Robert Davis

Chicago & North Western commuters escaped a rush-hour strike Thursday morning after a frenetic day of activity on Wednesday marked by the railroad`s agreement to delay for nine hours the...

Two women and three children were found dead early Wednesday in a burning Southwest Side bungalow, and police said all five appeared to have been slain. ''It appears all five...

Home-equity insurance, gay rights and controversial appointments to the Chicago Housing Authority board filled the headlines last week, but to thousands of Chicago area teenagers, they were just words for...

Continuing delays and indecision in development of Navy Pier have forced officials of the Chicago Maritime Society to abandon plans to build a museum on the pier. They will move...

A group of clergymen led by the head of Operation PUSH vowed Friday to impose ''sanctions'' against the Art Institute of Chicago unless it implemented a review policy to prevent...

The furor over what had been, the day before, an obscure entry in a private student art exhibit grew Thursday into a political and constitutional conflict involving charges of racism...

Chicago police and a delegation of aldermen Wednesday removed a painting from the School of the Art Institute that one aldermen described as ''an insult to Harold Washington, an insult...

Gov. James Thompson and U.S. Sen. Lawton Chiles (D., Fla.) Monday toured a South Side housing project where teenage mothers learn to care for themselves and their children in a...

As far as Aurelia Pucinski is concerned, the theme of her campaign for clerk of the Cook County Circuit Court against Republican Edward Vrdolyak has already taken shape. ''He`s a...

Thousands of Chicago-area motorists apparently heeded predictions of terminal gridlock and stayed off the Dan Ryan Expressway Tuesday, leaving die- hard expressway drivers the almost-solitary pleasure of a quick morning...