Gary Washburn

A longtime city contractor falsified a shipping ticket to claim his firm delivered more than 200 blank signs that the city purchased from the company, officials charged Thursday. Unless Chicago...

Given the choice of fishing around for quarters to feed parking meters or using credit cards, downtown motorists are reaching for the plastic. Sixty percent of the revenue generated so...

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Chicago discriminated against African-American applicants who took a 1995 firefighter entrance exam, ending a long chapter in a seven-year legal battle. The lawsuit alleged...

Although Mayor Richard Daley's administration says it wants to create a culture of recycling in Chicago, there is far less of it being done under the showcase blue bag program...

Peace was the watchword of 1960s activists, so it's perhaps no surprise that some of that era's most prominent activists recently joined the new national advisory board of the Peace...

Musician Jimmy Buffett may symbolize the laid-back lifestyle, but his image took a hit last week when a City Council committee considered a proposal to permit two Buffett concerts at...

Donald Trump's spire isn't going higher. The flamboyant developer and reality TV star said Tuesday he no longer wants to construct the nation's tallest building in Chicago. Last month, Trump...

Talking about his efforts to push gun-control legislation, Mayor Richard Daley went off like a .357 Magnum last week when a reporter asked him if Gov. Rod Blagojevich was doing...