David Heinzmann

In a sweltering meeting room filled to overflowing, Bronzeville residents fired one question after another at Chicago's 2016 Olympic boosters. "If we can find these resources for an Olympics, why...

A member of Mayor Richard Daley's team working to bring the Olympics to Chicago has quietly arranged to develop city-owned land near a park that would be transformed for the...

After Mayor Richard Daley triggered furious reactions last week by saying the city would take full financial responsibility for hosting a 2016 Summer Games, he promised to bring the details...

Video poker has long been a wink-and-a-nod business for bars, restaurants and social clubs across the state, but now Illinois lawmakers want to legalize gambling on the machines and tap...

Chicago will pay nearly $300,000 to a Southwest Side bar owner and two men falsely arrested by Special Operations Section officers, settling a lawsuit that helped shut down the scandal-plagued...

Although Chicago is among America's most violent cities, the Chicago 2016 bid team is promising a safe and secure Olympic Games, with security paid for by the federal government. Focusing...

Attorney Chris Cooper's legal assault on the Fraternal Order of Police may not change the union's decision to pay for the legal defense of indicted former Police Cmdr. Jon Burge....

John Harris, Gov. Rod Blagojevich's co-defendant in a sweeping political corruption case, resigned Friday as the governor's chief of staff. Harris dropped off his letter of resignation and will not...

The predawn rousting of Gov. Rod Blagojevich from his Ravenswood Manor home Tuesday marked a stunning climax to a tale of alleged public corruption unmatched in Illinois' storied history of...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested Tuesday for what U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald called a "political corruption crime spree" that included attempts to sell...