George Papajohn

To get to Larry Hoover, considered a clever and careful gang leader, federal investigators needed to go beyond the traditional detective methods involving the use of phone taps, informants and...

Unemployed Belfast bartender Gerry Adams and underemployed Chicago consultant Wallace "Gator" Bradley can claim one shared accomplishment. Both have shaken hands with Bill Clinton. This small grip on mainstream politics...

Suppose they gave an election and nobody came. Well, in Chicago, it's probably not going to be that bad. But Thomas Leach, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners,...

Last week brought us Wallace "Gator" Bradley, 3rd Ward aldermanic candidate, announcing that he was not a gang member in an effort to control damage from an earlier outburst in...

When Angelo Roberts, a young but ambitious member of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang, was released from prison in June, he was ready to take on two powerful forces,...

There is no good place in Illinois to lock up an 11-year-old boy. When Juvenile Court Judge Thomas R. Sumner was confronted in July with a request to temporarily lock...

When I was a boy, the guys on the block had a guiding principle for trading baseball cards: "An eye for eye, a tooth for a tooth, a Cub for...

In his wood-paneled office on the 5th floor of City Hall, with a small army of reporters watching, Mayor Richard Daley basked in some of the glory of President Clinton's...

Chicago looked soccer square in the eye Sunday and said, as sincerely as it could: I'm not ready for a long-term commitment. You're a nice sport, with some nice qualities,...

Many Americans will never appreciate a well-executed corner kick. Multitudes will never comprehend a yellow card. But you'd think we could at least figure out the sport's most famous cheer,...