Robert Becker

President-elect Barack Obama and Democrats in the U.S. Senate ratcheted up pressure on disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich to resign Wednesday while federal agents fanned out to investigate the details of...

Angered by Tribune editorials, Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to get members of the paper's editorial board fired, promising in exchange to support lucrative state financial assistance in the sale of...

Chicago aldermen wield near-absolute power over development in their wards, but most insist they get neighborhood input from community groups or handpicked advisory panels before approving or rejecting projects. What...

John Stroger, who rose through the ranks of local Democratic politics from assistant precinct captain to powerful ward boss to become the first African-American elected Cook County Board president, died...

An unprecedented wave of union support helped challengers beat three incumbent aldermen backed by Mayor Richard Daley and several of the mayor's allies were locked in tight contests late Tuesday....

Todd Stroger attended his father's university. He followed his father into politics. He even lives in his father's old home on South Blackstone Avenue. Now he wants his father's old...

When a former top aide to Mayor Richard Daley quit last summer amid a federal probe into city hiring practices, he quickly landed consulting work at one of the nation's...

Democratic precinct captain Mike Bawiec was walking door to door in the Northwest Side's 45th Ward on Saturday, carrying sample ballots of preferred candidates, when he arrived at the home...

A major corporation and two of its employees were indicted in a fraud scheme to win a $49 million Cook County contract, a deal that also involved bribery of a...