Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential bid got a big boost from Mayor Richard J. Daley. But when he ran for a second term in 1980, ...

From his first election in 1955 until his death in 1976, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (Richard I) had a City Council to live for. With virtually no opposition except independent 5th Ward Ald.

The nation's 39th president, who died Sunday at 100, was in Chicago many times over the years, as he rose from relative ...

Carter visited Chicago numerous times during his campaign for president in 1976, as president between 1977 and 1981, and ...

Mayor Johnson sacks the school’s chief for his teachers union funders.

Government officials and other stakeholders argued in our section about how we got here and what should be done for Chicago ...

Decades after a former Chicago mayor pledged to extend transit to the city’s far South Side, the federal government is ...

It only cost $2 to take the Chicago Skyway toll road from Northwest Indiana into the city in 2004. Now it costs nearly four times as much to take the shortcut between Northwest Indiana and Chicago.

Former President Jimmy Carter’s ties to the Chicago area ran deep. He visited multiple times during his campaigning years, usually staying in the homes of local politicians or supporters from Chicago ...

The a capella choir had celebrity status at a time when the school had 4,000 students, performing in Europe, making record ...

I know I’m excited.” Former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley told residents of Roseland and surrounding areas in 1969 that the L would eventually expand there. Tammy Chase, a spokesperson for ...