William Gaines

Jim Bardsley lives in White Oak, Ga., and runs two businesses. One sells catfish. The other sells human body parts. Bardsley has had the catfish farm for just two years....

Federal authorities are investigating whether the tangled financing of several housing developments in the western and southwestern suburbs played a role in alleged money-laundering schemes suspected of bankrolling Middle Eastern...

The crossroads of the Midwest became a 16-mile-long parking lot as the season's most severe winter storm left thousands of motorists helpless for 24 hours or more, many of them...

No one on trial for murder could be expected to be a model of composure, but Nancy Rish seemed lost in a fog when she testified in 1988. Bubbly and...

Federal investigators probing alleged criminal antitrust violations by Archer Daniels Midland Co. are also looking into allegations of price fixing by ADM and several other companies in a little-known but...

The players in the land game being conducted within shouting distance of Cabrini-Green include many names well known in both the city's real estate community and at City Hall. Chief...

The whirl of change is circling Cabrini-Green, which sits stagnant and decaying in the eye of the cyclone, waiting for the outside forces that will inevitably draw it into the...

On their first full day as landlord to some of Chicago's poorest residents, federal housing officials promised to reshape the landscape by speeding demolition of high-rises, the most visible symbols...

Federal authorities on Thursday accused a daughter of Malcolm X of plotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, her assassinated father's onetime rival. They said the plot never...

If glitzy gambling barges and a high-tech amusement park ever appear on the Chicago River's banks, they would turn land into quick cash for property owners. And dozens of others-from...