Maurice Possley

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Illinois Department of Public Aid must begin paying for a life-saving operation for a 6-year-old Chicago Ridge girl with cancer. As a result,...

The U.S. Court of Appeals Tuesday expressed its determination not to become too closely involved in Chicago mayoral politics. The appeals court upheld a federal district court judge in Chicago...

Chicago election officials will go forward Wednesday with a procedure aimed at verifying the validity of about 1.5 million registered voters for the Feb. 24 mayoral primary, even though they...

Patrick Tuite, rated by a Chicago legal publication survey as one of the city`s top criminal defense lawyers, went from the penthouse to the doghouse in an instant last week....

A federal grand jury, in an expansion of an investigation of corruption at City Hall, has subpoenaed several years worth of records from the Mayor`s License and Local Liquor Control...

Attorney Melvin Kanter, 76, admitted Wednesday that he spent about a dozen years handing out scores of $100 bribes to fix drunken-driving cases in Traffic Court. Kanter, known as the...

Attorney Harlan Becker bragged to undercover FBI operative Terrence Hake in the fall of 1982 that he could fix cases before Cook County Judges Raymond Sodini and Martin F. Hogan...

Chicago Aldermen Clifford P. Kelley (20th) and Wallace Davis Jr. (27th) and five other men were indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on a wide range of charges in...

The attorney for Joseph McDermott said Friday his client does not intend to be sworn in as a Cook County Circuit Court judge until the Illinois Supreme Court decides whether...

More than two months before the Nov. 4 election, the U.S. attorney`s office told the Chicago Bar Association that attorney Joseph McDermott had been identified as having paid bribes in...