Ray Gibson

At a raucous event that was part news conference, part political theater, Ald. Arenda Troutman (20th) on Tuesday refused to say whether she's had a personal relationship with an alleged...

Chicago officials on Friday made more changes in the city's scandal-plagued Hired Truck Program and temporarily suspended from the program two firms owned by a longtime supporter of Mayor Richard...

Two former Will County business executives, sentenced to federal prison last month for the multimillion-dollar collapse of a grain elevator company, were charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday with 49...

More than a dozen companies that formerly participated in the scandal-plagued city Hired Truck Program didn't have the authority from the Illinois Commerce Commission to operate in the state, records...

Another key member of former Gov. George Ryan's kitchen cabinet was indicted Wednesday, hit by federal perjury charges for allegedly lying to a grand jury about pocketing a $50,000 lobbying...

Scott Fawell broke down and cried as he apologized to his family for soiling their political tradition, but moments after he was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison,...

A Cook County judge on Thursday refused to return property seized from the E2 nightclub where 21 patrons died in a stampede after city lawyers said investigators were not finished...

In a landmark verdict, a federal jury Wednesday convicted former Gov. George Ryan's closest political confidant and Ryan's campaign fund in a wide-ranging corruption scheme that diverted government resources for...

Parking can be tough in the congested Pilsen neighborhood, but it got even tougher for workers and patrons at the Rudy Lozano Branch Library after City Hall sold the library's...