For decades some of the city's brightest students have shown their very best at the Chicago Public Schools science fair, but a Lane Tech senior stole the spotlight this year.

Civil War veteran Nathaniel Robinson organized the Artesia School District in a two-story building with one classroom on each ...

Waiting for his selection of four books to be placed into a plastic bag, Axel Sailer was asked what kind of books he was most interested in. He didn't hesitate. "All of them," Sailer, a fifth-grader, ...