Stanley Ziemba

Though Zirl Smith`s resignation as executive director of the Chicago Housing Authority may have ended his battles with board chairman Renault Robinson, it didn`t settle the question of who will...

The abrupt resignation Wednesday of Chicago Housing Authority executive director Zirl Smith ended his nearly three-year power struggle with CHA chairman Renault Robinson, but the mayoral campaign is likely to...

The Chicago Housing Authority lost $7 million in federal funds Wednesday for remodeling work at its Robert Taylor Homes complex because the agency did not award contracts for the work...

It was 8:30 a.m. Monday. Zirl Smith had spent the weekend, as he spends most weekends, at a friend`s country home, to escape the mounting frustrations of a job he...

The Chicago Plan Commission Thursday took steps to stop lakefront erosion on the Far North Side and recommended rejection of a controversial plan to build a 12-story parking garage and...

For the last nine years, home for Ben Roberts, 17, has been a fifth-floor room in Children`s Memorial Hospital. On Aug. 6, he will become 18. That means he will...

Carl Sandburg called Chicago ''the city of big shoulders.'' For years, some people believed those shoulders belonged to Arthur Rubloff, whose name, in giant letters, appeared on billboards on so...

Tenants of a Southwest Side public-housing project are expected to win approval next week of their long-sought effort to manage the development themselves, Chicago Housing Authority chairman Renault Robinson announced...

Nearly 9,500 home mortage loans totaling $429.5 million to first-time home buyers have been made by the Illinois Housing Development Authority, the state`s housing finance agency, since it began providing...

Judy Koehler had a quartet, called Wine and Roses, for her victory party Tuesday night, but a convention of psychiatrists kept the musicians silent for most of the evening. It...