John McCarron

Meanwhile, on the OTHER side of town, baseball goes on. As the nights grow cool and the season short, the faithful still gather at their beloved-but-doomed Comiskey Park-27 games south...

The final days have arrived on Block 37, a doomed piece of yesterday`s Loop where the merchandise is half-priced and the shoppers half-crazed. Three years from now, long after the...

''Rent Me, I`m Ready.'' ''Advertise Here.'' ''Need Printing Fast? Insty Prints!'' There are 10 ad benches screaming for attention at the intersection of Touhy and Overhill Avenues, an otherwise quiet...

Gov. James Thompson said Thursday that he and Mayor Eugene Sawyer are willing to let Chicago`s sports moguls decide what facilities should be located on the West Side. But at...

Urban renewal has a bad reputation in Chicago. So bad, in fact, that it`s almost impossible to do anymore. Let anyone suggest that land be cleared for a stadium or...

Nancy Jefferson likes to call herself a ''land-grabber.'' The expression is a favorite taunt used by community organizers against those who would try to redevelop their neighborhoods. But while other...

Illinois Atty. Gen. Neil Hartigan is expected to file a court case Thursday charging that as many as 12 contractors falsified documents and submitted phony records that accounted for part...

Developers seeking to build a $500 million twin-tower office skyscraper on the Loop property now occupied by the Greyhound Bus terminal have agreed to buy the adjacent Harris and Selwyn...

Mayor Eugene Sawyer`s administration announced Monday it will press for immediate repeal of the city`s ban on night games at Wrigley Field rather than await the outcome of a March...

The Chicago Cubs will add at least 400 parking spaces and expand Wrigley Field by no more than 3,000 seats under a tentative agreement between team executives and city officials...