Joel Kaplan

In an announcement tinged with election campaign overtones, Mayor Eugene Sawyer declared Tuesday that he will push for passage of Chicago`s first affirmative action ordinance for awarding city contracts. ''I...

`Chicago will have a long hot summer,'' Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. promised in May of 1966, ''but not a summer of racial violence. Rather it will be a long...

Mayor Eugene Sawyer stood firmly behind a campaign fundraiser Thursday, saying he would not ask Robert P. Aulston to step down from his fundraising role despite his decade-old conviction on...

Illegal drug activity and abuse has become so pervasive across Chicago that the only way to combat it is to form a city cabinet-level department whose sole function is to...

Chicago mayoral challengers charged Sunday that Cook County State`s Atty. Richard M. Daley is engaging in a ''cover-up'' by not prosecuting members of his staff for irregularites in the gathering...

The growing popularity of electronic pagers in school classrooms has led the Chicago City Council to consider a ban on the devices, which some aldermen say are being used as...

A company that will receive 25 percent of a controversial multimillion-dollar ash-hauling contract is financially controlled by a top political ally and former business partner of Mayor Eugene Sawyer, records...

Chicago Fire Commissioner Louis Galante, under investigation for allegedly doing architectural work without a license, has been supplementing his fire department income with freelance drafting work for more than 25...

A Korean immigrant who recently expanded her gift store business to include a downtown florist shop off Michigan Avenue was found stabbed to death Thursday morning in the store`s bathroom....

The Chicago Housing Authority`s $14 million plan to renovate two vacant lakefront high-rises has hit a major snag following congressional action that will delay rehabilitation work on public housing units...