CITY WON`T PROVIDE LAYOFF INFORMATION
Aides to Mayor Richard Daley said Thursday that they would not disclose the names of the 773 city workers laid off in recent waves of budget cuts nor disclose basic...
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CITY LAYOFFS AFFECT MINORITIES MOSTLY
City officials released data Monday showing that black and Hispanic workers bore the brunt of the layoffs that came in recent months as part of Mayor Richard Daley`s ''bad news...
FEDS TRAIL DEALINGS OF CONTRACTOR
Henry Disharoon looked more like a West Texas oil wildcatter than an executive who oversaw multimillion-dollar federal construction projects. He wore cowboy boots and bomber jackets, tooled to job sites...
POLICE STUDY TURNS UP HEAT ON BRUTALITY
For years, dozens of suspects who entered a Far South Side police station emerged with chilling accounts of their interrogation there. They said that they had been tortured. Few listened...
13 YEARS OF COP TORTURE ALLEGED
Mayor Richard Daley and Police Supt. LeRoy Martin Friday defended the Chicago police against a department report that said officers tortured suspects at a South Side station for more than...
REPORT CITES COP TORTURE OF SUSPECTS
There was a systematic pattern of police torture of suspects at the Brighton Park police area for more than a decade during the 1970s and 1980s, according to a Chicago...
LITTLE ROCK REELS FROM CLINTON FRENZY
There are days when this placid, Bible Belt town feels like a living tabloid newspaper. While polls show that most Americans have moved past the allegations of marital infidelity that...
CLINTON`S ACCUSER GETS PINK SLIP
Gennifer Flowers, who rocked Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton`s presidential campaign with claims of a 12-year extramarital affair, was fired from her state job Wednesday for failing to show up to...
JUDGE BLOCKS DEMAND FOR GROUP`S RECORDS
In a move that a federal court judge said could chill free-speech protections, city lawyers last week demanded that a citizens group protesting police brutality turn over its records and...
3 DEPARTMENTS TELL NUMBERS OF CITY FIRINGS
As protests from fired city workers mounted, officials in three City Hall departments on Thursday disclosed the number of employees they had laid off during the latest waves of budget...