Ray Gibson

Thousands of Illinois public officials from the Statehouse to city and town halls participate in an annual ritual by filing ethics statements to disclose potential conflicts of interest between their...

A former Bannockburn trustee tried to save his North Shore home from foreclosure by engaging in a fraudulent bankruptcy scheme that claimed a member of the 1985 Chicago Bears as...

SPRINGFIELD — State Sen. Rickey Hendon, a flamboyant former West Side alderman known for his nickname "Hollywood" and his controversial mouth, abruptly quit Thursday. "I'm out," Hendon, 57, told the...

Mayoral candidate Gery Chico on Wednesday said he'll hire 2,000 more Chicago police officers if elected, but did not offer specifics on how he'd come up with the money to...

Releasing a candidate's tax returns to the public during a campaign is often a routine step, meant to show voters the candidate's affairs are in order and give an idea...

Mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun was late in paying property taxes on her Hyde Park home five of the last six times her bill was due, according to public records...

After his South Shore laundry failed about six years ago, Chuck Dai said he gave up on the broken-down building on East 75th Street that he and a relative had...

A suburban strip club owner was charged Thursday with criminal tax offenses seven years after Internal Revenue Service agents seized $12 million in cash he had stashed in a warehouse....

Not long after developer Anthony Rossi got City Hall approval for a much-needed zoning change in downtown Chicago, he received a surprising phone call from the speaker of the Illinois...

In his rise to the pinnacle of Illinois politics, House Speaker Michael J. Madigan built a reputation for wielding control over every bill, every budget line and every Democratic representative...