Gary Washburn

With considerable fanfare and playing to a big audience, Mayor Richard Daley started the week by declaring his candidacy for a sixth term in office. On Tuesday, however, the drudgery...

As he moves to resume lucrative daily flights by Virgin Atlantic Airways between Chicago and London, Richard Branson is pressing City of Chicago officials to adopt one of his pet...

In speaking of his wife, Margaret, over the years, Chicago Ald. Richard Mell (33rd) would tell the story of how he met her over an ice cream cone and a...

Alarmed by signs that Mayor Richard Daley is losing his iron grip on the City Council, a major business group plans to launch a campaign to defeat aldermen who don't...

Mayor Richard Daley, whose son is a soldier, said Wednesday that Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) was wrong for telling students they will "get stuck in Iraq" if they don't make...

Bernadine Murphy-Wilson's two teenage boys yelled frantically to her in the telephone late Monday night, while their younger sister shouted in the background. The mother couldn't understand their panic until...

City traffic engineers on Wednesday inspected a South Side crosswalk to see if changes are needed to improve safety after an elderly woman was struck and killed there by a...

In the past week, Tickets321 in Chicago sold more than 100 Super Bowl XLI tickets to Bears fans willing to risk enough money for a mortgage payment in the belief...

As Republican leaders wondered aloud Thursday how damaging the House page scandal will be in the midterm elections, they needed to look no further than hotly contested congressional races in...

A sidewalk cafe outside the Congress Plaza Hotel, scene of a prolonged labor strife, was forced to close Tuesday after union pressure prompted the local alderman to withdraw her support...