The Chicago Bears announced last week they are making Hammond, Indiana, their priority for a new stadium, and while it's not a done deal yet, Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. said he's confident the ...

HAMMOND, Ind. (WGN) — At one point in time, it was a forgone conclusion that the Chicago Bears would stay put in Illinois, but on Thursday, Indiana state lawmakers pulled off a play so effective that ...

Thomas C. McDermott, a businessman and compassionate family man who was elected to RIT’s Board of Trustees in 1986, died peacefully in his Pittsford, N.Y. home on Dec. 7. He was 89. Mr. McDermott held ...

HAMMOND, Ind. (WLS) -- Hammond officials said they stopped U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from staging at their northwest Indiana police department on Thursday. Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr.

Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. is again asking the courts to drop him, his podcast and the city from the ongoing lawsuit with the former Lake County Convention and Visitors Authority CEO Speros ...

Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. expects the Chicago Bears will decide by the end of June whether the team will construct a multi-billion dollar professional football stadium in Northwest Indiana.

HAMMOND, Ind. — “Are youse guys gonna steal da Bears? And do you wanna come with?” In the dialect of Da Region, Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. has heard it all. And he wasn’t born yesterday, so ...