2005: U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow found her husband and mother shot dead in the basement of her home, less than a year after white supremacist Matthew Hale was convicted of trying to have her ...

Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has been released from the hospital and is now at a rehabilitation center after experiencing what his doctor called a “neurological event.” Daley, 80, spent five ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Mayor Richard M. Daley stood at his mother's bedside as she passed away in his childhood home, the victim of an apparent stroke. Eleanor ``Sis'' Daley, matriarch of a political family ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Former Mayor Richard M. Daley was honored with a community humanitarian award on Saturday. The award was presented at Olive Harvey College as part of the 20th annual Christmas in the ...

During the reign of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley, the Cook County Democratic Organization -- called "the machine" -- held complete sway over Chicago politics, handing out patronage jobs in order to ...