Robert Davis

Across the country and in Chicago, tensions were already high by the time delegates to the Democratic National Convention arrived for the opening session on this date. The destruction of...

When Cook County Democratic leaders met in December 1954 to pick a candidate for the 1955 mayoral race, they gave Mayor Martin Kennelly three minutes and 58 seconds to make...

If Lawrence Bloom's indictment on federal corruption charges Tuesday was shocking, it was because of his reputation as the pillar of independence and integrity on the Chicago City Council, a...

People who know Hope Shiluk, and there don't appear to be too many, say the 53-year-old woman who lived in the brick two-flat at 6747 S. Rockwell St. always had...

The country was watching again, but this was so much different than last time. On that unseasonably warm October afternoon in 1995, the trial of O.J. Simpson was still on...

They called it The Dance, and old-time Chicago precinct captains feared it the most. They hated to see carefully culled voters disappear behind the curtains of elephantine voting machines and,...

For just an hour or so Thursday night, the West Side of Chicago was the center of the universe. Well, not a real universe, but for the thousands there and...

In the years when he had stood as strong and tall as Superman, actor Christopher Reeve was no stranger to political causes, appearing frequently on Capitol Hill to use his...

The government lifted the veil on Operation Silver Shovel on Wednesday, detailing a sweeping 3 1/2-year sting greased with $150,000 in payoffs and bolstered by 1,100 taped conversations between public...

Even on those Monday nights when the bears get humiliated on national television, there is at least one shining moment when the cameras go blimpward. Below sits the venerable Soldier...