Ray Gibson

A newly formed Chicago ethics board ruled Thursday that Mayor Harold Washington`s chief of staff, Ernest Barefield, and his wife can accept a free trip from American Airlines from Chicago...

Though family members on both sides were carefully looked after, few received more than figurehead responsibility. It was by using his most trusted lieutenants, the men who referred to themselves...

The corner of Manhattan`s Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, bounded by Bergdorf Goodman, Tiffany`s and the ornate 1920s Crown Building, the first home of the Museum of Modern Art, is...

American companies apparently were not the only ones required to kick back. The Marcos documents in Hawaii refer to similar commissions from at least five Japanese corporations. In addition to...

Tuesday night, 10 businessmen here paid $5,000 each to meet Mayor Harold Washington at a cocktail party in the plush Park Avenue high-rise apartment of an investment banker. Later in...

Corporation Counsel James Montgomery removed himself Wednesday from any official role in the city`s internal investigation of the events surrounding the firing of a deputy revenue director who received a...

Federal prosecutors plan to seek the records of Mayor Harold Washington`s principal campaign fund as part of the investigation into suspected corruption in city government, two fund officials said Tuesday....

A part-time Cook County sheriff`s deputy, under investigation for allegedly funneling money to 1st Ward Democratic coffers in return for favors, pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally possessing two pistols and...

In the nearly two years that he moved along the edges of power in Chicago, Michael Raymond was a man with gourmet tastes and a seemingly bottomless expense account. He...

In the nearly two years he moved along the edges of power in Chicago, Michael Raymond was a man with gourmet tastes and a seemingly bottomless expense account. He was...