R.C. Longworth

The leaders of the industrialized nations Sunday praised economic policies espoused by President Reagan for keeping the world economy healthy, but they rejected his proposals to end farm-trade subsidies. Meeting...

The primary emotion for major investors in the stock market this week is the pain that always accompanies separation from large sums of money. For the rest of us, the...

Paul Volcker, a nominal Democrat, frequently frustrated the Reagan White House by rebuffing whatever monetary sleight-of-hand the President`s men dreamed up. The suspicion in Washington is that Alan Greenspan, the...

In the white birch forests near this Siberian city, a special school is grooming the children who will carry the Soviet Union`s reputation for mathematics and physics into the 21st...

The Chicago area`s steel companies, until recently written off as rusted relics of the past, are reviving themselves into a leaner, tougher industry that is a good bet to survive...

Mayor Harold Washington has told a small group of business leaders that he does not support their quiet effort to revive the 1992 World`s Fair, saying the exposition would detract...

Former President Richard Nixon, in a rare Chicago appearance before 540 of the city`s leaders, predicted Tuesday night that the Geneva summit next month could lay the groundwork for an...

A new plan to pay off debts from the 1992 World`s Fair with Chicago property taxes could cost the city nearly half a billion dollars, City Hall financial experts say....

Aided by a thick layer of flattery, the Washington administration reached agreement Thursday with the owners of the Playskool toy factory over the scheduled closing of the West Side plant....