Laurie Cohen

State Rep. Rod Blagojevich--affable, good-looking and with a legislative record of concern for social issues--had a lot going for him last fall when he set out to win a key...

Twenty-two abortion protesters blocking the doors of a Downers Grove health clinic were arrested early Thursday and carted away in a commuter shuttle bus to the DuPage County jail. The...

On a clipboard on a card table held together with tape, set on the grass behind the basketball courts at Wicker Park, civil disobedience and political protest begin. Here, the...

A prominent trial attorney who is being sued on charges of molesting his niece has been accused of sexual misconduct by a second woman, one of the niece's lawyers said...

While the focus Tuesday night was on the downfall of U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds, his constituents couldn't help but look back sadly at the congressman's impressive rise from the fields...

An attorney who heads the NAACP's Chicago Southside branch has been barred from practicing law for at least six months for neglecting clients and failing to repay $9,960 in fees...

A former junior partner at a prestigious Chicago law firm has denied overbilling clients by more than $1.3 million, asserting that it was standard procedure at the firm to charge...

Just two weeks ago, few people outside of California had ever heard of Robert Citron. But that was before Orange County became the largest municipal government in history to go...

Commodity industry regulators have forced a Chicago brokerage firm with a checkered past to shed its customer accounts after its capital sank below minimum requirements and questions persisted about its...

Former firefighter Dennis Bell had no doubt about what he wanted to do with his life after a surgeon amputated his left leg below the knee in 1991: Go back...