Joel Kaplan

Mayor Harold Washington made it known around the South, Southwest and North Sides Saturday that he is not just the idea man behind a push to register voters. A day...

Five persons died in Chicago area automobile accidents in the first two days of the Christmas holiday period, police said Thursday night. Chicago police reported 99 persons were injured in...

State mental health officials ''did not tell the truth'' when they said they were unaware mentally ill children eligible for special residential programs were not getting appropriate treatment, an American...

Controversial Du Page County businessman Edward Heil has agreed to sell E&E Hauling, the waste-disposal firm that holds the lucrative contract to operate the Mallard Lake garbage dump near Hanover...

Michael Raymond, the undercover informant whose July, 1984, arrest led to a major corruption investigation in Chicago, will learn Tuesday whether he is going back to prison. Raymond, who has...

The 60 corporate skyboxes lining the upper reaches of Soldier Field offer what are unquestionably the most comfortable seats in the house, even if they don`t offer the best view...

A Cook County grand jury has ordered the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners to seal all records relating to petitions seeking a referendum on the question of a nonpartisan mayoral...