R. Bruce Dold

The Illinois Supreme Court will announce its long-awaited decision Monday on whether a special mayoral election will be held in Chicago in 1989, or whether Mayor Eugene Sawyer can serve...

Welcome to Cook County ''GOP Jeopardy,'' where the candidates provide more questions than answers in the pursuit of a four-year pass to an office on Clark Street. The first answer:...

Now`s the time to make reservations for an Illinois congressional seat in the 1990s. Like an airplane at the Christmas rush, almost all the good seats are filled for the...

Commonwealth Edison restored power Thursday to 98 industrial firms that were cut off a day earlier, although demand for electricity hit the second highest total in the utility`s history as...

Gov. James Thompson handed Chicago homeowners a controversial and potentially powerful weapon against panic peddlers by signing into law Wednesday the long-debated legislation creating a home equity insurance program. Neighborhood...

Mayor Eugene Sawyer said Sunday night that he is virtually certain to veto the controversial home equity insurance ordinance approved last week by the Chicago City Council. ''My sense right...

Mayor Eugene Sawyer, buffeted by increasingly angry demands to decide the fate of an aide who has rocked his administration with racist remarks, broke promises to resolve the matter Wednesday,...

Rev. B. Herbert Martin suggested three candidates for replacing him as Chicago Housing Authority board chairman when he confirmed Monday that he was leaving to be executive director of the...

Brian Flisk, owner of the now-defunct Metropolitan Petroleum Co., has been cited as a hero, assailed as a slumlord and arrested for impersonating a cop. And now he is indicted...

Eighteen Chicago aldermen huddled privately at a Northwest Side restaurant Wednesday morning in a strategy session to reorganize the City Council, but they failed to reach agreement on whether to...