Andrew Martin

Mayor Richard Daley and his City Hall staff moved quickly on Tuesday to quash a mounting controversy over a paramedic who Chicago fire officials say was drunk when he crashed...

Chicago tavern and other business owners who take bets on video games or allow their employees to do so would be subject to $5,000 fines under an ordinance proposed at...

Officials investigating how the Chicago Fire Department handled a controversial videotape of a raucous firehouse retirement party are recommending the son of Fire Commissioner Edward P. Altman be fired, City...

A tire-store fire that erupted into the worst tragedy for the Chicago Fire Department in more than a decade was first noticed in the most ordinary of ways: Mary Nance...

Cook County Commissioner Herbert Schumann Jr. called for a delay in voting on a bid proposal for a new Cook County Hospital, saying the process is so secret that he...

Joseph Gonzalez, acting head of the city panel charged with safeguarding Chicago's architectural treasures, resigned Wednesday, the latest appointee of Mayor Richard Daley to quit in the wake of ethical...

A female supervisor in Chicago's Fleet Management Department sought help from the federal courts Tuesday for what she alleged is repeated sexual harassment and mistreatment by her bosses. Ruth Figueroa,...

Once again last week, Mayor Richard Daley resorted to an increasingly standard response to a scandal in his administration: He said he didn't know. Yet even as the mayor raised...

Cook County State's Atty. Dick Devine fulfilled a campaign promise by reviewing the controversial death of a mentally ill Humboldt Park man while he was being subdued by three Chicago...

In one snapshot, Andrew Cunanan seems all innocence--a baby-faced preppy with horned-rim glasses and a fetching grin. In another, he appears a gaunt, angular gigolo, with lips thinly pursed, dark...