James Hill

In their final and most combative debate, Democratic U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun and Republican challenger Peter Fitzgerald charged full speed at each other Friday, tussling over abortion and gun control...

Republican Aurelia Pucinski, a candidate for Cook County Board president, pledged Thursday to toughen the county's whistle-blower ordinance. A Cook County Hospital employee is charging in a lawsuit that he...

With slightly more than a month left until the Nov. 3 general election, the tone of Illinois' political advertising turned even nastier Friday with new attack ads from the Democratic...

The final deadline for nearly 3,500 truck drivers to retake the test for commercial licenses and learner's permits is Friday. But as of Thursday, only a fraction had been retested,...

Secretary of State George Ryan, the Republican candidate for governor, halted testing Tuesday for commercial driver's licenses at the Melrose Park facility raided by the FBI last week and at...

Residents of Chicago's Austin neighborhood have struggled for years to erase the area's reputation as a haven for violence, drugs and gangs. Working together, a band of community groups and...

Exactly two years ago , a gang member pointed a 9mm semiautomatic Bryco 59 at Andrew Young as he sat in his car in rush-hour traffic at a stoplight at...

Nearly six months ago, the Chicago City Council passed a taxicab law that aldermen and Mayor Richard Daley predicted would shake up the industry by requiring taxis to serve areas...

"Principals for a Day" Bill Lowry of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Nancy J. Foster of LaSalle Bank N.A. took just one hour touring classrooms Tuesday...

Only a week ago, Democratic secretary of state candidate Tim McCarthy told a TV audience that the people who should be blamed for state Sen. Penny Severns' removal from the...