City agrees to $6.2 million settlement with Iraq war protestors

The City of Chicago reached a $6.2 million settlement Thursday with some 850 protesters who were wrongfully arrested or detained after a 2003 demonstration that shut down Lake Shore Drive. The settlement would end the nine-year-old class-action lawsuit protesters brought in the wake of mass …Read More

The cardinal vs. the president

Cardinal Francis George has come out swinging. In a letter earmarked to be read this weekend at all Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Chicago, Cardinal George is throwing the gauntlet down at the Obama administration for denying Catholics religious liberty. “We cannot — and …Read More

• California memorial service for Cornelius next week

  A memorial service — with tributes from Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson — will be held for “Soul Train” founder Don Cornelius Feb. 16 in Hollywood Hills, Calif. Cornelius, the former 75-year-old South Side native who died Feb. 1 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in …Read More

• Prosecutors: Man stabbed Naperville teacher, sipped beer then walked away

  After stabbing Naperville teacher Shaun Wild in the chest at a packed Naperville nightclub, Daniel Olaska casually took a sip of his beer before walking away, DuPage County authorities alleged Thursday.