Cam Simpson

A week after bringing an unprecedented racketeering indictment against Gov. George Ryan's campaign fund, federal prosecutors sought assurances Tuesday that legal fees wouldn't drain the fund of the $1 million...

Ali S. Al-Marri's acquaintances here find it hard to believe that the man they knew briefly this fall--a graduate student, husband and devoted father of five small children--might have a...

Even before it became embroiled in the unfolding Enron debacle, Chicago-based accounting firm Andersen had been battered by allegations of bogus audits, conflicts of interest and document destruction in a...

Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow embodied the two sides of Enron Corp.--publicly brash innovation and quiet but questionable financing to back the bravado. Ingenious but largely unknown even inside the...

Chicago police distributed thousands of fliers, fielded tips from as far away as Arizona and sent bulletins nationwide Wednesday as the hunt widened for a 16-month-old girl and the mysterious...

Nearly two weeks after Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft announced plans to interview 5,000 men of Middle Eastern descent in the U.S. on temporary visas as part of a broad and...

A reputed Chicago mob boss, believed by authorities to be at the center of a struggle for control of the Outfit's most lucrative turf, was gunned down Tuesday night in...