Todd Lighty

Angered by Tribune editorials, Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to get members of the paper's editorial board fired, promising in exchange to support lucrative state financial assistance in the sale of...

Mayor Richard Daley's administration still isn't following basic rules designed to keep city hiring free of politics, a court-appointed official said Thursday. A year after submitting a blueprint to clean...

The state Supreme Court declined Wednesday to consider an appeal from the mother of deceased Northwestern football player Rashidi Wheeler, which likely will bring to and end the long-running legal...

Mayor Richard Daley took an hourlong boat ride on the Chicago River in fall 1997 and came back with a vision of improving the riverfront in the city's neighborhoods. Just...

The arrest report filed by two Chicago police officers claimed they searched Raymundo Martinez outside a Southwest Side bar because he threw a bottle of Corona down on the sidewalk...

When Chicago Police Officer Jerome Finnigan talked to a fellow indicted cop about killing another officer providing information against them in a corruption probe, he worried about leaving fingerprints on...

Linda Will's six-year legal odyssey, which began shortly after the death of her son during a Northwestern football practice, has taken another twist. One of the lawyers she had fired,...

The U.S. attorney's office has joined the ongoing criminal probe of an elite squad of the Chicago Police Department, working with Cook County prosecutors to investigate why police officials did...

The U.S. attorney's office has joined the ongoing criminal probe of an elite squad of the Chicago Police Department, working with Cook County prosecutors to investigate why police officials did...