George Papajohn

The air in the outdoor corridor is heavy with anticipation, along with the usual fetid mix of urine and alcohol. With the imminent arrival of the postal carrier, a small...

Provident Hospital, shuttered since it fell into bankruptcy, got another chance Monday as federal Housing Secretary Jack Kemp offered to sell the South Side facility to the state for $1....

The thing that Billy Jackson remembers about the four FBI agents who came to arrest him Nov. 4 was that they were so well-mannered. ''They were very nice,'' he said....

A controversial Chicago Transit Authority contractor gave its employees pink slips instead of paychecks Friday after its bank cut off credit, attorneys for the firm`s unionized employees said. About 50...

Richard Phelan, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for Cook County Board president, will be off the campaign trail for a couple weeks and will weigh the possibility of withdrawing...

Winter blew into town Thursday and got down to business immediately, slapping the Chicago area with its coldest day in 23 months and its coldest Dec. 21 ever recorded. The...

A drunk driver ran a stop sign on the South Side Tuesday afternoon and rammed the side of a school bus, killing an 8-year-old girl and slightly injuring eight of...

It`s a long drive from south suburban Dolton to Chicago`s Uptown neighborhood and the Domino`s pizza on Lawrence Avenue. But for a kid with his eyes on junior college, like...

Investigators Thursday were studying the possibility that metal shards may have broken loose from the rear engine of a United Airlines DC-10 and sliced through hydraulic control lines in the...

Slow Dance, Southside Johnny (Cypress). In the liner notes for Southside Johnny and the Asbury Juke`s first record in 1976, Bruce Springsteen called Southside ''one of the weirdest guys I...