Jerry Thornton

Operations at the Downers Grove-based Sunbeam Appliance Co. will not be disrupted despite a Chapter 11 filing for reorganization by its parent corporation, officials said Sunday. On Saturday its parent...

A shift in federal law that slipped past Chicago`s black congressmen could gut the city`s ambitious program to cut in minority businesses on at least $700 million in government contracts,...

A woman who fell into the path of a speeding Amtrak train and a man who tried to save her were killed Monday at a commuter rail station in Lake...

The scene was one that Harold Washington would have loved: a city united- black, white, Hispanic-paying its last respects to the mayor. At the Daley Center Plaza Friday afternoon, people...

No matter what they didn`t have, the students of Du Sable High School had this: Harold Washington, the mayor of Chicago, was one of them. ''Nat King Cole went here,...

A pilot program that would require some Chicago Housing Authority tenants to display identification cards before they could enter their buildings was proposed Tuesday by Chicago`s new police superintendent. Supt....

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has agreed to continue funding meals served to needy children at 219 summer lunch programs operated by the city and the Chicago Housing Authority until...

Overheated air-conditioning equipment filled a United Airlines jetliner`s cockpit and cabin with smoke Wednesday night and forced the evacuation of 131 people at O`Hare International Airport. None of the 124...

A former Libertyville man who allegedly bilked customers of thousands of dollars in a home-building scheme in unincorporated Lake County, west of Gurnee, surrendered to the Lake County sheriff`s office...

About 300 West Side residents carried their protest against the proposed Chicago Bears football stadium to Mayor Harold Washington`s doorstep Sunday, but their message, broadcast through a portable loudspeaker, failed...