Gary Washburn

His voice choking, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois took to the Senate floor Tuesday and explicitly offered "heartfelt apologies" for comparing America's treatment of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention...

People seeking prostitutes in Chicago already face arrest and impoundment of their cars if they are caught, but now they risk something else: public embarrassment on a city Web site....

Is Chicago really the king of unclean? Mayor Richard Daley doesn't think so. He lashed out Thursday morning at a study recently released by Reader's Digest that calls Chicago the...

Aldermen talked at length about their love of the cinema when film critic Roger Ebert was honored last week by Chicago's City Council. The ever-loquacious Ald. Burton Natarus (42nd) revealed...

A veteran employee of the city's troubled Department of Water Management was arrested Wednesday on charges he headed the Chicago distribution cell of a Colombian heroin-trafficking ring while making $30...

A Chicago woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the owners of the Lincoln Park building where she fell four stories Sunday after a porch railing collapsed. Allison Gwin suffered several...

City officials continued their investigation Monday into the fatal failure of a porch railing on a South Side building but, in a bizarre twist, announced that an inspector who visited...