Manuel Galvan

Chicago will receive $10 million more in tax revenue this year than expected, acting revenue director Charles Sawyer estimates. The shift from a projected revenue of $581 million, made before...

Mayor Harold Washington unveiled Chicago`s first $2 billion budget Thursday, calling for several tax reforms and pledging to support a variety of social programs. The proposed 1986 budget recommends a...

A Cook County grand jury conducting a wide-ranging investigation of the city`s purchasing practices has subpoenaed two years` worth of city records and several Washington administration supporters, including businessman Clarence...

No Chicago firefighters will be hired until all 21,522 candidates who passed a written exam are given physical tests, the city`s personnel commissioner said Thursday. Aldermen and firefighter candidates have...

As many as 70 Chicago firefighters are being investigated for allegedly listing a Southeast Side trailer park as their address but not living there, the executive director of the city`s...

A Northwest Side alderman warned Wednesday that he will continue his opposition to plans by Greyhound Corp. to build a new bus terminal at Addison Street and the Kennedy Expressway....

When Mayor Harold Washington first met William Ware, he knew within five minutes that he would hire him. ''I thought he was just that good--an organized, disciplined, innovative man who...

To his neighbors at Cabrini-Green, Melvin Anderson was the quiet family man who stayed out of trouble and liked to tinker with cars. Anderson, 24, a streetwise father of three,...

''Celebrate in Chicago,'' the summerlong party of lakefront and neighborhood festivals, kicked off Sunday with a preview bash at McCormick Place. There were jazz, blues, folk music, ribs, pizza and...

Chicago Fire Commissioner Louis Galante contended Monday that the city has enough ambulances and said examples of slow response time cited by the firefighters union were caused by human error....