Jack Houston

Mayor Harold Washington rounded out his three appointments to the new six-member McCormick Place board Saturday by naming Loop attorney Charles A. Tribbett III to the interim panel, according to...

President Reagan campaigned hard for his tax overhaul plan in the Chicago area Thursday, calling it ''a sure recipe for a vibrant surging economy into the 21st Century.'' Calling on...

A feud between two Far South Side neighbors, which simmered for months in Criminal Court proceedings, erupted Wednesday when one man allegedly shot the other before barricading himself in his...

''There was no screaming,'' Lee Stephenson recalled. ''I think it happened too suddenly. I don`t think any of the people in the car knew what happened.'' The people in the...

As parents of seven Joliet area concertgoers killed in a crash with a CTA bus Saturday made preparations to bury their children, authorities sorted through conflicting accounts to reconstruct the...

The Democratic Party`s support of the nation`s welfare system is ''poverty maintenance'' that has kept blacks from striving to succeed, national civil rights leader Roy Innis said in Chicago Sunday....

Like the make-believe characters who gain super strength when a life is at stake, Marquette District patrol officer Larry Wolfer ripped open a protective iron burglar gate, kicked down a...

Five children apparently searching for frogs climbed over a fence at a closed swimming pool in Gary on Sunday, went into the pool and drowned. The victims were Edwin Thigpen...

City Colleges of Chicago and the Chicago Board of Education are working together to develop two alternative public schools for potential high school dropouts. Chicago School Supt. Manford Byrd disclosed...

Two teenage girls missing for 7 1/2 years from their suburban Chicago home were reunited Tuesday with their mother, who flew to Kettering, Ohio, after neighbors and school officials there...