Gary Washburn

It was negotiation by phone last week when city officials and competing teams of lobbyists conducted marathon bargaining on the terms of Chicago's new smoking ban ordinance. The back-and-forth stretched...

Road crews did the best they could to handle the fast falling snow that turned expressways into parking lots and sent travel times soaring during the season's first major snowstorm,...

A blowing snowstorm, a tail wind pushing their plane faster toward Midway Airport and a short runway that became progressively slicker all worked against the pilots of Southwest Airlines Flight...

Road crews did the best they could to handle the fast falling snow that turned expressways into parking lots and sent travel times soaring during the season's first major snowstorm,...

Mayor Richard Daley flatly rejected the notion Tuesday that cuts in the city's Personnel Department contributed to patronage hiring in his administration. Since taking office in 1989, Daley slashed staffing...

White Sox fan-in-chief Mayor Richard Daley applauded Paul Konerko's re-signing Thursday but not without weighing in on the issue of rich athletes and responsibility. "Let's put everything in perspective," Daley...

Pit bulls, a breed involved in highly publicized and particularly vicious attacks on people and other animals, eventually would be outlawed in Chicago under a controversial proposal introduced Wednesday. Pit...

A former high-level city official admitted Tuesday that workers for Mayor Richard Daley's political organization routinely were rewarded with city jobs and promotions based on how well they campaigned for...

Is it possible that Mayor Richard Daley and former Mayor Jane Byrne, longtime and sometimes bitter political foes, have buried the hatchet? Byrne, who dedicated the city's memorial to Vietnam...

Here's a sobering prospect for youngsters who rush to the TV and video games after school: Mayor Richard Daley, who already has said he favors a year-round schedule for public...