Liz Sly

Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. extricated itself from a potentially embarrassing lawsuit Tuesday and in the process acquired a respected commodity brokerage firm from its adversary, Staley Continental Inc. Drexel, which...

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Springfield, Mo., is soliciting partners in a bid for Zenith Electronics Corp.`s troubled television business, union officials said Wednesday. Zenith has a large...

Sundstrand Corp., the Rockford-based aerospace contractor, expects to face criminal charges on military contracts and is negotiating to reduce what could become the largest-ever military overbilling settlement with the government....

Gov. James Thompson planned to meet Friday with representatives of a coalition that is threatening to shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway unless minorities get a greater share of the...

Gov. James Thompson pledged Thursday to try to increase participation by black companies in the $210 million Dan Ryan Expressway rehabilitation project but said that federal laws that lump women...

A baby girl died and her 4-year-old brother was seriously injured Tuesday in a fire that swept through their Far South Side apartment minutes after their mother`s boyfriend stepped outside...

One weatherman called it the Siberian Express. Another described it as a ''jet stream coming down all the way from north of the Arctic Circle.'' Either way, below-zero temperatures and...

An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed his estranged wife Friday in a Walgreen`s drugstore on the South Side, then turned the gun on himself and fired, police said....

Two people were killed, 12 injured and nearly 40 left homeless Friday in four Chicago fires. A fire in a two-story building at 6829 S. Emerald Ave., which killed two...

The body of a 25-year-old woman last seen by her family five days ago was found Thursday morning alongside railroad tracks near Hubbard Street and Racine Avenue. Police said family...