Manuel Galvan

With a lagging effort to mobilize support, the bid by Ald. Timothy Evans (4th) to succeed Mayor Harold Washington appeared stuck Sunday as his key black opponent, Ald. Eugene Sawyer...

Allies of Ald. Eugene Sawyer (6th) contended early Monday that they have 28 solid votes in the Chicago City Council, which-unless tentative agreements with a bloc of white aldermen fall...

Around 6:30 a.m. Monday, the hearse bearing the body of Mayor Harold Washington is scheduled to leave a funeral home to begin a day of ceremony that will include a...

Mayor Harold Washington, 65, Chicago`s first black mayor, died Wednesday, leaving an indelible imprint on political history but an uncertain future for the city he had just begun to control....

Mayor Harold Washington suffered a fatal heart attack while working at his desk in his fifth floor office at City Hall Wednesday morning. The 65-year-old mayor was rushed to Northwestern...

Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis beat out two favorite sons in Chicago Sunday in a presidential straw poll taken among Hispanic voters at a leadership conference. ''It would appear he`s pretty...

Ald. Robert Shaw (9th), who is seeking to throw open the locked restroom doors of service stations throughout the city, Monday announced that he also will try to help distressed...

There was the time back in 1981 when he popped up near the end of a routine Chicago City Council meeting, asked for permission to pass an emergency ordinance and,...

Four employees of Loomis Armored Inc. were indicted Wednesday on charges that they stole more than $3,800 from city parking meters. The city`s Office of Municipal Investigations launched an investigation...

The Chicago Theatre project, a civic effort to anchor business in the North Loop and return night life to the city`s downtown area, moved a step closer Tuesday to a...