Dan Mihalopoulos

In his long career as an independent state lawmaker and ardent foe of Chicago's Democratic machine, Miguel del Valle was canonized by political insiders as "Santo Miguel." For some critics,...

Opposed by five political unknowns, Ald. Arenda Troutman had appeared well on her way to winning another four-year term in the Feb. 27 election. There was little interest in the...

After the polls closed on Election Night last month and the 10th Ward Democrats had gathered at the Crow Bar, three campaign workers called over the owner of the corner...

A high-ranking city official with close political ties to Mayor Richard Daley should be fired for his role in the 2004 hiring of an unqualified teenage building inspector, the city's...

In a fresh attempt to bring a corrupt City Hall contractor back from Mexico to testify against Chicago officials, federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they are again charging the fugitive...

A fired city worker who improperly helped get truck-driving licenses for three employees tied to then-Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Al Sanchez should get his job back, a hearing officer said....

Mayor Richard Daley told special prosecutors that he could not remember much about the police torture case that ultimately got Cmdr. Jon Burge fired. Though Daley was state's attorney in...

Former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge led the torture of criminal suspects for two decades, coercing dozens of confessions with fists, kicks, radiator burns, guns to the mouth, bags over...

They were everything the jurors who convicted former Gov. George Ryan earlier this year were not: orderly, organized, amicable and in agreement on nearly everything from the moment deliberations began....

When Mayor Richard M. Daley geared up for his 1995 re-election campaign, he was not dependent on the Democratic ward organizations that rallied city workers for the political machine of...