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Does mom love him? Cops say man faked kidnapping to find out
A southwest suburban man who wanted to get money from his family staged his own kidnapping and then demanded a $1,000 ransom, police said.
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Two people injured in “minor derailment” in South Loop
Two people suffered minor injuries after a Red Line CTA train had a “minor derailment” near the Roosevelt station in the South Loop, officials said. The train derailed around 2:15 a.m. in the 1100 block of South State, according to city fire officials. There was …
Spike Lee: Oscars stuck in 1940
In a New York Giants jersey and cap, Spike Lee opened by taunting his audience.
“That’s right! Super Bowl champs! Don’t hate! . . . Where were the Bears?” the iconic New York-based filmmaker asked the crowd of students, faculty and community residents Wednesday night …
Study: CPS has some success turning around grammar schools, not high schools
Only weeks before Chicago School Board members vote on whether to turn around a record number of schools, a new study indicates Chicago’s “turnaround” elementary schools produced better academic gains than other “worst of the worst’’ schools that did not undergo similar reforms.
Chicago’s public …
County board to debate controversial immigration policy
Cook County commissioners will be on the hot seat Thursday as they face critics and supporters of a controversial policy directing the county sheriff to ignore requests from the feds to hold suspected illegal immigrants in jail longer.
Immigration rights activists, expected to show up …
Family of woman left in morgue for 14 months sues Cook County
The family of a Chicago woman whose body sat unidentified in the Cook County morgue for 14 months is suing the county, alleging the medical examiner’s office ignored their requests to help identify her remains.
Seven years for woman who had traces of pot in system during fatal crash
Alia Bernard of Aurora, who killed two motorcyclists when she reached for her sunglasses while driving, was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison.
Firefighters extinguish small kitchen mishap — at their firehouse
Chicago firefighters had to use their skills in their own firehouse when a pot of meat was left cooking while crews went out to respond to an accident, a spokesman said.
Emptying pockets at security checkpoint? Probably best to hang on to your pot
Devante Jackson of Joliet was charged with marijuana possession after emptying five bags of pot from his pockets at the security checkpoint at the River Valley Juvenile Detention Center, police said.
Not so fast. Hold off on Crane H.S. phase-out, hearing officer urges
No decision on the phase-out of Crane High School should be made until school district officials analyze a “well-thought-out’’ Crane-proposed plan for the school’s rejuvenation, an independent hearing officer has recommended.
The recommendation, a vindication for Crane faculty, came after a battery of elected officials …
Merchandise Mart pulls the plug on Art Chicago
Citing mostly financial concerns, Merchandise Mart Properties Inc. Wednesday announced the scuttling of its 2012 Next Art Chicago fair. Slated to take place at the Merchandise Mart in late April, various incarnations of the event have drawn dealers and potential patrons from far and wide …
Mayor Emanuel: Time to speed up trains to O’Hare, Midway
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday he’s evaluating plans to shave up to 12 minutes off CTA travel times between downtown and O’Hare Airport and Midway Airport, a goal he views as more attainable than his predecessor’s dream of an express train to O’Hare.
City Clerk yanks stickers over gang sign flap despite mom’s plea
Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza is axing the controversial winning design for the 2012-13 city sticker, saying it could be “misconstrued” as including gang signs. Mendoza said the move was necessary because Chicago communities and lives suffer from gang violence. “I cannot ask drivers to put a sticker on their cars that may be misconstrued as containing gang symbols,” Mendoza said. Earlier Wednesday, the mother of the 15-year-old boy at the center of the controversy mounted an emotional defense of her son and his sticker design: “It has nothing to do with gangs.”
Reputed Cicero mob boss Michael ‘The Large Guy’ Sarno gets 25 years
Reputed Cicero mob boss Michael “The Large Guy” Sarno was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday for ordering the bombing of a Berwyn business over video poker territory as well as running a robbery crew that shot and stabbed its way across several states.
Elevator company vows to discipline workers guilty of racial harassment
ThyssenKrupp, the elevator company accused of racial harassment by a former employee, will take “disciplinary actions” against supervisors or other workers who acted inappropriately, the company’s president promised Wednesday.
Homicide suspect caught, daughter found safe in Chicago
An Amber Alert issued for a 2-year-old Wisconsin girl has been canceled after the girl and her father were found in Chicago. Iryana K. Vaughn, 2, was abducted about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday in the 900 block of Racine Street in Racine, Wis., according to the …
- Race still matters, nonprofit leader says
- Nuns fight strip club next to convent in Stone Park
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- The Bean is about to become even more fun
- Koschman attorneys want transcripts of investigator interviews released
- 911 calls from Frankies show confusion, concern
- Accused murderer’s lawyers want to talk with Jennifer Hudson
- City clerk investigates: Does city sticker have gang signs?
- South Holland woman accused of embezzling from south suburban condo associations
- Judge: Teen in reckless driving case can’t go to the Grammys
- Fourth child in past three months dies from falling TV
- Quinn wants $2 billion in state Medicaid cuts
- Emanuel, Preckwinkle tout $20 million saved in city-county partnership
- Sen. Kirk’s brain swelling subsides; doctors reattach skull section
- Video poker king gets three-plus years in prison
- Shattered beer tap handle leads to lawsuit against local brewery
- Cardinal changes Pfleger’s role; new duties outside St. Sabina’s
- Company accused of racially hostile workplace offers apology
- Teacher charged with sexually abusing student at Orland Park high school
- Firefighters extinguish North Side blaze
- Woman, 77, injured in South Loop high-rise fire
- Rescuers vacuum sand to free man trapped in Naperville silo
- Ald. Beale helped trim cab reforms after campaign fund-raiser
- The ‘blackface’ workplace: ‘I never felt more alone in my life’
- Where’s the snow? Texas town has more this winter than Chicago
- Man who cut baby from mother’s womb can argue he didn’t get fair trial
- Tobacco shop, wholesaler sue county over new tax
- Marathon registration beats record — closed in 6 days
- Naperville school breaks news of teacher’s death to students
- Sen. Kirk upgraded to ‘good’ condition, watched Super Bowl
- Asian refugee has no right to son she abandoned, judge rules
- Chicago cabbie pleads guilty in terror case
- Gov. Quinn signs bill to allow speed cameras near schools, parks
- Son’s death in wrong-way I-80 wreck latest tragedy for family
- Preckwinkle has had morgue investigator for a year
- Warrants issued for Dominick’s wife, nephew
- No more city work for top Emanuel aide’s spouse
- Dad: Burglars stole van used for disabled teen
- Chicago museum hosting memorial for Cornelius
- Foster parent, former religious publisher charged with abusing two girls
- Romney rolls in Nevada
- Mayor mum on alleged racially hostile workplace at ThyssenKrupp
- National Guard sergeant surprises girlfriend big-time
- Super Bowl expected to set aerial record — at Indy airports
- Driver killed in Indiana Toll Road crash
- ‘Thank you for saving my life,’ fire victim says to cops
- This chicken wing treat takes the cake
- Family tells of settlement with city over police abuse
- Both sides file lawsuits in flap over city pension fund investments
- Emanuel poll shows Chicagoans happy with the job he’s doing
- Paralyzed teen on shooter: ‘I hate what he did but I don’t hate him’
- Police: School bus driver drove kids while drunk
- Five in custody after Northwest Side bank robbery
- Political unity evading third airport backers
- Seventh-grader brings loaded gun to Aurora middle school
- Pilsen man accused of brutal Bucktown rape out on bond
- Wisconsin GOP leader admits he’s packing heat in state Assembly
- Riley Fox’s father rewards tipster who led to her killer
- Wife on husband’s killer: ‘I hope he kills himself in jail’
- Son says ‘Soul Train’’s Don Cornelius called him shortly before his death
- Governor Spice: Quinn eats spoonful of cinnamon in on-air challenge
- Metra cancels two trains, others slowed after freight train derailment
- Chaos at overcrowded W. Side club
- Man charged with DUI in wrong-way crash that critically injured 2 on Stevenson
- Man killed, teen girl wounded on South Side
- Woman dies on 110th birthday
- CPS spends millions on workers for unused sick and vacation days
- Some CPS parents worry longer day will hurt special college prep courses
- Prosecutor Alvarez creates team to probe wrongful conviction claims
- Man faces felony DUI charges in fire engine crash
- Biggert clears the field in GOP congressional primary
- ThyssenKrupp coming to Chicago with 100 jobs as American cuts
- Wrigley Building on track for landmark status
- 2 teens accused of putting noose on black teen charged with hate crime
- August trial date for alleged family killer Christopher Vaughn
- Father-son owners of Elgin strip club charged with tax evasion
- Drug trial for ex-Bears receiver Hurd set for April 2
- Emanuel names Paula Wolff to head City Colleges board
- Top state court gives convicted rapist hearing on Burge torture claim
- Police SUV involved in crash in Old Town
- Fog advisory issued for west, south suburbs
- Red, Brown and Purple Lines delayed
- City wants public’s input on arts, culture
- Emanuel administration puts brakes on cabbies’ call for fare hearing
- Police report left out that attacker in bar beating was a cop
- Congressional race fund-raising shows Jackson and Halvorson competitive
- Students find Brizard’s teaching style out of this world
- Cicero fires town president’s nephew charged with stealing beer in Cicero car
- Police warn of strongarm robberies of women on Northwest Side
- Shorewood man convicted of having child porn on his computer
- State of the State Highlights
- Truly in love? Propose while in the water with the Shedd’s belugas
- Shooting suspect tries to escape through police ceiling: prosecutors
- Teen fatally shot by Calumet City police was autistic
- Hung jury in murder trial for man accused in Johnsburg teen’s 2002 disappearance
- Pullman would get national historic park status under Rep. Jackson proposal
- Quinn’s State of State address gets cool reception from legislators
- 18-year-old charged with DUI after crash with fire engine
- New city ward boundaries to take effect in 2015 for elections, officials say
- Crystal Lake couple picks baby’s name with help of Facebook poll
- Chicago-bound Amtrak train strikes vehicle near Ann Arbor
- Red Line trains resumes after reports of smoke in subway
- Pedestrian killed in Mount Prospect collision
- Timuel Black a historian — and part of civil rights history
- New ward map leaves a lot in limbo
- Gov. Quinn: Boost low-income college grants by tens of millions
- Four firefighters among nine people hurt in Far South Side crash
- University endowments beginning to regain recession losses
- Marathon sign-up: Now, rather than later
- Occupy U.: Roosevelt offers class on social movement
- Alvarez: No special prosecutor needed in Koschman case
- Ex-cop, four others guilty of participating in drug crew
- Teen who allegedly Tasered cop held on $300,000 bail
- Metra riders rush to buy passes before 25 percent fare hike
- Jury deliberating fate of man accused of killing Johnsburg teen in 2002
- Four injured in partial building collapse on the South Side
- What will Navy Pier look like in the future?
- Disability-parking abuse crackdown targets meter cheaters in Loop
- Failed insulator blamed in Byron nuclear plant shut down
- Hobart, Ind., man dies in accident at U.S. Steel’s Gary Works
- Is this winter or spring? Neither. It’s Chicago
- Man charged with using Taser on cop
- Two dead in apparent murder-suicide in Oak Lawn
- Nationwide cutback in government jobs; Illinois down for years
- Small earthquake shakes McHenry County
- Public tells Quinn to halt speed-enforcement cameras
- State mulls ban on shark fins
- Former Survivor member sues Newt Gingrich for using ‘Eye of the Tiger’
- FBI investigating suspicious material found at Israeli consulate in Loop
- Riverside 15-year-old charged with fighting cops twice in a week
- Evanston mayor revokes liquor license of popular bar The Keg
- More homicides this January than last, but crime down overall
- Three firms to refund $34 million in TIF subsidies
- Harvey couple mark 70 years of marriage
- McCarthy: It’s good to record officers
- Man says accused murderer bragged he could make people ‘disappear’
- Preckwinkle to meet with worried ministers about morgue mess
- Sen. Mark Kirk upgraded to fair condition
- Metra fare increases begin Wednesday
- Ebony founder being honored with black heritage stamp
- Five escape watery ditch after I-57 rollover crash
- State action urged to stop pension debt from ballooning
- Dad accused of child abuse thanks church for help
- The judge, the madam and the babies she ‘bought’
- Warm send-off for future GI
- Teens migrating to Twitter — sometimes for privacy
- Dad charged with taping baby thanks church
- Chinatown parade celebrates 100th anniversary and new year
- Veterans art museum seeks new home
- Increases in grocery prices slowing
- Demand for Web, TV content drives bills for wireless, TV service
- Heating bills bucking upward trend
- Higher taxicab costs not going away
- Prices jump in food, transportation, other everyday costs
- Man jumps or falls to death from moving vehicle on Dan Ryan
- Autopsy: Woman found in unheated home died from cold
- Canopy placed at historic Loop building after terra cotta falls
- Man robs Roscoe Village bank branch
- Officer bitten, scratched by woman during arrest
- Jackson to Brewer: ‘Keep your finger in your pocket’
- Car rolls over on I-80 after driver shot in head
- Thirteen wounded in citywide shootings Friday and Saturday
- State Rep. Franks blasts Quinn’s office on alleged misconduct by ex-DCFS chief
- Medical examiner’s budget 25 percent less than when Preckwinkle took office
- The Rev. Roosevelt Watkins III’s Full Statement
- Minister in ‘rent-a-protester’ flap offers to open his books
- Crew member from shipwrecked Italian cruise files suit in Chicago
- Cicero mayor’s nephew stole beer using Cicero car: cops
- Woman injured trying to stop couple from stealing her car at Gurnee mall
- Debris falling from Loop building prompts street closure
- Sister of murder victim Holly Staker charged with attempted robbery
- Man caught trying to remove boot with hammer, wrench
- Hull House closes after more than 120 years
- Man gets 35 years for killing Hanover Park dollar-store clerk in 2008
- Woman, two others, chase down robber in River North
- Three women sneak into Wrigley and sit on field
- Bond reduced for dad accused of taping up daughter and posting pic
- How’s that cabbie driving? Call 311 to report it, stickers urge
- State investigating problems at morgue
- Jesse Jackson joins fray over Grammy cuts, raises possibility of boycott
- UIC gymnast charged with felony for pouring boiling water on dog, prosecutors say
- Cops: Man sought fathers on Craigslist ‘willing to share their daughters’
- $30,000 bond for high school student who bit cop three times
- Alderman wants to keep social media on during NATO/G8
- School bus tips over in Kane County, sends 10 to hospitals
- Students injured in west suburban bus crash
- Gov. Quinn to propose raising minimum age to drop out of school to 18
- Two girls, sheriff’s deputy injured when squad collides with school bus
- City’s new ward map looks like jigsaw puzzle — so now it is one
- Museums exhibit little attendance growth
- Gangs using social media to spread violence
- Teen charged with biting cop during lunchtime brawl at West Side school
- Jeff Fort’s relative sentenced to 14 years; wife claims FBI vendetta
- Joliet man hits goal of losing 200 pounds
- Zalewski. Quinn. Sposato. Mell. Burke. New Hispanic leaders?
- Statue commemorating children’s deaths stolen from elementary school
- Orland Park rape suspect deemed mentally fit to stand trial
- Authorities: Hate crime took place in home of state’s attorney’s employee
- Jury finds man guilty of killing Chicago police officer
- Lincoln Park Zoo isn’t amused by chimps in Super Bowl commercial
- Parents cite growing opposition to longer school day
- Key witness said he and accused murderer never planned to kill Johnsburg teen
- Satellite dish crackdown advances in City Council
- Country Club Hills man charged in University Park murder
- Panel suggests $1 increase in license-plate fee
- Kirk undergoes more surgery to relieve brain swelling
- Preckwinkle on county morgue mess: People will ‘lose their jobs’
- Elderly mobster guilty in planned break-in at mob boss’ home
- Shedd Aquarium adopts orphaned sea otter
- Cabbies complain Rahm left them at the curb
- 3 white teens accused of putting noose around black teen’s neck
- New CPS health chief goes to work — before she even got the job
- School watchdog probes reports of paid protesters
- Poll: Duckworth still far ahead in congressional primary
- Easier process to fire county medical examiner proposed
- Gun owner ID cards soar in Chicago
- Dying man survives cross-country journey home to western suburb
- Analysis: Why Chicago library commissioner had to go
- Mount Carmel grad, Beverly native killed in avalanche in Colorado
- 20-acre Grant Park site to feature hills, climbing areas, skate ‘ribbon’
- Dining, sporting, academic events to dovetail with NATO/G-8 summits
- Accused cop killer won’t take the stand
- New commissioner wants to ‘re-envision what libraries look like’
- Florida man gets 20 years for luring disabled Frankfort girl into sex
- Two human skulls found in far northwest suburb
- Police: Would-be Rally’s robber killed by eatery worker
- Business leader asks for more retail security during NATO and G-8 summits
- Illinois abortions at record low
- Pit bulls attack two people in Elmhurst
- Trial opens in death of McHenry County teen whose body has never been found
- Secretary of State launches ethics probe of Ald. Beale’s wife
- New law requires more details on school report cards
- Ministers call paying protesters unusual
- Man wins $25 million for wrongful conviction in 1993 slaying
- Madigan speaks out on ups and downs with Illinois governors
- After 8 years, South Side Wal-Mart supercenter to open
- Gas meter theft leaves Elgin family in the cold
- Judge refuses new trial for longtime power broker William Cellini
- Loop violin shop owner files suit against anonymous online critic
- Cops: Indiana sailor asked girlfriend to molest 3-year-old, send him photos
- Bolingbrook man gets 7 years for stabbing
- Curie High School student struck by semi in ‘very serious’ condition
- Teens in videotaped Bridgeport beating placed on electronic monitoring
- Three captured after home invasion in Norwood Park
- Sen. Mark Kirk doing better — asks for Blackberry
- Sen. Mark Kirk has stroke, could have problems with left arm, leg
- Cook County to apply for new cameras in the courtroom experimental program
- Disabled freight train delays Metra trains in Joliet area
- State probes alleged child neglect after 2 kids die in fire
- Girl, 3, and boy, 2, killed in Far South Side fire
- Man charged in fatal stabbing
- Sailor charged with asking his former girlfriend to molest a 3-year-old child
- Two say they got paid to protest, back closing Chicago schools
- Zion’s mayor returns to City Hall
- Sauk Village trustees lock police chief out — literally
- Emanuel raps state scholarship perk that went to Ald. Beale’s daughter
- Illinois to allow courtroom cameras on ‘experimental basis’
- Art Institute of Chicago plans to increase docents
- Father says son’s death in salt-truck accident didn’t have to happen
- The night before stroke hit, Kirk enjoyed beer, cheeseburger and banter
- City watchdog accuses Emanuel administration of stymying probes
- Trial begins for man accused of killing Chicago Police officer in 2008
- About Mark Kirk
- Ex-Illini Jereme Richmond pleads guilty to gun charge, gets probation
- Illinois officials react to Mark Kirk’s stroke
- Son gets 40 years for killing mom over Avril Lavigne tickets
- Mayor and top cop target Englewood and Harrison police districts in crackdown
- Sen. Mark Kirk doing better — asks for Blackberry
- Woman dies after being struck by car in Elgin
- Dense fog advisory issued, rain on the way
- 18 displaced after West Side fire
- Missing Rogers Park man found dead in Key West
- Man fatally shoots himself at Schaumburg bar
- Mandatory elementary recess in plan for Chicago Public Schools
- Chicago Police Cmdr. John Kupczyk suffered heart attack off-duty
- Police board fires seven officers
- Four teens charged in CTA robbery
- Newt needs a lesson about Saul Alinsky
- Kristin Cavallari, Jay Cutler expecting baby
- Church keeps the faith with four-lane bowling alley
- Off-duty police commander dies of heart attack
- Cop car joy-rider: ‘I am not a horrible person’
- Emanuel announces plan to reopen libraries on Mondays
- Protesters yell at Rahm over mental health budget cuts
- Ex-coach Joe Paterno’s health takes a turn for the worse
- Man suspected of robbing fourth bank in Wicker Park
- Volo man killed in snowmobile crash
- Contract negotiations for teachers start
- Crystal Lake Marine killed in Afghanistan
- Fewer teens desperate to drive — is the Internet the reason?
- After nail removed from brain, suburban man jokes
- ‘Handicap This!’ show featuring Mike Berkson, Tim Wambach dispels myths of cerebral palsy with humor
- Walgreens shooting suspect found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound
- New photo book documents reversing flow of Chicago River
- Four hours to get home? A sample of Friday evening’s traffic times
- Murder trial of missing McHenry County teen could prove tough for prosecutors
- Judge say he’ll rule Tuesday on Cellini retrial
- FBI tapes capture senior cititzen suspects alleged crime talk — and senior moments
- Fleeing driver who injured Chicago cop with car gets 7 years
- Rosewood Beach in Highland Park in line for major overhaul
- Elgin man gets 15 years for molesting four girls
- Current traffic conditions on Chicago-area roads
- Preckwinkle sends staff to fix morgue problems
- Foul play not suspected in deaths of two men found in Elmwood Park home
- Woman gets 7 years for heroin overdose death of sister-in-law
- Suburban man punches sprinkler at River North nightclub, makes it rain
- Legendary blues singer Etta James dies at 73 from leukemia complications
- 5 Chicago restaurants snag top rating from AAA
- Signal trouble leads to CTA delays, reroutes Friday morning
- Man, 70, dies in Uptown blaze
- Metra derailment means major delays for north suburban commuters
- Warm-up coming after snow causes hellish commute, delay of Blackhawks game
- Man, 79, dies in apartment fire
- State: Tinley Pk. Mental Health Center closing
- Proposal: Shift tax exemption power for Lollapalooza, other events, to county
- Court hears tapes of ‘The Monk’ at trial
- ‘Un-freaking-believable’: fiance says Orland man recovering from nail in his brain
- Abdul-Jabbar named U.S. global cultural ambassador
- Emanuel says South Carolina primary doesn’t matter, Romney will be nominee
- Ward remap brings cheers and tears from residents
- After 120 years, Jane Addams’ Hull House Association to close
- 11-time surfing champ Slater says Chicago regulates waves ‘like a police state’
- Preckwinkle fires back, defends jail policy to U.S. immigration chief
- No popcorn party, but will Drew Peterson watch Lifetime movie about him?
- Chicago man busted for posing as guard at a ‘family party’
- City expected to settle case with one group of 2003 war protesters
- Mom charged after child drives SUV into hotdog stand, injuring 1
- Heckling, sex jokes — and a little politics — at Axelrod’s U. of C. event
- Hundreds of guns stolen from Des Plaines gun shop; four teens charged
- Waste-hauling firm pays city $11 million for minority contract ‘shortfalls’
- Will County official takes airport fight to Quinn: ‘You will not dump on us’
- Man held in West Side robberies, assaults
- Entire building stolen for scrap
- St. Sabina’s Pfleger takes on ‘The Bachelor’ for degrading women
- Trial set for man accused of killing singer Jennifer Hudson’s family
- Court: Ex-con can sue Illinois prison officer over sheared dreadlocks
- Aldermen OK ward remap with enough votes to avoid referendum (map)
- Preckwinkle: Medical examiner standing in way of fixing morgue problems
- U. of I. tuition to rise 4.8 percent; total costs now top $24k
- 6 inches of snow possible Friday
- Private-sector lobbyists stand to collect public-sector pensions
- Third man convicted in slaying of 10-year-old girl
- Cops bust man catching waves at Oak Street Beach
- Preckwinkle wants independent probe of juvenile detention death
- Historian Timuel Black’s ‘incredibly varied’ papers now open to public viewing
- Attorney General Lisa Madigan sues Westwood College over its accreditation
- City Council on late S-T leader Jim Tyree: `We shall not see his like again.’
- No jail time for ex-Rosemont paramedic who said Ambien made him drink and drive
- Second life sentence for Chicago man who killed cell mate at Stateville
- License owners, not dogs? Alderman wants to tighten leash
- Chicago cop guilty of reckless homicide, DUI in death of cyclist
- Emanuel to South Side Irish parade: March on!
- Bianchi lawsuit alleges ‘consipracy’ to drive him from office
- City Council approves Rahm’s watered-down NATO/G-8 rules
- Judge’s brother held without bail in deaths of sister and brother-in-law
- Aldermen pay tribute to Maggie Daley, tell how she used to put ex-mayor in his place
- Judge ignores man’s Facebook posts, gives him jail time for reckless homicide
- Logan Square school evacuated after gas leak
- Firefighters battling large blaze on West Side
- Applications to Northwestern hit new high
- Elderly jewel thief pleads guilty to racketeering in Chicago
- Dad of teen held in videotaped beating: ‘What he did was wrong’
- Villa Park man ‘grazed’ by freight train
- 7 teens charged in brutal Bridgeport beating captured on YouTube video
- Cook County judge’s brother charged in deaths of sister and brother-in-law
- Zion mayor misses 6th-straight meeting
- Pit bull victim: It was ‘like I was hamburger’
- Former South Side Congressman Derwinski dies at 85
- Two men convicted in gang shooting that killed 10-year-old girl
- Suburban cruise survivor compares disaster to movie ‘Titanic’
- Elderly theft suspects expected to plead guilty, sources say
- Rahm Emanuel backs off stiff fines for G-8, NATO protesters
- Mother of woman killed in high-rise fire sues building management
- One CTA station project finished, three more in the works
- Jury sent home in case of cop accused of fatally running over a teen cyclist
- City to pay $525,000 after cops beat autistic teen at family’s restaurant
- County Commissioner Gorman cleared of campaign finance allegations
- Four Englewood men won’t be retried for 1994 rape and murder
- $1 Chicago cab fuel charge now permanent
- 7 teens charged in Bridgeport beating captured on video
- Jackson and Halvorson release competing polls in congressional race
- Judge rules Wheaton mother who abandoned newborn unfit to raise him
- Suspect said he needed handcuff key to ‘hold the steering wheel right’
- NIU’s Cole Hall, site of deadly 2008 shootings, reopens
- Killer of four left suicide note saying he was distraught
- 3 to 5 inches of snow possible in north suburbs
- Rahm Emanuel softens his taxi overhaul
- Brutal Bridgeport beating captured on YouTube video
- Protesters vow to ‘save’ school from take over by ‘politically connected’ operator
- NIU to reopen building, site of 2008 shooting spree
- G-8 protest organizer agent of ‘change’ or ‘pain in the butt’?
- New DuSable Museum exhibit shows off history — quilt by quilt
- Dog saves fellow pooch from owl attack
- City Council factions finally agree on new ward map
- Jailed man now facing charges he failed to register as sex offender
- Woman charged with kidnapping West Side woman, breaking her nose
- Cubs to seek city approval for Wrigley Field changes
- Wrong-way driver nearly hits state trooper
- The Watchdogs: Not a city employee, ex-Sen. Marovitz denied a city pension
- Mount Prospect man’s parents missing in Italian cruise ship disaster
- Chicago Tribune to offer buyouts for newsroom employees
- Mom can’t deal with 6-month-old, leaves him at West Side firehouse
- Citizens Utility Board offers tips on saving cash
- Warmup will be brief; freezing rain and snow in the forecast
- Vehicle kills woman in hit-and-run
- Occupy draws on MLK’s legacy
- Rev. Jesse Jackson sleeping on floor at shelter
- Girl, 4, killed when television falls on her
- Three people injured in collision with fire truck
- Parents’ fight for integration failed, but paved way for change
- Family says teen who died at juvy center shouldn’t have been playing ball
- Chicago’s Field Museum to display rare mummies
- Burglar ties up residents at North Side home — then takes their photo
- Chicago lawyers call on Obama to close Guantanamo
- ‘Rocky’ Clark remembered for being inspirational
- ‘Oh, Lord’: Not everyone happy about return of South Side St. Patrick’s Day parade
- Fliers leave thousands in change behind at airports
- Man dies in ‘suspicious’ fire, police investigating
- 2 dead, 4 critically hurt in Little Village rollover
- ‘Sacrilegious’ — bodies piling up at Cook County morgue
- Judge rules technology blogger has no right to shield confidential source
- Have furbearer license? Roadkill now your right
- Woman acquitted of eavesdropping charges for recording cops sues city
- Two suburban women die after shoveling snow
- It’s back: South Side Irish Parade to return
- Catholic school enrollment
- Captured Sinaloa cartel ‘Engineer’ revealed as defendant in Chicago case
- ‘Nanny cam’ leads to bust of woman abusing twins: police
- Judge to decide if woman who abandoned newborn gets baby back
- Man’s Facebook posts could be used against him in reckless homicide case
- Blackhawks fan tells sportscaster Sarah Kustok he loves her — on live TV
- Cop in deadly hit-and-run: I was too stunned to stop
- Police: Man videotaped ex-girlfriend, threatened to post footage on YouTube
- Union chief: Emanuel should ask business donors to solve library problem
- Two charged with manufacturing ‘Charley Sheene’ bath salts
- Brother of slain shopkeeper sorry he helped bring him from Korea to Chicago
- ‘No immediate threat’ of low-level radiation from Bed, Bath and Beyond tissue box holders
- Best enrollment news for city Catholic schools since 1965
- Starlin Castro: I’ve ‘fully cooperated’ in sex assault probe
- Red Line trains delayed by fire in Near North Side station
- Traffic diverted around South Loop gas leak
- State treasurer leasing apartment from company linked to Cellini family
- Youth testifies he heard gunshots, then felt blood on leg
- Tax appeals board challenger accuses incumbent of electioneering
- Deputy U.S. Marshal indicted, charged with assaulting suspects
- Federal immigration chief: Cook County jail policy may be illegal
- Admitted crooks lied about ex-cop’s role in robbery, kidnapping ring: lawyer
- Tinley Park man gets probation for sex with 13-year-old girl
- Downstate man gets 20 years for sex with New Lenox teenager
- Jurors for accused killer Christopher Vaughn may see late wife’s emails, chats
- Woman gets four years for stealing $100K from Naperville rental housing company
- City: Local taxpayers won’t pay $40-$65 million NATO, G-8 tab
- U. of I. to set tuition next week; housing costs to rise
- Send us your photos: Winter's first snow
- Sand mine near Starved Rock draws ire of some
- Slippery conditions persist after first snowfall slaps area
- Feds: Aurora man part of massive Puerto Rican ID theft ring
- Emanuel wants public’s ideas on keeping pols honest
- NW Ind. police remove 55 dogs from old farmhouse
- Close call at Midway being investigated
- Recruit dies in boot camp at Great Lakes
- Downtown will be on lockdown during NATO, G-8 summits
- One costly gumball, a mugshot for the ages and a crafty cell phone thief
- Off-duty cop after allegedly hitting teen while drunk: ‘Oh man, look at my car’
- Several bit as 55 dogs seized from Northwest Indiana home
- Interim North Chicago police chief quits after just six days
- Navy recruit dies after training at Great Lakes naval station
- CPS offers schools $100,000 bonuses for great longer-day ideas
- Obama: ‘Everything that we fought for is now at stake in this election’
- Number of sickened Bob Chinn’s diners up to 50, expected to rise
- Two dead, one hurt in Mundelein apparent murder-suicide
- Judge rejects new trial for Steger man who killed boy in DUI
- Black Caucus chairman predicts City Council agreement on remap
- Monee man gets 3 1/2 years for molesting 6-year-old girl
- Entire ATM swiped from Beverly credit union
- Man on the lam after stealing, crashing squad while handcuffed
- Police: Man fatally shot on South Side
- Chicago weather: 4 to 8 inches of snow coming
- Correctional center inmate dies
- Police: Confused woman drives car to edge of pier at Montrose Harbor
- Feds: Ex-cop was crew’s ‘guardian angel’
- Emanuel wants to build $485,000 wheelchair ramp at City Hall — quickly
- Lombard man wins $1 million lottery prize — for second time in a decade
- Feds: Send Latin King gang leader to prison for 60 years
- Ald. Burke, Reilly urge library workers to forgo raise to avert Monday closing
- Classes to resume at Zion-Benton High School after strike ends
- Firefighter hospitalized in blaze that destroyed Harvey bar
- Train crash responders sickened, likely from food they were served
- Moderate pot use doesn’t appear to harm lungs: 20-year study
- Former Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke hurt in car accident
- Obama coming to Chicago Wednesday to raise cash through concert, parties
- Police suspect arson in string of Plainfield fires
- Metra says ‘we are sorry’ for Monday’s delays at Union Station
- Cop wasn’t drunk when he killed bicyclist, 13, attorney says
- Witness: 10-year-old girl was unintended target of gang shooting
- First significant snowfall likely Thursday
- ‘Doomsday Clock’ moved one minute closer to ‘midnight’
- Rahm Emanuel defends Daley’s tenure as Obama’s chief of staff
- Chicago woman gets 30 years for 2009 beating death of Joliet man
- Services set for Rocky Clark
- Coyote Logistics to add 400 jobs in Chicago, help City Colleges
- Fisherman thanks Chicago firefighter who saved him
- South Shore rail moves toward fare increase
- Quinn signs earned-income tax credit law
- Deal set to end Zion-Benton teachers strike









