Wes Smith

In one of the first attempts to force minority-group hiring guidelines on a privately funded construction project, similar to Mayor Harold Washington`s ''30 percent'' rule for city projects, an alliance...

The Christmas sacrament of conspicuous consumption blessed retailers throughout the Chicago area Friday as more than a million shoppers, browsers and parents posing as elves took advantage of balmy weather...

Two people were killed and four injured, one critically, on Saturday when a loaded lumber truck on the Dan Ryan Expressway at 18th Street struck three cars and a tour...

The 17-year-old Elk Grove Village youth charged with running down and killing a state trooper had an extensive history of petty crimes in the western suburbs and had once before...

Probation officer Jerry Crowley took a chance on Luis, a 17-year-old with a charming manner that belied his criminal record. On paper, it was a big chance. Luis had been...

''They can`t expect me to back them up in the media when they give one rate and I give another,'' Bollensen said. ''I don`t think you can fool the public...

The young come in handcuffs or hand-in-hand with their mothers to Cook County Circuit Court`s juvenile delinquency courtrooms. Some are teen gang assassins who hide bullets in their sweatsocks. Others...

The orphanage in the cornfields was founded in 1890 just outside this Downstate Livingston County farm community. Operated and owned by a local church congregation, it was known in its...

Luigi Nervoso, an Italian who grew up in Argentina and came to Chicago, tried to hold neutral ground in no man`s land Thursday afternoon as he stood behind the bar...

The city`s late, great and totally unsedate Chez Paree nightclub on the Near North Side will ''Chez It Again'' under new management in early May. Once the city`s ''smartest restaurant...