Dan Mihalopoulos

House Republican Leader Lee Daniels delivered $1.1 million in taxpayer funded pork-barrel grants to Lincoln Park Zoo, and zoo officials wasted little time naming a polar bear "Lee" in honor...

Illinois primary candidates will be taking the high road Saturday as they march behind President Bush in the city's St. Patrick's Day Parade. But that respite of smiles and merriment...

Looking to gain an 11th-hour edge in an increasingly hostile contest, five of the six candidates running for governor faced off in back-to-back televised debates Thursday, with Republicans Corinne Wood...

Political campaigns tend to start and end with smiles and hearty proffers of goodwill, but sandwiched between are the charges and countercharges of candidates who call their opponents sniveling connivers....

Though Republican Jim Ryan and Democrat Roland Burris played key roles in sending Rolando Cruz to Death Row and keeping him there for years, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows most...

With the pressure rising in a tight, three-way Democratic governor's race, Rod Blagojevich on Sunday ridiculed one of his opponents as an arrogant "Buddha" and "sultan," while saying the other...

Democratic candidate for governor Roland Burris said Monday that Gov. George Ryan and lawmakers are operating under a "sky-is-falling mentality" in looking to cut government spending, because the economic situation...

Expanded light rail and express bus service are among the transit options that will be explored in a 16-month study aimed at improving congestion along the Northwest Tollway, officials announced...

In the first broadcast debate of the Democratic campaign for governor, U.S. Rep. Rod Blagojevich emphatically denied Thursday that, if elected, his influential father-in-law, Ald. Dick Mell (33rd), would run...

A truck driver was seriously injured when a tanker loaded with gasoline flipped over and exploded late Sunday in a spectacular blaze that shook the Jefferson Park neighborhood. "This was...