Laurie Cohen

Carmen Cortez, a Cicero grocer, knows something about crime. Standing in the shade of a tree outside her shop, she matter-of-factly explains that illegal drugs are sold just beyond her...

Nestled on a small island deep in the North Woods and miles off the beaten path sits an elegant and secluded nine-hole golf course called the Four Seasons Club. With...

Ronald Keller already had dished out $1,400 to buy tickets for a Cicero Republican golf outing when town workers began showing up months later at his Casablanca Flea Market asking...

The two top police officials in Cicero turned in their badges and radios Saturday, one day after being suspended by the very government they had begun to investigate. Police Supt....

Questionable spending practices at Clemente High School, uncovered in 1995, continued for the next 18 months despite stricter financial oversight by school board officials, records and interviews show. Paul Vallas,...

Four years after the state granted $500,000 to a Chicago group to revitalize a blighted strip on the West Side, state officials are demanding some of the money back. Officials...

There once was a time in his star-crossed career when Vince Lane was heralded as a visionary. He was, to many, the successful businessman who took time out from his...

In the late 1980s, Richard Seed, tall and imposing, walked into a Glenview venture capitalist's office with a plan: With $35 million they could control the world's supply of fishmeal...

A day or two ago, Richard Seed was a broke, eccentric scientist winding down his career unremarkably, despite his convictions about how smart he is. On Wednesday, his face, trimmed...

A leader in the Traveling Vice Lords street gang teamed up with one of the Austin 7 police officers to rob other drug dealers of narcotics and money, according to...