Jerry Thornton

Stephen Daily attended one of the City Council hearings last week on Chicago`s frightening explosion of violence. It did not elevate his expectations. ''I don`t think anything`s going to come...

The Lakefront SRO Corp. held a ceremony Sunday to announce the renovation of a vacant Uptown building to add to the low-income housing in the area. The not-for-profit housing group,...

Sue Barry, an Air Force Reserve triage nurse who on the battlefield has responsibility to decide-sometimes with only seconds to spare-who lives and who dies, sat glued to the television...

Two of Harold Washington`s closest and biggest supporters will be running against each other in 1991. Rev. B. Herbert Martin, pastor to the late mayor, said Sunday he will oppose...

The promoters of the 30th Mid American Canoe Race hadn`t anticipated gusty winds and fall-like temperatures for their late spring competition among paddlers who attacked the Fox River Sunday. Choppy...

A Chicago police officer was shot and wounded Tuesday night when an undercover drug buy he was making on the Near West Side ''went bad'' and the drug dealers tried...

It`s the call police fear and hate the most. ''Officer shot.'' It was the call Chicago police had to respond to Sunday night at 2158 N. Nordica Ave. Patrolmen Raymond...

Two Chicago police officers were shot to death Sunday night after responding to a domestic disturbance on the Far West Side, authorities said. Police Supt. LeRoy Martin confirmed about 11:30...

An explosion ripped through a South Side resale shop Thursday evening, blowing out walls, shattering nearby windows and injuring six people, authorities said. The force of the blast at 7411...

Mayor Richard Daley said Tuesday he takes seriously a West Side alderman`s symbolic suggestion that the military be called in to fight drug traffic but said the effort would be...