Liz Sly

About 4,000 people gathered outside City Hall Tuesday evening in a peaceful protest against the possible election of Ald. Eugene Sawyer (6th) as acting mayor to succeed Harold Washington. Inside,...

Four jurors hearing the federal conspiracy trial of El Rukn street gang members said Tuesday that they had received threatening phone calls at their homes Monday night. The judge hearing...

As both sides in the school strike remained pessimistic Saturday about opening classes by Monday, the Chicago Board of Education-selectively and gradually-planned on opening schools for several other activities. First...

Police Thursday sought as many as ''15 or 20'' assailants who pummeled and kicked to death a Blue Island man after dragging him from his car on a West Side...

A police officer was killed and three other officers were injured Friday night in an accident involving a squad car and another vehicle in the 1500 block of South Ashland...

Mayor Harold Washington and officials of the Greater State Street Council dined in City Hall Thursday, celebrating plans for a $35 million, five-year revitalization of the State Street Mall and...

Mop in hand and eyes to the sky, weary Chicago-area homeowners continued to clean up--and total up--the damage Sunday from the flooding that resulted from last week`s record rainfall and...

One man drowned, another was presumed dead and a teenage scuba diver was hospitalized in serious condition as the result of unrelated incidents on Lake Michigan Sunday. Anthony Smith, 21,...

Hours after being stabbed by an intruder, the pastor of small Roman Catholic parish on the Far South Side gamely carried out his Sunday routine. Police said the intruder climbed...

Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D., Del.), one of a field of presidential hopefuls trying to build momentum after former Sen. Gary Hart`s downfall, told the Chicago Council of Lawyers...