R. Bruce Dold

A federal district court judge Wednesday subpoenaed the records of Chicago Board of Election Commissioners after hearing testimony that the board has sent out at least three versions of absentee...

The leader of a statewide citizens group charged Tuesday that the insurance industry has ''manufactured'' the liability insurance crisis that has rocked Illinois and other states. The Illinois Public Action...

Two top Democratic Party leaders face challenges to their political power in the March 18 elections in races that traditionally draw scant attention yet play a key role in the...

A Southwest Side businessman whose decision to run for Cook County clerk threw a wild card into the race has donated thousands of dollars to community groups while fostering a...

Republican U.S. Senate hopeful George Ranney charged Thursday that Sen. Alan Dixon (D., Ill.) failed to attend a single Senate Agriculture Committee hearing over a two-year period. Although Dixon aides...

He stayed there for at least three weeks, and often threw glue-sniffing parties for his friends, trial testimony later showed. For nearly six weeks that summer, authorities put Cruz up...

The weary investigators assigned to crack the mystery of who killed 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico were sitting in makeshift offices on the third floor of the Du Page County government complex....

Brown high-topped shoes with steel braces rest on a dresser each night in Jeffrey Winks` bedroom, the room that the 4-year-old afflicted with cerebral palsy shares with Caroline, Michael and...

Atty. Gen. Neil Hartigan`s decision to drop his campaign for governor set up a rapid series of moves Monday that provided Illinois Democrats with the unexpected opportunity for a unified...

The Illinois Senate`s rejection last week of a proposal that Arlington Park Race Track said it needed to rebuild the track has local officials posing a question: If a Chrysler-Mitsubishi...