John Chase is deputy metro editor for local government and politics. He rejoined the Tribune in 2022 after having worked at the Better Government Association, where he was an editor on the 2021 Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Failures Before the Fires.” He worked at the Tribune from 1998 until 2016 covering Illinois and Chicago politics and government.
Working as a waiter at an Evanston retirement home last summer, Kevin Richards jogged the 15 blocks to work from his home on the other side of town rather than...
A day after being shot in the leg while waiting for a Chicago Transit Authority train, Clarence Hoskins--a bullet still lodged under his skin--limped around his South Side apartment Sunday...
Six members of a suspected Colombian jewel-theft ring were being questioned Friday as suspects in the death last week of a Wheeling jewelry dealer who was shot in front of...
The building inspectors found no problems. So last week, it seemed all was going well for the Trinity Church of the Nazarene in Naperville, whose leaders planned to open a...
A federal bankruptcy judge on Monday postponed until at least next week a decision on the future of the shuttered Maryknoll Seminary in Glen Ellyn. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Ronald...
Reviving a deal once described as dead, a volunteer agency involved in running the historic Peabody Mansion in Oak Brook has signed an agreement with the DuPage County Forest Preserve...
It already has been slated to be the future home of a large subdivision on the northeast side of Aurora, but neighbors of 126 acres filled with thousands of trees...
Tree-cutting crews and bulldozers on Thursday continued clearing more than 100 acres of open space in Aurora for a proposed residential development as the DuPage County Forest Preserve Commission decided...
More than 600 friends and relatives gathered at a west suburban church this morning to remember Harry Bull, a 39-year-old paper company executive from Hinsdale, and his two young daughters....
In the lobby of the Virginia Apartments in the Ravenswood community, seven senior citizens sat in a circle Saturday afternoon, staring up at the ceiling fan and light fixture. Twenty-four...