Wes Smith

Sixteen prison guards and nine Death Row inmates were injured Wednesday when three of the convicts started a fire at the Pontiac Correctional Center. The condemned men were demanding a...

Three Chicago police officers were wounded Tuesday-one seriously-by a heavily armed taxicab driver who once served 6 years in prison after a strikingly similar incident in 1970, when he wounded...

Private employers participating in the City of Chicago`s summer jobs program last year had 4,500 jobs available for disadvantaged youths, but only 2,000 were filled because of a ''discouragingly high...

A coalition insisting that minorities get a greater share of the $210 million in contracts for rebuilding the Dan Ryan Expressway renewed its threats Wednesday to shut down the project,...

A judge ruled Friday that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute 19-year-old Jeffrey ''J.D.'' Robinson for the Christmas Eve killing of a South Side teenager over a leather jacket. Although...

A Downstate minister who taught English classes at the Vienna Correctional Center for seven years has been charged with providing inmates with marijuana, and a guard at Stateville prison in...

Be they suburban commuters or White Sox rooters, going Greyhound or Chinatown-bound, anyone traveling to or through Chicago after March 1 is going to be affected by the two-year, $210...

The Chicago of Mayor Harold Washington`s vision bade him goodbye this weekend at City Hall, where he had made the diverse and the dispossessed feel welcome for the first time....

The Chicago of Mayor Harold Washington`s vision bade him goodbye this weekend at City Hall, where he had made the diverse and the dispossessed feel welcome for the first time....

The Pontiac prison warden who denied last week that he negotiated with gang leaders at a meeting this summer has twice violated state policy in dealing with gang leaders, according...