DALEY PUTS UP DUKES-LIKE HIS DAD
Mayor Richard Daley`s honeymoon might have been abruptly canceled last week at a gay and lesbian forum held in a Swedish eatery, but the mayor signaled that if the marriage...
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CITY WON`T SELL CLINICS, OFFICIAL SAYS
In another attempt to stifle continuing controversy over the sale or privatization of some of the city`s beleaguered health clinics, Acting Health Commissioner Richard Krieg said Wednesday that the department...
`I REMEMBER THINKING THAT THIS IS WHAT DYING IS LIKE`
In seat 19-J, Chicago lawyer Ron May stashed his legal papers and opened up a comedy novel, ''Dirk Gently`s Holistic Detective Agency.'' Three rows ahead, the aircraft`s hum was lulling...
BIG PLANS, HOPES FOR CITY HEALTH
Fighting AIDS, strengthening the city`s trauma network, raising regulatory fines and fees, and consolidating health services-perhaps with an eye toward privatizing some under community control-are the goals of Chicago`s new...
HOSPITAL IN CENTER OF STORM
Confronted with a terminally ill patient in an irreversible coma whose family wants extraordinary measures stopped, most doctors and experts on medical ethics would quietly pull the plug. Hospital lawyers,...
DALEY RENEWS PROMISE TO FIRE HEALTH CHIEF
Cook County State`s Atty. Richard M. Daley capped a week of campaign stops specifically aimed at presenting his views on public health issues Friday by reiterating his intention to fire...
SAWYER CAMPAIGN IN MIXUP ON DEBATE
Mixed signals vexed Mayor Eugene Sawyer`s campaign again Tuesday when it was forced to back off from an ''inadvertent'' commitment to join his two principal challengers in a live, televised...
A LESS LIBERAL LAKEFRONT LIKES DALEY
The level of support from lakefront voters that helped swing the 1983 and 1987 mayoral elections to the late Harold Washington doesn`t appear to be there for either Eugene Sawyer...
SEX EDUCATION FALLS SHORT, STUDY SAYS
Junior high school teachers in the South Cook County suburbs teach only basic facts of anatomy and physiology in sex education classes and shy away from dealing with contraception or...
CANDIDATES FAIL TO STIR LAKEFRONT
It`s midnight in the 3300 block of North Halsted Street and it`s cold. A man who asked to be called Vince has been sitting here for hours, handing out literature...