Charles M. Madigan

Sometimes, no matter how much structure or logic is applied to a situation, it just doesn't make sense. The record creates events of such screaming despair that the search for...

A day after a Cook County grand jury handed up a series of sexual-misconduct charges against U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds, the first-term congressman and his attorneys issued an indictment of...

Here is a story from the olden days of Chicago politics, followed by some modern variants as recent as last week's federal indictment of U.S. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski. The new...

Dan Rostenkowski's Democratic primary victory should be headed for the textbooks, a classic study of the importance of individual parts, from direct mail to key endorsements to crafting of the...

Here on North Michigan Avenue, in the snazzy building the Nike people transformed into their Cathedral of the Sneaker, Michael Jordan occupies a position of sainthood. His is the lifesize...

Four decades ago, polio left its mark on countless thousands of children, killed many of its adult victims and warped the experience of entire generations. But midway through the 1950s...

There is a 19th Century gift of grandeur here. Well-maintained homes in Queen Anne, Italianate, Georgian Revival and other architecture of earlier, more-ornamented eras grace much of this town 60...

The idea was not to have a media event, but to visit a side of life that was once very important to the Democratic Party, one of the patches in...

Many of the manufacturing jobs that spawned the great Northern migration of blacks from the South have fled the cities-and the nation-in a constant stream over the past three decades....