Robert Davis

Richard Phelan, Cook County Board president, vowed to correct reports of poor financial practices by Richard Martwick, county regional schools superintendent, or seek to abolish the office. Phelan said Friday...

Twenty-one years after he was shot to death by police in a West Side apartment, Black Panther leader Fred Hampton is still provoking heated controversy in City Hall-this time because...

The new 15-member Chicago Board of Education was overwhelmingly approved by the Chicago City Council Wednesday, and it then traveled across town to be formally sworn in at board chambers...

The city`s two major taxicab companies are imposing an average 8.3 percent lease rate on their cabdrivers just seven months after company officials told the City Council and Mayor Richard...

Sue Barry, an Air Force Reserve triage nurse who on the battlefield has responsibility to decide-sometimes with only seconds to spare-who lives and who dies, sat glued to the television...

Local school councils will be ultimately responsible for implementing extraordinary security measures, such as installing metal detectors or bringing in drug-sniffing dogs, Chicago School Supt. Ted Kimbrough said Wednesday. Kimbrough...

Chicago Police Supt. LeRoy Martin struck back at criticism of his gang crimes unit commander Friday, saying the charges by Hispanics against the black police officer were racially motivated. Martin...

Mayor Richard Daley said Tuesday he takes seriously a West Side alderman`s symbolic suggestion that the military be called in to fight drug traffic but said the effort would be...

The political winds are starting to blow against the prospect of a new tax-subsidized domed stadium west of McCormick Place for the Chicago Bears. The big project was rattled several...

Efrain Maldonado spent 45 minutes filling out forms. He had one for each parking ticket: 97 in all. He had to write his name 291 times. ''I`m tired,'' he said....