Todd Lighty

Testimony in the federal corruption trial of a Chicago developer on Thursday revealed that U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez met with the developer and Mayor Richard Daley to push for the...

The booming preacher's voice he often used to staunchly defend Mayor Richard Daley's policies at City Hall was missing Monday as a stone-faced Ald. Isaac "Ike" Carothers quietly pleaded guilty...

Right up until the end, Michael Scott worked the hectic schedule of one of Mayor Richard Daley's fixers. As school board president, he wrestled with the aftermath of the fatal...

William Shakespeare famously suggested in "Henry VI, Part II" that, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." Well, maybe not so fast. The recession has led to...

Mayor Richard Daley's hiring regulator needs to show more independence from City Hall and conduct more rigorous analysis of alleged hiring abuses, the attorney at the center of a decades-long...

A key member of Mayor Richard Daley's Olympic committee has a long business relationship with a developer vying to build the billion-dollar Olympic Village, the grandest piece of Chicago's plans...

With little publicity, the Chicago Park District has committed to kicking in $20 million to help build a canoe and kayak slalom course on Northerly Island if the city is...

Support in Chicago for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games has dwindled, with residents now sharply divided over whether the city should host the Games, a Tribune/WGN poll has found. Nearly...

Financially strapped Tribune Co. plans to pay the legal bills of Chairman and Chief Executive Sam Zell, who has been interviewed as a potential witness in the federal corruption investigation...