Laurie Goering

Property owners on the North and Northwest Sides of Chicago will find lower 1987 tax bills in their mailboxes starting this week, but most South Side, Southwest Side and suburban...

Blazing hot weather, with temperatures in the high 90s, continued to roast the Chicago area Saturday, but the high ozone levels that had blanketed the city with smog for a...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected a final bid by a group of white applicants to show they were denied jobs as Chicago firefighters because of reverse racial discrimination. Without...

University of Illinois trustees are expected this week to adopt a systemwide policy prohibiting discrimination against gay and lesbian students, employees and faculty members. ''It`s in everyone`s best interest,'' said...

With less than a hour before the polls closed Tuesday, Mayor Harold Washington still was campaigning. ''You`ve got about 55 minutes to vote. Go straight to the polling place,'' the...

The mayoral candidates sought to put behind them the nastiest week of the election campaign Saturday, but the wife of Ald. Edward Vrdolyak (10th) would have none of it. Denise...

Aiming for a higher road after days of personal attacks and counterattacks, the candidates for Chicago mayor attempted to focus on tough issues Tuesday, with the Republican candidate calling for...

A Rolling Meadows man held his estranged wife at gunpoint for four hours in a Prospect Heights store Sunday before surrendering to police, authorities said. Several shots were fired, but...

John Stahl`s bad day started Sunday when he missed his flight at O`Hare International Airport. It got worse when a man stole his wallet after he tried to do the...

Mayor Harold Washington said Friday that his administration will go to court, if necessary, to oppose Commonwealth Edison Co.`s latest rate increase request, and he called upon Chicago`s three other...