Patrick T. Reardon

In 1993, at the funeral of a 14-year-old boy killed in a gang shootout at the Cabrini-Green public housing development, Marion Nzinga Stamps told the crowd of youthful mourners: "Brothers...

Neighborhood businesses throughout Chicago could lose as much as a quarter of a billion dollars a year if welfare cuts being debated in the Senate are passed, according to a...

In April 1975, George Halas, the founder and owner of the Chicago Bears, unveiled a proposal to move his professional football team to northwest suburban Arlington Heights. Mayor Richard J....

Four-year-old Kori Chupp had fun demonstrating in January against American military policy at the U.S. Navy's Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Communications facility in the Cheqauamegon National Forest in far northern...

Rush hour over, a warm October Wednesday: The helmeted cop in short sleeves comes putt-putting down an all-but-empty State Street astride his toylike, all-terrain vehicle. On the sidewalk, a tall...

Chicago will have to make a $525,000 payment by next March 1 as a first installment to rent the United Center for the 1996 Democratic National Convention, according to the...

Twenty-two-year-old Teresa Smith doesn't like living on welfare. Almost every day, she goes looking for work. But, so far, she's come up empty. "There aren't enough jobs out there," said...

For the second year in a row, Chicago's violent crime rate fell by more than 6 percent in 1993, but the city still ranked as one of the five most...

Chicago Housing Authority Chairman Vincent Lane's proposal to raise $1 billion or more in a bond sale this year would give financial muscle, for the first time, to his grand...

Federal housing officials are poised to propose a subtle shift in law to create a way for the Chicago Housing Authority to pay for a bold transformation of its developments,...