Melita M. Garza

It was on a sweltering Florida afternoon, on a desolate stretch of the highway called Alligator Alley, that 8-year-old Kristy Valdes had to climb over her great-grandmother's dead body. The...

As around-the-clock talks continued in St. Louis between Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. and the union representing 8,000 workers at nine plants, a union official in Pittsburgh said late Friday that there had...

In a move to blunt consumer ire over a massive tire recall, Ford Motor Co. said Monday it will halt production at three truck plants for two weeks and divert...

Dynegy Inc., the Texas energy company that owns Illinois Power, is moving aggressively into a business that doesn't yet exist: trading "broadband width" to provide ultrafast data connections to local...

A Near North Side neighborhood group on Saturday unveiled a plan to spare three historical buildings threatened by the construction of a 16-story luxury residential complex. The Washington Square Association...

Under new powers won from the federal government, the Chicago Housing Authority is preparing to issue $600 million in bonds to finance its sweeping remake of public housing in Chicago,...

Among the four U.S. cities that were top recipients of special federal public housing redevelopment funds, only Chicago has not built any new units with the money in the last...

Residents of the Robert Taylor Homes on Friday accused the Chicago Police Department of laxity in patrolling their development, leading to a crime surge in the three weeks since the...

An ugly rift between the city and the federal government over the city's takeover of the Chicago Housing Authority broke wide open Thursday when an angry Mayor Richard Daley criticized...

University of Illinois at Chicago students got an early start to the weekend Friday when a power outage plunged the Near West Side campus into near-darkness for three hours, forcing...