Jerry Thornton

About 250 tenants of the Rockwell Gardens public housing development gave wild applause Wednesday to Vincent Lane, the new chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, when he told them a...

Chicago Transit Authority supervisors who rode nearly 140 trains over three weekends this summer saw rampant crime but virtually no police patrols, according to internal CTA reports obtained by The...

Rev. Willie Barrow, head of Operation PUSH, said Tuesday she was voicing only her personal opinion when she spoke in favor of delaying the Chicago mayoral election from 1989 to...

Two of the politicians who would be elected mayor tried their best at the 59th annual Bud Billiken Day parade Saturday, but those along the parade route gave the loudest...

Steve Cokely, the former mayoral aide who made anti-white and anti-Semitic statements, said Monday that he was sorry Mayor Eugene Sawyer was forced to bow to pressure to fire him....

Every afternoon, Isabel Fuentes drove to McCormick Elementary School from her home in the Little Village neighborhood to pick up her son and a niece and nephew, who are pupils...

Private employers participating in the City of Chicago`s summer jobs program last year had 4,500 jobs available for disadvantaged youths, but only 2,000 were filled because of a ''discouragingly high...

Mass for Ernest J. Carroll, 78, a former chef at Comiskey Park, where he worked for more than five decades, will be said at 10 a.m. Monday in Corpus Christi...

The danger was over, she had been told, but fear lingered Sunday for Sandy McDaniel like the smoke from the still-smoldering chemical warehouse site that had gone up in flames...

Voters in the 10th Ward found their loyalties split between party and popular candidate as Democratic and Republican rallies competed for their time and support Sunday night. Former Democratic Ald....