PETITION FIGHTS AND NONDEBATES
With less than a month until the Feb. 24 mayoral primary election, the candidates spent last week dealing not only with the issues but with diversions such as debate disputes...
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CHILD ABUSE DEATHS UP 29%, STUDY SAYS
A nationwide study to be released Monday reports that the number of children`s deaths from abuse and neglect jumped 29 percent last year, prompting child protection advocates to fear that...
VRDOLYAK, POLICE WRANGLE OVER STATISTICS
Chicago police officials Thursday denied charges by Ald. Edward Vrdolyak (10th) that they are ''hiding'' 1986 crime statistics to protect Mayor Harold Washington and said the annual crime report may...
ROBINSON QUITS AS CHA CHIEF
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...
ROBINSON QUITS AS CHA CHIEF
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,...
O`GRADY EDGES ELROD
Republican James O`Grady claimed victory Wednesday over Cook County Sheriff Richard Elrod, riding a wave of support from white ethnic Chicago wards to the first countywide GOP triumph in 10...
ELROD, O`GRADY CAMPAIGNS HIT THE COMMUTER TRAIL
Campaign strategists for Cook County Sheriff Richard Elrod and Republican challenger James O`Grady nervously calculated votes in crucial white ethnic wards Monday while their candidates wooed commuters. Meanwhile, State Rep....
RIVALS FOR GOVERNOR CROSS PATHS, SWORDS
Gov. James Thompson was greeted on an airport runway here Monday by gubernatorial challenger Adlai Stevenson as their 11th-hour fly-around tours of the state competed for media attention and voters`...
MAYORS HAND ELROD AN ENDORSEMENT LANDSLIDE
Cook County Sheriff Richard Elrod was endorsed for re-election Sunday by 63 suburban mayors as his opponent, Republican James O`Grady, ventured onto traditional Democratic turf looking for crossover votes in...
WHERE THE CARING MEETS THE STREET
The success of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services rises and falls with its social workers, the people who bang on doors and trudge the sidewalks of cities,...