Dan Webb

On the corner of Division and Dearborn, the shadows creep up the fronts of buildings as a neighborhood changes its skin. The moms pushing the strollers head for home. The old ladies in puffy coats walk their little white dogs back to their condos for...

Maybe something good will come from the Shakespearean tragedy that is the Jesse Jackson Jr. saga: A deeper understanding of mental illness and more empathy for those afflicted with it. Or maybe not. The level of cynicism in these parts is so high that...

Even in Chicago, a city whose political community is not easily shocked by allegations of corruption, the resignation of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. comes as a bit of a stunner. The word "promising" keeps popping up again and again in news reports as in, for...

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the ambitious political heir to a powerful Chicago family whose once promising future collapsed amid federal ethics investigations and a diagnosis of mental illness, resigned Wednesday from the South Side congressional seat he held...

Edward Genson's legal education began at age 6, as he tagged along with his father, a bail bondsman, and hung out in courtrooms. Dan Webb talked a dean at Loyola University into letting him start law school a year early, an unheard-of feat. He still...

A noticeably less cocky and sarcastic Scott Fawell, testifying for a second day Monday at former Gov. George Ryan's trial, provided a window for jurors into the nitty-gritty world of Illinois politics and the privileges of power. Fawell, chief of staff...