John McCarron

From early success as an Alabama high school quarterback to his climb up the ladder of Chicago ward politics, Acting Mayor Eugene Sawyer has shown an uncanny ability to learn...

To say that Chicago`s new acting mayor is an enigma is an understatement. Eugene Sawyer Jr. has gone from being a protector of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the...

Ald. David Duvall Orr (49th) the man who will be interim mayor until the Chicago City Council chooses an acting mayor, is an independent-minded former history professor with a reputation...

Congress has put tax breaks for Chicago`s proposed White Sox and Bears stadiums on its deficit-reduction chopping block, though it remains to be seen whether lawmakers have the political nerve...

The proposed stadium for the Chicago Bears moved another step toward reality Tuesday when the Bears and their developer, Metropolitan Structures, announced the selection of architects to design a stadium....

The city`s seven-month-long effort to forge a compromise on the issue of lights at Wrigley Field collapsed Monday when a panel of neighborhood leaders ignored an agenda set by a...

About 300 West Side residents carried their protest against the proposed Chicago Bears football stadium to Mayor Harold Washington`s doorstep Sunday, but their message, broadcast through a portable loudspeaker, failed...

Jesse Madison, executive vice president of the Chicago Park District, said Tuesday that he is willing to negotiate with the Chicago Bears to allow the team out of its lease...

The push to build a football stadium on the West Side for the Chicago Bears moved behind closed doors Tuesday as representatives of the city, the state and the Bears...

Three Chicago neighborhoods are up against a sports stadium problem this year. But that may be the only thing they have in common. The three communities are as different as...