John McCarron

Which of the proposed income tax cuts do you like best? President Clinton's, with its $500 tax credit for possession of a child and even more generous ($1,500) credit for...

Will life in America's big cities get better once the federal government gives homebuyers a $200 break on closing costs if they finance their house with a federally insured mortgage?...

She's headed back East, that lady in the red beret, but not before making Chicago a livelier place to live. A fairer one, too. Elizabeth "Liz" Russell Hollander, the city...

Is all this peace and prosperity starting to make you nervous? Or am I the only one beginning to get uneasy, what with the Dow running above 7700, the unemployment...

So you think you have problems? I did too, until I spent a morning last week touring the city with Joseph Shuldiner, executive director of the Chicago Housing Authority. Suddenly...

Urban renewal is not criminal activity. The average citizen might be forgiven for thinking otherwise, what with so many news accounts of "clout-heavy" developers and their "well-connected" lawyers cutting "sweetheart...

Every sailor on board knew and feared the span wire. It's one of two things on a fleet oiler that can kill you in the blink of an eye. (The...

One of the things they teach in journalism school, or used to, is never to discount the obvious. Every so often that which is apparent masks a hidden, horrible truth....

And so, after months of sob stories and platitudes, of blue-ribbon studies and gold-plated declarations, the question of education funding reform comes down to this: Will the Illinois General Assembly...

There are metal plaques bolted to the siderails of the old steel bridges over the North Shore Sanitary Channel in Evanston and Wilmette. I cross those bridges a lot because...