Gary Washburn

Chicago Teachers Union delegates voted Wednesday to authorize the city's first teacher strike in 16 years on Dec. 4 if contract talks continue to lag. The 543-98 vote by the...

Latin School officials have modified a plan to build a new middle school that they say addresses neighborhood concerns about the building's height and added traffic congestion, while meeting all...

After vocal calls by some public officials for an outside investigation into Friday's Loop high-rise fire that killed six people, Cook County Board President John Stroger changed his position Tuesday...

Most Chicago teachers and parents went to bed Thursday in suspense about the outcome of a key teacher contract vote as an outside agency continued the tedious job of counting...

City Clerk James Laski, on a mission to force city sticker scofflaws to pay up, said Friday that he will propose a measure that would allow police to snoop where...

Despite state plans to remove all 130 of its wards from Maryville Academy's Des Plaines campus, the Blagojevich administration and Maryville have begun negotiations that officials of the youth facility...

The politically connected Duff family used its matriarch and a trusted black associate to pose as fronts for phony women- and minority-owned businesses in a massive, dozen-year fraud that garnered...

A City Council committee on Thursday advanced a resolution that would make Chicago the largest city in the nation to condemn the USA Patriot Act, which aldermen said is trampling...

A controversial private guard firm co-owned by the brother of Ald. Danny Solis (25th) has won a contract for up to 27 months to guard the renovated Soldier Field and...

Thousands of people crowded Daley Plaza a year ago to commemorate the first anniversary of the terrorist acts in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. This year there will be no...