Robert Becker

More than many of his predecessors, Mayor Richard Daley has targeted negligent landlords, launching half a dozen new programs penalizing these owners and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars more...

Arnold Mireles and Roel Salinas may have lived in the same neighborhood, but they walked on different sides of the street. For years in South Chicago, Arnold Mireles' good intentions...

In the late 1980s, Richard Seed, tall and imposing, walked into a Glenview venture capitalist's office with a plan: With $35 million they could control the world's supply of fishmeal...

In an apparently unprecedented move, the Museum of Contemporary Art has filed a lawsuit against one of its past chairmen for failure to honor a $5 million fundraising pledge. The...

Saying the city has broad authority when it comes to promotions, a Cook County Circuit Court judge on Monday said a Chicago Police Department sergeants exam can go forward as...

An Arlington Heights woman, who is living with a portion of a catheter embedded in her heart, was awarded $3.5 million Tuesday by a Cook County jury. The jury awarded...

A wide-open Republican primary campaign for the legislative seat held for decades by staunch conservative Bernard Pedersen is likely if state Rep. Robert Bergman carries out his surprise promise to...

Former Chicago Police Supt. LeRoy Martin announced Monday he was switching political parties and would run as a Republican candidate for Cook County sheriff. Asked why he was running as...

For years, local governments and school districts across Cook County fed their needs with the funding equivalent of an all-you-can-eat buffet: property taxes. But the days of double-digit increases in...

After years of warning suburban communities about handing out "alternative tickets" to motorists, the state on Wednesday issued a citation of its own. Illinois Secretary of State George Ryan filed...