John Gorman

Ten soybean traders conspired to cheat customers by ''setting their own rules'' in the ''seemingly complex and startlingly dishonest world'' they created at the Chicago Board of Trade, a federal...

Nedlog Co., a tiny soft-drink company based in Wheeling, watched its business fizzle when its major customer, one of the largest food-service companies in the world, backed out of a...

Only minutes away from picking up a $74 million cocaine delivery, undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent Rich Crawford looked around and realized he`d lost his backup agents. Riding in a...

Amoco Corp. was ordered Monday to pay more than $158 million for damages in the 1978 wreck of the supertanker Amoco Cadiz off the French coastline. But the legal fight...

As the son of Cook County Circuit Judge Henry Gentile, James Gentile entered law school in hopes of forging a less-strained relationship with his father that might some day lead...

An administrative aide in the city comptroller`s office pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to taking $550 in bribes from two businesses doing business at Midway Airport. In her appearance...

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....

Former mob gambling boss Ken Eto testified Thursday that between 1980 and 1982 he paid cash bribes totaling $900 to State Rep. James DeLeo (D., Chicago) to fix parking tickets...

A street gang formed on the South Side 24 years ago grew into a major organized-crime empire that supplied narcotics throughout the U.S., committed 20 murders in Chicago and attempted...

A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday that opens the door for Kerr-McGee Corp. immediately to resume excavation of radioactive thorium waste from a Du Page County homeowner`s...