R. Bruce Dold

A stunning decision Sunday by Cook County Assessor Thomas Hynes to drop out of the race for mayor guaranteed a frenzied, final day of campaigning for Mayor Harold Washington and...

Aides to County Assessor Thomas Hynes, who have blamed Mayor Harold Washington for dividing the city and Ald. Edward Vrdolyak (10th) for dividing the anti-Washington vote, blamed the Chicago news...

The mayoral candidates sought to put behind them the nastiest week of the election campaign Saturday, but the wife of Ald. Edward Vrdolyak (10th) would have none of it. Denise...

Ald. Edward Vrdolyak (10th) renewed a call Friday for Cook County Assessor Thomas Hynes to drop out of the race for mayor, insisting that Hynes ''cannot wash his hands'' of...

Two Chicago police officers who were assigned as bodyguards to Ald. Edward R. Vrdolyak (10th) when he allegedly met with an organized crime kingpin said Thursday that the alderman was...

Edward R. Vrdolyak, his eyes brimming with tears, heatedly denied Thursday that he had met with a top Chicago hoodlum and offered to quit the race for mayor if his...

Facing a dismal showing in a Tribune poll and on the defensive because he will not back up a statement that Ald. Edward Vrdolyak (10th) met with a Chicago mob...

The mayoral election campaign erupted Monday into charges by Cook County Assessor Thomas Hynes that Ald. Edward Vrdolyak (10th) met secretly with a Chicago mob chieftain and cries by Vrdolyak...

Chicagoans reveled Tuesday in the annual wearin` of the green as St. Patrick`s Day transformed the city from Beirut on the Lake to Dublin on Dearborn Street. ''I ordered this...

Cook County Assessor Thomas Hynes basked in the benefits of the home-field advantage Sunday while Ald. Edward Vrdolyak (10th), a rival mayoral candidate, fielded cheers mixed with jeers at a...