Joel Kaplan

On a beautiful spring day, one fringe group yelled at another fringe group for several hours Saturday in Wheaton, costing DuPage County taxpayers about $35,000. A few hours later, Rolling...

Chicago businessman Alphonse ''Scarface'' Capone, 32, was acquitted Monday on federal charges that he evaded paying taxes on nearly $1 million in income over six years. A jury of 16...

When they were shot to death two months ago last Thursday, Richard and Nancy Langert were described by friends and relatives as an All-American couple who had the perfect marriage....

In the search for a motive in the slaying of Winnetka residents Nancy and Richard Langert, investigators this week began focusing on the political activities of Nancy`s older sister, Jeanne,...

Who is more important in the population estimate of the United States: an impoverished urban family in a subdivided row house, or a wealthy businessman living on 2 acres in...

Despite an extensive effort to reach the hard-to-count and the most ambitious attempt ever to enumerate the homeless, the 1990 U.S. census will miss millions of Americans, most of them...

Amid a loud and often critical reaction to his proposal for a third airport, Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday tried to appease disgruntled Southeast Side residents concerned about their property...

State Rep. James DeLeo (D-Chicago) was sentenced to one year of unsupervised probation Friday for claiming $1,700 in deductions he was not entitled to on his 1982 tax return. U.S....

Upwards of 8,000 Cub fans descended on Daley Plaza Wednesday hoping to finally bury the nightmare of 1969 and the shattered dreams of 1984. They came to celebrate this year`s...

As his own campaign commercials aptly observed, Richard M. Daley will never rank as a great orator. Nothing he said or did in his hugely successful run for mayor earlier...