John McCarron

A Chicago City Council committee Thursday approved a revision of the city`s landmark ordinance, enabling property owners to recover losses resulting from landmark designation, as well as expanding protection for...

A proposal to build a stadium for the Bears on the West Side as an alternative to the lakefront site favored by Mayor Harold Washington has become an issue in...

Friends of the Parks, a not-for-profit watchdog group, will ask the Chicago Park District board Monday to impose an immediate freeze on the hiring of top management personnel in an...

A Pennsylvania-based real estate developer has purchased the Greyhound Bus terminal at Clark and Lake Streets in what could prove a significant step for the city`s North Loop project. City...

Rather than defy Mayor Harold Washington, who is supporting a new lakefront football stadium for the Chicago Bears, some Chicago Park District officials are compiling a series of features they...

A new South Side stadium for the White Sox was put on hold Thursday as legislative leaders and Gov. James Thompson met behind closed doors for nearly four hours, fashioning...

Mayor Harold Washington expressed confidence Tuesday that the Chicago White Sox will remain in Chicago as top city and state leaders met in Springfield in hopes of hammering out a...

Democratic lawmakers want more than $20 million in new taxes for Chicago and Cook County before they will support horse-racing legislation considered critical to the rebuilding of Arlington Park Racetrack...

Although work has yet to begin on the Du Page Toll Road, lawyers and bond brokers with ties to Gov. James Thompson already are in line to collect at least...

If it were up to the National Park Service, Chicago`s two baseball parks would join such illustrious edifices as the Los Angeles Coliseum and the Empire State Building on the...