Carl Sandburg

CHICAGO Deanna Pirpiris, Chicago, Taft High School NORTH & WEST SUBURBS Courtney Ackerman, Wilmette, New Trier Township High School Leila Ayoub, Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove High School Emily Bartusiak, Lake Forest, Woodlands Academy of...

It launched softly, almost silently, like the inaudible patter that Carl Sandburg called the fog that comes in on little cat feet. The Morning Call's "Walk This Way!" campaign, sponsored by Highmark, began more than two months ago as a way to...

Kaiti Mathey initially attended the University of Iowa, but it wasn't for her. A few weeks later, she was enrolled at Sauk Valley Community College and a walk-on member of the Skyhawks softball team. That was last school year. This year, the West...

When on Jan. 30, 1933, then-German President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as the country's chancellor, it changed German as well as world history. Twelve years later, Hitler ended his own life, but not before millions of victims had perished. Several...

As they prepare for the annual Relay for Life, many students in Consolidated High School District 230 are remembering the loved ones they lost to cancer. That's what spurred Barrie Chileen, a senior at Carl Sandburg High School, to earn financial...

Spring clean-up day is set in Orland Park The Village of Orland Park annual Spring Clean-Up Campaign, in cooperation with Waste Management of the South Suburbs, will be held April 25-27. Dumpsters will be placed at the Public Works Facility, located...

The Dixon Duchesses battled to the end, but Abby Turczyn's two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning lifted the LaSalle-Peru Cavaliers to a 3-1 victory in NIB-12 West softball action Thursday afternoon at Reynolds Field. Brooke Bailey drove in...

The title of the first chapter of Thomas Dyja's "The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream," evokes a smile: "The Brick Is Another Teacher." Dyja's book is roughly brick-size and brick-heft, and I wondered what it might have to teach. •...

A screenwriter who went by the pseudonyms of R. Hyde and Reinhold Timme died recently in Chicago. Others knew the man as Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert's death got us thinking about interesting facts involving movie critics....

From his stove, Nelson Algren saw a dark shape stumble out of the bar across Wabansia Avenue. It teetered once, then slumped under the Nectar Beer sign, sizzling neon in the bitter February cold. Eight degrees, an army fatigue jacket, and too many shots...

It must have been tempting for poet Kevin Coval to read from his own work during “Chicago Classics,” which took place one Friday night in late March in packed-with-people Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center. That is because...

Roger Ebert was a hot trend on Google's top 10 trends earlier this week. As of Wednesday, more than 50,000 people had searched for his name, an impressive display of his influence. He wasn't quite as hot as North Korea or Jay Leno, but he was running...