Ray Gibson

With four-term Republican Gov. James Thompson stepping down, the campaign to elect his successor is fast totaling up as the most expensive statewide race in Illinois history, campaign finance reports...

A woman accused of operating a nationwide prostitution ring was surreptitiously videotaped last September when she met with a reputed organized crime figure and a key government informant in the...

One of the city`s top bankruptcy attorneys is under investigation by the U.S. attorney`s office for misuse of money held in a bankruptcy case escrow account, government sources said Thursday....

Chicago film producer C. Jere Albright lived in a high-rolling world where million-dollar movie deals were sometimes financed with phony pledges of credit from foreign investors, according to court records....

Prison officials described Monday the escape of six inmates from a Joliet maximum security prison as a ''serious breach in security'' and launched an investigation why jail guards failed to...

Some public funds from a $300,000 reform program designed to turn out the vote for Chicago school council elections were used to pay suspected ghost canvassers, while time sheets of...

Two undercover FBI agents posing as feuding business partners went to court on a phony case as part of an investigation of suspected corruption by politicians and Cook County judges,...

Ted Kimbrough, the man hired to take over as superintendent of Chicago`s troubled public schools next year, amassed a portfolio of real estate and private business holdings during his many...

A street gang formed on the South Side 24 years ago grew into a major organized-crime empire that supplied narcotics throughout the U.S., committed 20 murders in Chicago and attempted...

Chicago`s mayoral candidates spent at least $12.6 million and were left with more than $650,000 in debts in a record-setting campaign spending spree that left even Mayor Richard Daley`s coffers...