Mike Dorning

Federal and state regulators on Thursday said that a Chicago mortgage broker and an Ohio-based lender jointly preyed on low-income and elderly homeowners by misrepresenting fees and terms of home...

In another of a recent string of setbacks to the proposed expansion of O'Hare International Airport, Chicago's efforts to purchase suburban property remain frozen after a DuPage County judge on...

A day after the U.S. House handed Mayor Richard Daley a setback by rejecting legislation critical to the expansion of O'Hare International Airport, his allies in Congress began mapping out...

The leader of a Chicago-area Islamic charity gave money and support to Osama bin Laden and other top terrorists for years, including one reputed Al Qaeda lieutenant who tried to...

A former top aide to Gov. George Ryan led a political operation on Ryan's behalf that engaged in pervasive fraud for seven years, diverting state employees to work on numerous...

Political campaigns tend to start and end with smiles and hearty proffers of goodwill, but sandwiched between are the charges and countercharges of candidates who call their opponents sniveling connivers....

With the pressure rising in a tight, three-way Democratic governor's race, Rod Blagojevich on Sunday ridiculed one of his opponents as an arrogant "Buddha" and "sultan," while saying the other...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is expected to announce Friday it will close its Lakeside hospital to inpatients, turning the downtown facility into an outpatient clinic and leaving only one...

Seizing on the licenses-for-bribes scandal that funneled tainted cash into Gov. George Ryan's campaign for governor, the six candidates vying to replace him have elevated ethics and campaign finance reform...

As a teacher shortage looms and the achievement gap widens between wealthy and poor school districts, no issue confronting candidates for governor draws more sustained rhetoric or more varied responses...