Robert Davis

Former city budget director Donald H. Haider, striking the theme of ''a new beginning,'' launched his bid Wednesday for the GOP nomination for mayor of Chicago in 1987 and accepted...

The still-young mayoral election campaign took another sharp personal turn Friday as Mayor Harold Washington warned Ald. Edward R. Vrdolyak (10th) that he will reply in kind to personal attacks...

The battle over an attempt to change the law and make next year`s mayoral election a nonpartisan contest, requiring a majority vote for victory, continued to flare on several fronts...

The controversial referendum seeking to change the rules for electing Chicago`s mayor has been ordered off the Nov. 4 ballot--at least for now. The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners decided...

He wouldn`t miss an opening day if he could help it, and during the season he was a regular in a front row box along the third-base line he often...

Construction at the troubled McCormick Place annex resumed Thursday as about two-thirds of the 700 tradesmen who had been honoring striking cement finishers` picket lines since Monday returned to work....

The legendary Democratic machine, the political war horse that has stampeded through Chicago for decades, threw a shoe Tuesday, primarily because its stalwarts chose to use old rules in a...

Six voters and an election judge were indicted Thursday by a Cook County grand jury on charges of violating state election laws in the March 18 primary election, State`s Atty....

5It was generally accepted going into the March 18 primary election that with only two ''genuine'' candidates in the 26th Ward special aldermanic election, there would be no chance of...

Standing on the sidewalk outside City Hall`s LaSalle Street entrance, Lyndon LaRouche disciple Sheila Jones Friday announced to more than 35 reporters and television crew members that she plans to...