Joel Kaplan

The new leadership of the Chicago Housing Authority, which promised to end political patronage and interference at the cash-strapped agency, is hiring employees with close ties to City Hall, including...

Hoping to avoid a repeat of past debacles, city officials recommended Monday that a $2.4 million contract be awarded to New Jersey-based Computil Corp. to implement an efficient way to...

City revenue officials said Monday that they have narrowed the decision over who will collect overdue parking tickets to three companies, including controversial Datacom Inc., which was dumped from its...

It was every parent`s nightmare: to send your children off to the supposed safety of the neighborhood school and have them fall victim to random, senseless violence. But when Winnetka...

''You should be a man for others,'' the Jesuits at the 79-year-old Loyola Academy in north suburban Wilmette teach their charges. Tall, well-built and a member of the University of...

Mayor Eugene Sawyer summoned four members of the Chicago Housing Authority board to his office Thursday night and asked that they resign in advance of his plans to announce the...

Mayor Eugene Sawyer, buffeted by increasingly angry demands to decide the fate of an aide who has rocked his administration with racist remarks, broke promises to resolve the matter Wednesday,...

Gov. James Thompson planned to meet Friday with representatives of a coalition that is threatening to shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway unless minorities get a greater share of the...

A coalition insisting that minorities get a greater share of the $210 million in contracts for rebuilding the Dan Ryan Expressway renewed its threats Wednesday to shut down the project,...

A former Continental Bank vice president said Wednesday that he has no idea why Mayor Eugene Sawyer received a finder`s fee for arranging bank loans for an Arizona real estate...