Douglas Frantz

A lobbyist for Waste Management Inc. helped an FBI undercover informant offer payments and favors to Chicago aldermen in a federal investigation of suspected government corruption, according to sources familiar...

A second company that won a city bill-collection contract has come under scrutiny in the federal investigation of alleged corruption in Chicago government, an executive of the firm acknowledged Thursday....

Plans for a new international terminal at O`Hare International Airport have been endangered by cost overruns in the airport expansion project and by opposition from major domestic airlines, sources in...

Department of Justice officials are studying whether documents discovered in the files of E.F. Hutton & Co. after it pleaded guilty last spring to 2,000 counts of mail and wire...

James Lowry, a business consultant and confidant of Mayor Harold Washington, was denied a $280,000, no-bid contract to revamp the city`s purchasing practices Tuesday by the City Council Finance Committee....

Chicago lawyer Marvin Jay Glass has been arrested and charged with felony theft after $8,000 allegedly was stolen from his vacationing mother-in-law`s safe deposit box, police said Monday. His arrest...

A clearinghouse to help minorities and women get government contracts was formed Monday by a group of black business people and a small South Side law school. Among the business...

Two aldermen aligned with the mayor called for an investigation of the city`s Purchasing Department Wednesday after a management consultant`s report said the city loses millions of dollars a year...

Mayor Harold Washington said Thursday that Chicago does not have enough minority-owned businesses to handle the ''millions of dollars'' in public works contracts, forcing the city to award contracts to...

Plastic was invented here, and that`s just one reason the Kanawha Valley is called the chemical center of the world by those who work here. In many ways it is...