Robert Davis

A Chicago City Colleges Board plan to increase emphasis on basic and vocational classes is a scheme to ''create slavery again,'' charged an Illinois state legislator Monday, as several other...

Ald. Bernard Stone, whose North Side 50th Ward would be directly affected by a proposed shopping complex in southwest Evanston, said Tuesday he is so enraged that he would build...

Even on a normal day, City Hall can be a pretty boisterous place when the Chicago City Council is in session. Thursday was not a normal day. As aldermen engaged...

Citing the slaying of a 13-year-old in an abandoned South Side garage, several aldermen and a housing advocacy group Wednesday asked the city to include at least $2 million in...

Amid the bitter sparring between Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and City Treasurer Miriam Santos, Gov. Jim Edgar is trying to avoid being tagged by political jabs that could leave permanent...

Chicago`s financial woes spilled over to the suburbs Tuesday when Mayor Richard Daley proposed increasing the charge that more than 100 suburbs in Cook and Du Page Counties pay for...

Chicago`s often-criticized City Colleges are in store for a sweeping change of mission putting a new focus on work force training under the leadership of Ronald Gidwitz, Mayor Richard Daley`s...

Each midday, Brian Lauter`s traveling Burrito King wagon stakes out a parking place in the busy financial section of the South Loop, peddling his wares to the bright-colored-jacket crowd that...

Mayor Richard Daley on Wednesday defended his administration`s use of a special tax to pay for the salaries of police dispatchers instead of a new 911 facility, and he denied...

Mayor Richard Daley vowed Tuesday to take a close look at possible state legislation permitting casino boat gambling in Chicago and Cook and Lake Counties before making a final decision...