Manuel Galvan

Corpses rise out of coffins, blood drips from a ghoul`s hand and smoky vapors curl around gravestones--that`s as scary as community leaders hope Halloween will be for all the little...

The Chicago Park District board Tuesday named the city`s deputy budget director as its assistant general superintendent, making him the district`s second-ranking official. Thomas Elzey, 32, who assumes his new...

Corporation Counsel Judson Miner says he will go to court next week seeking permission to sidestep city law and make public a confidential 350-page report on alleged corruption by top-ranking...

Consuelo Hernandez and Iris Gonzalez were set, on precinct registration day, to sign up voters. And sign up voters they did: six in their first 9 1/2 hours, one every...

Aldermen who have battled one another in the Chicago City Council for nearly four years found something to agree on Monday--granting themselves another perk. This perk involves parking, and aldermen...

!Que Viva la Independencia! !Que Viva Mexico! With those words, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, an aging white-haired priest, rallied his countrymen to war in the town of Dolores on Sept....

The tax on aviation fuel--the carrot Mayor Harold Washington`s administration used to muster the votes to gain committee approval of a record $79.9 million property tax increase--faces challenges from the...

Adlai Stevenson analyzed his failure to receive recent union endorsements for his gubernatorial race Friday as proof he was concerned with the public`s interests rather than special interests. Stevenson also...

Mayor Harold Washington`s supporters filed challenges Monday to more than half the 196,000 signatures on petitions that seek to place on the Nov. 4 ballot a controversial referendum asking voters...

Charging widespread fraud, Mayor Harold Washington`s supporters Monday formally challenged the validity of petitions favoring a referendum for a nonpartisan mayoral election. After a week of examining the petitions, the...