Ann Marie Lipinski

A Chicago City Council committee recommended approval Monday of a settlement that commits Mayor Eugene Sawyer to observe the Shakman decree ban on political hiring and authorizes paying about $1...

Mayor Eugene Sawyer, struggling to resolve the worst political crisis of his short tenure, bowed to community pressure Thursday and fired a mayoral aide who accused Jews of engaging in...

Mayor Eugene Sawyer, buffeted by increasingly angry demands to decide the fate of an aide who has rocked his administration with racist remarks, broke promises to resolve the matter Wednesday,...

An aide to Mayor Eugene Sawyer issued a written apology for a series of racial and religious slurs Monday, but the brief statement did not quiet calls both inside and...

When his wristwatch ticked past 11:30 a.m. and he still couldn`t see past the shoes at the front of his darkened store, Nick Grunzke got desperate. Like thousands of store...

Former Ald. Wallace Davis Jr., who was convicted of accepting bribes and kickbacks from a relative and constituents in his West Side 27th Ward, was sentenced to 8 1/2 years...

The ex-convict cabdriver charged with wounding three Chicago police officers in a gun battle Tuesday should not have been licensed to drive a taxi under the city`s code, officials conceded...

Four of Mayor Eugene Sawyer`s staunchest supporters were defeated in their bids for Democratic ward committeeman in key black wards Tuesday, causing severe embarrassment for the new mayor, whose own...

The money, they say, isn`t what it used to be, but the men and women running for Chicago`s 50 Democratic ward committeeman posts are asking for more than the right...

''Council Wars II'' was playing at City Hall during a long and rancorous debate Wednesday before the Chicago City Council approved an ordinance that will eliminate a 25-year-old near-monopoly by...