Evan Osnos

Nearly 2 million Cook County residents went to the polls this week and gripping a small stylus, punched pinholes in a computer card to vote for president and other offices....

Nearly a dozen Lake County teens whose voter registrations were voided last month will not be allowed to cast ballots Tuesday after a federal judge Monday threw out a last-minute...

In Cicero, political history reads like dime-store fiction, complete with secret alliances, tainted ballots and a lawsuit over bogus letters of withdrawal. And that's just this year. In the latest...

One day after a Commonwealth Edison circuit breaker exploded at a key substation, producing a massive downtown blackout, Mayor Richard Daley on Monday called on ComEd to accelerate system improvements...

Reviving concerns about the progress of Commonwealth Edison's $1.9 billion infrastructure overhaul, an explosion and fire at a power station with a troubled past Sunday triggered a cascade of equipment...

A string of Chicago movie houses, including the venerable Biograph Theater, has been shut because two prominent entrepreneurs touted by Mayor Richard Daley failed to pay hundreds of thousands in...

The temperature had climbed to nearly 80 degrees by 9 a.m. Tuesday, the morning Margaret Jones buckled her 9-month-old son, Tyrelle, into a car seat for what would be his...

On Monday, while President Clinton drew wild applause from Democrats at their convention in Los Angeles, Marla Hawkins worked late in her West Loop insurance office. On Tuesday, while Caroline...

At odds for years over a strategy for rebuilding Soldier Field, Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Bears officials on Monday expressed confidence in a proposal to renovate the 76-year-old stadium...

As she did every Wednesday, Natividad Lopez began to worry as soon as she dropped off her 12-year-old son, Miguel DeLaRosa, in their old Northwest Side neighborhood for Bible study...