Phat X. Chiem

The Yellow Cab Association on Thursday filed a lawsuit in federal court against the City of Chicago, contending a new cabbie ordinance illegally forced the company to sell 640 of...

Chicago cabdrivers Tuesday made a forceful public statement about their unhappiness with the city's proposed taxi ordinance, staging their most successful job action to date and showing unexpected unity. Though...

Chicago cabdrivers, long divided along ethnic and racial lines, vowed that they would set aside their differences Tuesday and stage a one-day work stoppage--right in the middle of their busiest...

Neat rows of young ROTC cadets, dressed smartly in their crisp, green uniforms, stood at attention Tuesday morning in front of the bronze Victory Memorial at 35th Street and King...

It's just before sunrise, and in Grant Park the scent of Ben-Gay hovers. Bodies litter the grass, stretching and pulling, bouncing and yanking, inhaling Power Bars and sucking down Gatorade...

Less than two weeks ago, Sarah Silins was a homecoming queen leading a parade of teenage well-wishers before a football game. On Sunday, Silins led another parade, but it required...

Sidney Jones was playing his saxophone under the red and white awning in front of a candy shop at the busy Loop intersection of Randolph Street and Wabash Avenue early...

Time was, new judges relied on little more than their legal backgrounds and intuition to figure out how to behave on the bench. A judge would don a robe, take...

Less than an hour into her annual day-after-Thanksgiving shopping, Hertisene Duncan had every reason to tear up her Christmas list and call it a day. She had been phoning stores...

Just after sunrise Friday, an army of shoppers, outfitted with credit cards and comfortable shoes, hit the ground running along Chicago's Magnificent Mile, determined to beat the holiday rush. Many...