Manuel Galvan

Mayor Harold Washington recharged the batteries of his core vote Monday with two energy-packed rallies intended to revive the fervor of his 1983 campaign, which drew a massive turnout from...

Mayor Harold Washington has demanded that former Mayor Jane Byrne halt her commercials accusing him of racial divisiveness, Byrne has categorically refused and Rev. Jesse Jackson has called the entire...

Mayor Harold Washington Saturday demanded that former Mayor Jane Byrne halt her commercials accusing him of racial divisiveness, Byrne categorically refused and Rev. Jesse Jackson called the entire matter ''silly.''...

Mayor Harold Washington Saturday demanded that former Mayor Jane Byrne halt her commercials accusing him of racial divisiveness, Byrne categorically refused and Rev. Jesse Jackson called the entire matter ''silly.''...

With more and more indications that the Feb. 24 mayoral primary will be decided by a narrow margin, the leading Democratic candidates this weekend concentrated on some key swing-vote areas....

Political strategies continued taking shape Saturday as Mayor Harold Washington praised his record and criticized his critics, and Jane Byrne played to much larger crowds than the small coffee parties...

A U.S. District Court judge Friday rejected a proposed consent decree that would have authorized a team of federally appointed court observers to participate in a review next week of...

Four years ago, when John Mohrlein moved into his Far North Side low-rise condominium, he had no idea that he eventually would be forced to build a dike to thwart...

Mayor Harold Washington declared flatly Wednesday that he no longer supports a city income tax, acquiescing to one of the key recommendations of a blue-ribbon report on city finances within...

Encouraged by the victory of GOP candidate James O`Grady in the Cook County sheriff`s race, Chicago`s top Republican predicted Tuesday that three dozen GOP candidates would run for alderman in...