Patrick Reardon

Despite the worst financial crisis of its 50-year history, the Chicago Housing Authority announced Thursday that it will spend $100,000 to keep a controversial resident-employment program operating another month. The...

In a deep cost-cutting move, the financially distressed Chicago Housing Authority announced Wednesday that more than a third of its 800 administrative employees will be laid off. And in a...

The Chicago Housing Authority`s attempts to solve its financial crisis were boosted Tuesday when federal officials said they will give the troubled agency an undetermined amount of funding and Mayor...

Despite threats by the Chicago Housing Authority of severe program cuts later this week, federal housing officials refused Monday to be rushed into considering nearly $68 million in CHA requests...

The Chicago Housing Authority revealed Thursday that it cannot pay millions of dollars in debts and, as its financial crisis escalates, Mayor Harold Washington is taking the unprecedented step of...

Ald. Wallace Davis (27th), accused of pistol-whipping his former secretary Feb. 26, proclaimed his innocence Wednesday in a telephone interview with The Tribune from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he...

Joseph Gardner, the controversial Chicago Housing Authority official whom critics have accused of using his position to do political work for Mayor Harold Washington, is taking a three-week paid vacation...

It was nearly a year ago that Renault Robinson sat down to write a memo to Mayor Harold Washington. At the time, Robinson was the chairman of the Chicago Housing...

A proposal to build a stadium for the Bears on the West Side as an alternative to the lakefront site favored by Mayor Harold Washington has become an issue in...

It was Thursday afternoon, and Mayor Harold Washington had given a well-received campaign speech to a crowd of enthusiastic students at Northeastern Illinois University on the city`s North Side. He...