Andrew Martin

A reputed gang leader has been sentenced to 80 years in prison for opening fire on two Chicago police officers, critically injuring one, last New Year`s Eve. Roosevelt Burrell, 25,...

Mayor Eugene Sawyer on Saturday looked toward his first full week on the job and the impending battle over the city budget and tax increases, but fiscal considerations continued to...

Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer, embroiled in controversy and exhausted by opposition, took on the formidable task Wednesday of overcoming the hostility of many Chicagoans and the indifference of many others....

The Chicago of Mayor Harold Washington`s vision bade him goodbye this weekend at City Hall, where he had made the diverse and the dispossessed feel welcome for the first time....

The Chicago of Mayor Harold Washington`s vision bade him goodbye this weekend at City Hall, where he had made the diverse and the dispossessed feel welcome for the first time....

Two deaf and speech-impaired men were charged Tuesday with the murder of a Ravenswood neighborhood woman, also with speech and hearing impairments, who was killed during a burglary in her...

Edward A. Loss, a former fugitive and drug addict who wants to practice law, has taken his case to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying Tuesday that the denial of a...

About a year after being struck by a car near the same site, a 7-year-old girl was killed by a school bus Monday afternoon when she returned home from school....

In the world of stocks, bonds and futures, there are indicators other than the Dow Jones industrial average or the Standard & Poor`s 500. If you want a taste of...

Some Chicago public school pupils spent more time this week getting to and from school than they did in class. They were required to leave home early-the starting time for...