Patrick Reardon

Renault Robinson, the embattled chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, resigned Friday after more than three stormy years as head of the nation`s second-largest public housing authority. Robinson`s resignation, announced...

Renault Robinson, the embattled chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, resigned Friday after more than three stormy years as head of the nation`s second largest public housing authority. Robinson`s resignation,...

Three and a half years ago, Chicago Housing Authority residents were toasting the dawning of ''a new day.'' Harold Washington had been elected Chicago`s first black mayor, and his victory...

Four years ago, Martha Weddington moved her family out of the Cabrini-Green housing project after her 16-year-old daughter, Katherine, was shot in the leg by gang members and a friend...

Court-ordered scattered-site public housing has been one of the most divisive issues in Chicago`s history. For 17 years, it has heightened racial tensions, pitted neighborhood against neighborhood and fueled white...

No one has watched the upscale development closing in around Cabrini-Green with a more careful eye than the people who live in the public housing project. With every year, they...

The federal government, charging Leon Finney Jr. and The Woodlawn Organization (TWO) with ''gross mismanagement,'' is seeking to take possession of Woodlawn Gardens, a 504-unit private housing development that is...

Boat operators may be licensed and night boating possibly banned at the Chain O` Lakes resort area following the deaths of five people Monday in a boating accident on Fox...

Officials at Chicago-area lending institutions disputed Monday a study released by the Woodstock Institute that indicated residential lending practices in the metropolitan area favor the suburbs and shortchange most city...

The Chicago Fire Fighters Union will appeal a ruling Wednesday by the Illinois Appellate Court that gives the families of three children and three adults who were killed in fires...