Frank James

They are the offspring of fear: Pink geraniums in reinforced cement pots. Decorative steel bars. Motion sensors shaped like tree stumps. Outside the White House or inside the most common...

Amid great fanfare, civic pride and a Who's Who of Chicago's establishment, ground was broken Thursday for the new $700 million Northwestern Memorial Hospital center, the most costly hospital ever...

The case of a suburban woman who may have been given a transfusion of HIV-tainted blood during a recent surgery is extremely rare, medical experts say, but it exposes a...

Twenty-two-year-old Teresa Smith doesn't like living on welfare. Almost every day, she goes looking for work. But, so far, she's come up empty. "There aren't enough jobs out there," said...

Just over a month ago, Philip Luhmann was just another obscure bureaucrat. At City Colleges of Chicago, where he was entering his 21st year as treasurer, he was known as...

The Illinois Community College Board said Wednesday it is launching a sweeping review of the investment practices of City Colleges of Chicago, after firing its treasurer for engaging in a...

City Colleges of Chicago fired its treasurer Friday after discovering he had, without authorization, placed most of its nearly $100 million investment portfolio into extremely high-risk securities, officials said. City...

In an effort to further portray himself as a financial underdog in the Democratic primary for attorney general, Martin Oberman on Thursday unveiled a TV spot that was low budget...

In the latest joust between the two lawyers vying for the Democratic nomination for Illinois attorney general, Al Hofeld on Thursday disclosed his $14.3 million net worth after weeks of...

Trying to climb out of last place in his election campaign, John Stroger on Tuesday clambered aboard the popular statewide political bandwagon of anti-crime initiatives with two new TV ads...