Dean Baquet

Mayor Harold Washington said Friday that his administration will go to court, if necessary, to oppose Commonwealth Edison Co.`s latest rate increase request, and he called upon Chicago`s three other...

The primary is over, but the campaign for mayor is just beginning. Even before the votes were counted Tuesday night in the race between Mayor Harold Washington and former Mayor...

In 1979, Otis Reams, owner of Big O Movers & Storage, joined a small association of minority companies seeking a share of city contracts. The group of 16 black and...

Los Angeles Mayor Thomas Bradley came here last summer when his foundering campaign to become the nation`s first black governor was running out of steam and money. Wilson Goode, Philadelphia`s...

Mayor Harold Washington will head to Atlanta Thursday for a glitzy, $1,500-a-ticket fundraiser hosted by the present and former mayors of a city that has had close ties to his...

Joseph Delario was an obscure data processor when he got the idea that made him a rich man. It was 1975. New York City, deep in a financial crisis, desperately...

A confidential report on corruption in Chicago`s government portrays former mayoral adviser Clarence McClain as a major behind-the-scenes player in the Washington administration, with easy access to top officials and...

Florida investigators, bent on building a murder case against FBI informant Michael Raymond, are struggling to find witnesses who might attest that the point man in a major investigation of...

Mayor Harold Washington, in his strongest statement of support for the controversial plan to convert the former Goldblatt Bros. department store into a new central library, said he favors using...

The U.S. Department of Justice investigation of suspected corruption in Chicago government, which made headlines in December and January, has been proceeding quietly since then, and indictments of several city...