Maurice Possley

At 2:21 p.m. Wednesday, City Hall press secretary Alton Miller stepped to a podium at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to announce what a few people knew, what some already had proclaimed...

A federal subpoena seeking all records in the unsolved slaying of Dianne Masters, a suburban community college trustee found shot to death in 1982, was delivered Tuesday by FBI agents...

On the other end of phone lines vibrating with numbers and sob stories were spouses, buddies and brokers. Behind the grim faces, invisible calculators tallied the losses-the mutual funds, the...

Former Ald. Wallace Davis Jr. was ordered released from federal custody Tuesday after his acquittal Monday on charges that he had pistol-whipped his former secretary because she was cooperating with...

A new audit of city hiring practices found few cases of overt political influence in filling jobs but chastised officials for failing to document that they have lived up to...

Chicago personal-injury lawyer Basil Elias, whose law license was suspended earlier this year, was sentenced Monday to a year and a day in prison for failing to report $91,000 in...

His career in public office destroyed, former Ald. Clifford P. Kelley (20th) pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he sold his influence for cash, a free car and other gifts...

A former West Side precinct captain was convicted Friday in federal court on charges he extorted $2,000 from two men who sought a permit to hold a fundraising carnival for...

Two former ''miracle workers'' at Traffic Court testified in federal court Wednesday that they paid 13 judges thousands of dollars in bribes between 1969 and 1982 to fix drunken-driving cases....

A federal jury Thursday levied an $800,000 judgment against the City of Chicago and 11 police officers in a civil rights suit by a former Fenger High School senior who...