Nancy Ryan

Veteran Ald. Allan Streeter secretly tape-recorded conversations with City Hall colleagues after he was caught in Operation Silver Shovel, the federal probe of official corruption, sources said Wednesday. Streeter, dean...

The 103-year-old wood-frame house on the Northwest Side scarcely looks the way it did 95 years ago when Flora Disney gave birth to entertainment icon Walt Disney. White vinyl siding...

Chicago's free-wheeling, strong-shouldered personality created a marvelous environment in which to experiment with architecture, but a difficult one in which to protect it. It could become even harder after Wednesday....

The Grant Park Concerts Society, the fundraising arm of the Grant Park Symphony summer music festival since 1977, was notified by the Chicago Park District Thursday that its services are...

State Sen. Alice Palmer, a respected South Side lawmaker, concluded an embarrassing fall and early winter Wednesday by withdrawing her re-election bid. Palmer's troubles started Nov. 28, when she placed...

If Mayor Richard Daley were looking for a silver lining in the political wreckage of Operation Silver Shovel, it might be this: His tight grip on the City Council should...

The government lifted the veil on Operation Silver Shovel on Wednesday, detailing a sweeping 3 1/2-year sting greased with $150,000 in payoffs and bolstered by 1,100 taped conversations between public...

The wide-ranging targets of the federal corruption investigation known as Operation Silver Shovel include at least eight former or current aldermen, other city and suburban officials, mobsters and union officials,...

At least eight public officials have been targeted in a sweeping federal probe of corruption in which an undercover "mole" recorded conversations about a wide range of alleged wrongdoing, from...

A teenager from the neighborhood near the Cabrini-Green public housing development has been charged with the murder of Ethan Kane, a Loyola University student who befriended children from the Cabrini...