Dean Baquet

A company that fostered friendships with powerful local fire officials, including Chicago Fire Commissioner Louis Galante, has developed a virtual monopoly over the City of Chicago`s multimillion-dollar fire truck equipment...

Chicago Fire Commissioner Louis Galante, under investigation for allegedly doing architectural work without a license, has been supplementing his fire department income with freelance drafting work for more than 25...

In the late 1960s at a time when many young American men were faced with being drafted and sent to serve in Vietnam, Dan Quayle received help from the former...

Lloyd Bentsen Sr., Texas patriarch, smooth-talking land promoter and father of the Democratic nominee for vice president, rushed home one day in the mid-1930s to tell his family some exhilarating...

The competition for a $74 million contract to design computers for the Illinois State Lottery has turned into a bitter fight featuring teams of politically connected lawyers and a company...

A shift in federal law that slipped past Chicago`s black congressmen could gut the city`s ambitious program to cut in minority businesses on at least $700 million in government contracts,...

The bank executive who allegedly helped Mayor Eugene Sawyer earn a $30,000 finder`s fee by arranging a loan is now a top aide to State Comptroller Roland Burris, Sawyer`s chief...

Last Tuesday morning Ald. Timothy Evans (4th) talked of his plans for reform of the Chicago City Council. As chairman of the Committee on Finance and Mayor Harold Washington`s council...

Mayor Willie Mae James Leake of dirt-poor Chester, Pa., first met the high-powered Wall Street bond executives at a swank Manhattan fundraiser for Carl Officer, the mayor of equally impoverished...

The Chicago City Council`s class of 1987 includes a former bodyguard, a postal worker, a librarian and a schoolteacher. They range from a woman who will rank as the council`s...