Jack Houston

Ald. Wallace Davis (27th), indicted last year on federal corruption charges, was accused Thursday of pistol-whipping a former woman employee who had been interviewed by federal investigators. Police officers said...

Harold Washington and Jane Byrne, who have waged four-year campaigns for the privilege of attaching the title ''mayor'' to their names, are entering the 10 final days of a battle...

The father of two children killed last week in a Chicago River accident and members of a neighborhood group expressed anger Saturday over the failure to repair a park fence...

Spoiled by unseasonably warm weather last month, Chicago residents Saturday retrieved their shovels and dusted off their snowblowers as the city recovered from a wet, heavy snow. Blanketed in white...

Cora Ann Bogle, a critically ill 7-week-old child from south suburban Dolton, died Saturday night while undergoing a liver transplant in Pittsburgh at Children`s Memorial Hospital. Cora Ann died at...

Mayor Harold Washington made it known around the South, Southwest and North Sides Saturday that he is not just the idea man behind a push to register voters. A day...

Chicago`s lights were back on by nightfall Tuesday after a short circuit at a Commonwealth Edison Co. substation caused one of the worst power outages in the city`s history. The...

Twelve years after stashing its books in ''temporary'' quarters in a former warehouse, the Chicago Public Library Board on Tuesday unanimously approved another ''final'' site for a new central library....

The Chicago Public Library Board handed Mayor Harold Washington his second political victory Tuesday in five days when it finally settled on a South Loop site for the new central...

Wide-eyed children flanked by beaming parents pressed cold noses against the plate glass windows of Loop department stores to wonder in awe at the animated Christmas displays, as a curbstone...