William Gaines

Richard Williamson, a 33-year-old senior aide to President Reagan, needed a change. For almost two years, Williamson had been the White House liaison to the nation`s governors and mayors, attempting...

The Illinois Department of Public Aid should have been notified when Edna Moseley received $28,750 from the sale of timber rights on property she had inherited in Alabama. On that...

Nearly every account of Ross Perot`s life mentions the rescue from an Iranian prison of two executives of his Electronic Data Systems Corp. What better example of someone who gets...

Nearly every account of Ross Perot`s life mentions the rescue from an Iranian prison of two executives of his Electronic Data Systems Corp. What better example of someone who gets...

The voice on the line was unmistakable, its East Texas twang the remnant of a childhood spent in small-town Texarkana. Weeks earlier, the first unauthorized biography of Ross Perot had...

When the river pilings at Kinzie Street were installed they were just bundles of chain-bound logs-obscure maritime accessories designed to keep errant river pilots from bumping into the base of...

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp., the company that installed the river pilings being blamed for Chicago`s Loop flood, acknowledged Thursday that it erred in certifying it was eligible to...

The installation of 50-foot-long piling clusters at the Kinzie Street bridge last summer was a routine city contract: replace bundles of weathered wood pilings with new timbers of yellow Southern...

State inspectors never made a required final inspection of the construction of pilings at the Kinzie Street bridge because Chicago city workers never told them that the job had been...

Despite a specific warning to a contractor to install new pilings in exactly the same place as rotted wood pilings to avoid damaging structures under the river at the Kinzie...