Lisa Song

After years of unusual strength, the dollar has declined in value compared with other hard currencies--a victim of lower interest rates, a soft stock market and a glut of American...

Doctors treating Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley said today that Daley will be kept in the hospital another day for further cardiovascular testing, and that he appears to be suffering...

Two former Illinois secretary of state employees and a driving-school operator received prison time today in the federal Operation Safe Road investigation of the bribes-for-licenses scandal. The three men were...

Federal authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the man who has been charged in the bombing death of a City Colleges janitor last...

It may look like a winter wonderland outside, but there will be nothing pleasant about the trip home this evening. A second wave of snow is blanketing Chicago just in...

The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals today threw out the corruption conviction of former City Treasurer Miriam Santos, saying the judge who presided over her trial last spring committed...

Rev. Jesse Jackson's civil rights group wants an answer from the Green Bay Packers. The question is whether Ray Rhodes, fired after one season as head coach, was held to...

Finding your way around Chicago may be as easy as looking at your necktie. The nation's second-largest transit agency today introduced a new line of Chicago Transit Authority fashion accessories...

Authorities today are investigating how a 10-year-old boy who was visiting Lincoln Park Zoo with a friend drowned in a zoo lagoon sometime Tuesday afternoon or evening. The body of...