Maurice Possley

A Detroit firm whose president was indicted on fraud charges has filed suit in federal court seeking to force the City of Chicago to grant it a $525,000 contract to...

The big heat of `88 has frayed tempers in cities and rural counties alike with a withering drought and actions of an East Coast insurance company leaving thousands of Midwestern...

Two Detroit men, the last of seven suspects to be arrested on charges of conspiring to embezzle nearly $70 million from the First National Bank of Chicago, posted bond and...

An accountant accused of passing what prosecutors say was a $22,500 bribe to Chicago Transit Authority board member Howard Medley was paid more than $72,000 for CTA consulting work in...

Ernest Sawyer, top CTA executive and brother of Mayor Eugene Sawyer, along with CTA board member Howard Medley, played key roles in the awarding of a no-bid contract to a...

Brian Flisk, owner of the now-defunct Metropolitan Petroleum Co., has been cited as a hero, assailed as a slumlord and arrested for impersonating a cop. And now he is indicted...

The Chicago Transit Authority has more than doubled its payments to outside lawyers in the last four years, even as its own legal staff budget grew to an all-time high...

Four female lawyers for the Chicago Housing Authority who last year sued the agency, claiming they were the victims of sex discrimination, have been suspended pending dismissal in 10 days,...

The former director of the Chicago Park District`s marine division-a top lieutenant of former Parks Supt. Edmund Kelly-has agreed to cooperate with the U.S. attorney`s office in a continuing investigation...

Politicians maneuvering to fill the power vacuum left by Mayor Harold Washington`s death face an intricate framework of election laws and City Council rules, some of them enacted following the...