As a carpenter and business owner in Chicago with years of experience under his tool belt, Melvin Henley said he sees a need for more skilled trade workers, especially in minority communities. Now, he ...

Wilmer S. Webster, who trained hundreds of area carpenters and was a 50-year member of Carpenters Local No. 101, died Friday at home of cancer. He was 77 and had lived since 1948 in the house he built ...