CHICAGO - Federal prosecutors asked for a criminal case against former Chicago Ald. Danny Solis to be dismissed after his ...

Chicago’s Irish weren’t yet serving as aldermen and mayors, but they were already becoming a political force to be reckoned with. As time went on, property owners evicted Kilgubbin’s squatters.

According to Professor Evan McKenzie, head of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s political science department, this connection to the defunct Washington Federal, along with his status as a member ...

Drug cartel cases in Chicago are playing a disturbing role ... Arcos is the latest of more than two dozen political figures in Mexico murdered during this year's election cycle.

Before first light on Monday, government agents with arrest warrants in hand began knocking on the doors of major organized crime figures in the Chicago area, Florida and Arizona, following what ...

Since the 1950s, the family has sat at the center of a white Democratic political bloc and patronage network dating to the 1800s, known colloquially as the “Chicago machine.” Patrick Daley Thompson is ...

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with a Chicago political scion in his criminal appeal Friday, agreeing an anti-corruption law barring lying to regulators only covers false statements ...