Gary Washburn

A 2016 Summer Olympics in Chicago would spread beyond the downtown lakefront to include a temporary 95,000-seat stadium in a historic South Side park under a dramatically revised plan unveiled...

Just two weeks after their ban on foie gras took effect, Chicago aldermen Wednesday signaled a willingness to compromise on a proposal to outlaw the use of trans fat oils...

Officials at the Mexican Consulate said Wednesday they are planning to fly the grandparents of five children killed in a Rogers Park apartment fire to Chicago for funeral services, scheduled...

A Target store planned for a long-vacant South Side site remained in limbo Thursday, and a letter from the retailer said no other proposed Chicago stores will go forward while...

Before the Chicago City Council voted to pass the "big-box" living-wage ordinance, the city Law Department advised that there would be "significant risk" of a court overturning the law. But...

Chicago's First Lady Maggie Daley underwent breast cancer surgery Thursday, and her doctor said she was coping "extremely well" with an advanced form of the disease. Daley walked out of...

In its first report focused on improving treatment for drug addicts in the criminal justice system, the National Institute on Drug Abuse released 13 research-based guidelines Monday that the agency...

Cook County commissioners set a July 19 meeting to pick one of their own for the unfinished term of board President John Stroger, but there was no consensus Wednesday on...

LaSalle Street's role as a financial center and reservoir of Chicago's historic character is being threatened as office tenants flee its grand but often outmoded buildings for new high-rises being...

This is the choice that faced Kendra Hillmer and dozens of fellow passengers on the Blue Line train that derailed and ground to a halt in a blackened subway tunnel...