Robert Davis

The Chicago City Council elected Tuesday will offer re-elected Mayor Harold Washington a new challenge to define who`s on his side and who`s not, although with the defeat of two...

Mayor Harold Washington appears to be heading into his second term with a City Council majority of at least 27 consistent votes, better than the 25-25 split he held in...

Aides to County Assessor Thomas Hynes, who have blamed Mayor Harold Washington for dividing the city and Ald. Edward Vrdolyak (10th) for dividing the anti-Washington vote, blamed the Chicago news...

Gov. James R. Thompson ruled out a bid for the presidency or vice presidency in 1988 Friday, citing family responsibility and the press of state government. ''I am not a...

The two top ranking officials of the Chicago Housing Authority leaped to the defense of deputy executive director Joseph Gardner Tuesday over attempts by mayoral candidate Thomas Hynes to make...

Former Mayor Jane Byrne ended her Democratic primary election campaign Monday where she began it 19 months ago--standing in front of a locked Navy Pier, a symbol, she said, of...

Former Mayor Jane Byrne`s comeback trail zigzagged to nearly every corner of Chicago Sunday in a frenetic search for the final votes she needs to capture the Democratic mayoral nomination...

Harold Washington and Jane Byrne, who both have waged four-year campaigns for the privilege of attaching the title ''mayor'' to their names, are entering the 10 final days of a...

Harold Washington and Jane Byrne, who have waged four-year campaigns for the privilege of attaching the title ''mayor'' to their names, are entering the 10 final days of a battle...

Mayor Harold Washington Saturday demanded that former Mayor Jane Byrne halt her commercials accusing him of racial divisiveness, Byrne categorically refused and Rev. Jesse Jackson called the entire matter ''silly.''...