Robert Davis

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.''...

With less than a month until the Feb. 24 mayoral primary election, the candidates spent last week dealing not only with the issues but with diversions such as debate disputes...

The 1987 mayoral campaign, sidetracked most of this week by disputes over electoral procedure and debates about debates, returned to the issues Thursday with the candidates crisscrossing the city, accusing,...

Former Mayor Jane Byrne Thursday promised to stage another ChicagoFest music and food festival this summer if she is elected mayor again, while Mayor Harold Washington was talking again about...

The campaign trail to the mayor`s office on the 5th floor of City Hall is not straight and narrow; it is filled with peaks and valleys, some foreseen and others...

Mayoral candidates Jane Byrne and Ald. Edward Vrdolyak (10th) Friday criticized Mayor Harold Washington`s hiring practices and contract awarding procedures, respectively, while the mayor dismissed Byrne as ''nervous and frenetic''...

Renault Robinson, the embattled chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, resigned Friday after more than three stormy years as head of the nation`s second-largest public housing authority. Robinson`s resignation, announced...

Renault Robinson, the embattled chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority, resigned Friday after more than three stormy years as head of the nation`s second largest public housing authority. Robinson`s resignation,...

There were many happy returns in Chicago area stores, as thousands of shoppers took advantage Friday of the second day of a long holiday weekend to bring back wrong-sized clothes...

Downtown Chicago merchants and police are bracing themselves for the invasion Friday of 1 million gift-returners, sightseers and motorists--an urban tradition that has failed to materialize for the last two...