any answers, and no one has any peace.

If you’re a homebuyer or investor looking for great property at affordable prices, you’ll find plenty of choices at Hudson & Marshall’s auction of nearly 70 bank-owned foreclosures in Chicago.

It has been 80 years since the Chicago Defender's founder Robert Sengstacke Abbott created Bud Billiken and established what has grown to be the largest annual parade and day of family, fun and entertainment of its kind–in the country. On Aug. 11, 1929 the first parade rolled down what was then South Parkway (now Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive).