Joel Kaplan

Mayor Richard Daley, comfortable and relaxed in his spacious City Hall office, is pleased with his first 100 days as the city`s 45th mayor. ''I think I`ve done more in...

Mayor Richard Daley charged Thursday that the city`s Housing Department was so riddled with favoritism and influence-peddling that just three well-connected businessmen received 59 percent of all federal tax credits...

As Mayor Richard M. Daley searches for ways to plug a $122 million budget shortfall, Ald. William Banks (36th), one of Daley`s chief City Council allies, is quietly pushing a...

Critics of an O`Hare International Airport lease benefiting clients of House Speaker Michael Madigan are questioning whether the speaker has reached an accommodation with Mayor Richard Daley to preserve the...

In the middle of March of last year, Laurie Dann began gathering library books on poisoning and sleuthing, stealing disguises and deadly chemicals and keeping lists of people she wanted...

The Wassermans were, by 1984, semiretired and spending much of their time in Florida. When they were gone, their calls came every Sunday night, like clockwork, and always seemed to...

Several weeks before his daughter went on a murderous rampage, Norman Wasserman, then 58, sat down in his vacation condominium in Boca Raton, Fla., and in neat block printing wrote...

At a classy hotel in downtown Chicago and in working-class bars in blue-collar neighborhoods, supporters of Richard M. Daley celebrated his Democratic primary victory Tuesday night as if he had...

State`s Atty. Richard M. Daley said Wednesday that ''we have to turn the school system around.'' He also said that, as mayor, he would ''reach out to every community ....

Cook County State`s Atty. Richard M. Daley continued to protect his lead in the polls Sunday as he traveled from a fire-and-brimstone service at a South Side black church to...