Maurice Possley

Nearly a dozen Cook County Circuit Court personnel are cooperating with prosecutors in the Operation Greylord cases against a judge and a former judge who were among the 22 people...

The planned $27 million toxic-waste clean-up of Waukegan Harbor suffered a major setback Tuesday when a federal appeals court in Chicago ruled that the federal Environmental Protection Agency has no...

Circuit Court Judge Richard F. LeFevour was on top of the judicial heap in Chicago--reaping the rewards of hard work and political allegiance and all the trappings accompanying the position....

In September, 1981, Chicago police officer Arthur McCauslin agreed to take a check--instead of cash--from a parking-ticket scofflaw and unwittingly revealed a paper trail that led to the chambers of...

A federal judge has ordered what may be the most extensive security ever for the July 1 trial of four suspected members of a Puerto Rican terrorist group who are...

Cook County Circuit Judge Richard F. LeFevour`s trial on corruption charges began Monday with a confrontation involving the defendant and U.S. District Judge Charles R. Norgle over a ruling barring...

Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago and 13 other banks stand to collect nearly $514 million in principal and interest from energy baron John R. Stanley as...

Stored in a back room at the Art Institute of Chicago are three curious-looking horned masks made of dried gourds that hold a key to the continued survival of the...