University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Milwaukee has the second highest rate of unemployment among black males, and the nation's largest employment gap between black and white men. That's according to a new report from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Economic Development....

If there's one bright side to this country's growing economic crisis, it may be that it's forcing parents to sit down and have the talk with their kids. No, no. Not that talk. This conversation is about dollars and cents, not birds and bees. But it's no...

Travis Zoellick's parents knew their son had problems. They knew the 20-year-old struggled with deep-seated anger even as they struggled to get him help. But in the end, they could only watch as hospital personnel removed him from life support last...

NEW YORK (AP) _ Fear of the government in some communities after the Sept. 11 attacks and years of debate over immigration policy could create problems in getting an accurate count of the U.S. population in 2010, the director of the Census Bureau said...

Fear of government in some communities in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks and years of debate over immigration policy could create issues in getting an accurate head count of the U.S. population for the 2010 census, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau...

2000-present: Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Architecture 1999-present: President, OWP/P, Chicago 1992-99: Principal, OWP/P 1987-91: Architect, John Syvertsen Architect, Chicago 1988-89: Visiting professor, University of...

Most of us take Lake Michigan and its vast resource of fresh water for granted. It's here. It's always been here. But will it always be? There are threats against this and the other Great Lakes—outsiders coveting our region's drinking water and...

This place should be an underwater desert. But as researchers wearing scuba tanks and lead weights drop through the water, the landscape of rounded stones 30 feet below is disturbingly full of strange new life. In just a few years, the gravel and...

OFF ATWATER BEACH, Wis.—This place should be an underwater desert. But as the three researchers wearing scuba tanks and lead weights drop through the water, the landscape of rounded stones 30 feet below is disturbingly full of strange, new life....

They come with their gold rings and tarnished dreams. Some haul in televisions the size of small refrigerators. Others toss down belt sanders and electric saws and quickly slink away in battered pickup trucks. And they make their way to Scott Moline,...

It was a radiant October weekend in this stretch of valley in Forest County, a blue-collar logging town in northern Wisconsin, ringed thickets of yellow birch and other hardwoods that gave rise to the name. The streets were covered in the burnt-orange...

Chicago officials have never tested the city and suburban water supply for pharmaceuticals and other unregulated chemicals, even as concern grows about the possible health effects of trace amounts of drugs in drinking water. So the Tribune and RedEye did...