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Gov. Pat Quinn on pension mess: ‘Everything is on the table’
Gov. Pat Quinn took his case for a budgetary crash diet directly to state lawmakers Wednesday, pushing a grim assortment of prison closures and spending cuts in a spending plan that he said was built around “hard realities.”
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Rahm Emanuel: Tammy Duckworth is my pick in Dem primary
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel endorsed former Veterans Administration official Tammy Duckworth Wednesday for a northwest suburban congressional seat. In 2006, when Emanuel spearheaded the Democrats’ effort to elect members of Congress, Duckworth’s was the race he probably worked hardest on, though she lost to Republican …
Judy Biggert will have a GOP opponent after all
Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Hinsdale, will not be able to waltz in as the Republican nominee for a new congressional district connecting Aurora and Joliet. Kane County Clerk Jack Cunningham has been ruled back on the ballot after earlier being thrown off because a dyslexic volunteer …
Gov. Quinn’s list of state facilities to close
Here are the state facilities the governor has targeted for closure. Adult prisons: Tamms Correctional Center Dwight Correctional Center Halfway houses Crossroads Chicago Westside, Chicago Fox Valley, Aurora Decatur Peoria Southern Illinois, Carbondale Department of Juvenile Justice Juvenile detention centers Illinois Youth Center, Joliet Illinois …
Mother of boy, 13, killed by cop in wreck tells judge she misses son
Three weeks after he was killed in a hit-and-run crash involving a drunken Chicago Police officer, Trenton Booker’s mother sadly glimpsed the empty chair that the always smiling 13-year-old was supposed to sit in for his 8th grade graduation. “Instead of me being able to …
City boasts it’s filling potholes within 2 1/2 days of hearing about them
Chicago’s never-ending war on potholes may not be so never-ending after all.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration boasted Wednesday that it has eliminated the 9,000-pothole backlog the mayor inherited when he took office in mid-May and now is “keeping pace with daily” requests to fill potholes. …
Lawyer: Man rammed ex-wife’s car, shot her six times in self defense
Jerry L. Hudson of Bolingbrook is on trial in DuPage County on charges he murdered his ex-wife, Melissa Bridgewater, outside an Oak Brook hotel on Jan. 1, 2010.
Fewer restaurants interested in shorter Taste of Chicago
Chicago restaurants are not exactly chomping at the bit to participate in Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to shrink and revamp the Taste of Chicago. Only 40 restaurants applied to participate for the five-day festival, prompting the city to extend Tuesday’s deadline until Friday.
Violent sex offender charged in flower shop robbery, stabbing
A man with a history of sexual offenses was ordered held on $500,000 bond Wednesday on charges alleging he choked a Wicker Park flower shop employee into unconsciousness before stabbing her repeatedly.
Man charged with shooting cop in hand held without bail
A South Side man was ordered held without bail Wednesday for shooting and injuring a Chicago Police officer over the weekend. Cortez Ross, 21, of the 4300 block of South Champlain, is facing attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery charges. Prosecutors said at 4 p.m. …
Judge: Park Ridge man’s widow can sue over fatal bear mauling
A federal judge in Cheyenne, Wyo., has rejected the federal government’s claim that it can’t be sued over the fatal bear mauling of a Park Ridge man near Yellowstone National Park.Erwin F. Evert — a 70-year-old botanist who had lived with his wife in a …
Car hits building after rowdy passenger grabs wheel
A vehicle plowed into a building in the Northwest Side Logan Square neighborhood early Wednesday after an intoxicated passenger apparently grabbed the wheel. The crash happened about 2 a.m. in the 2400 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, police News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said, citing …
Woman charged with DUI after wrong-way crash on Kennedy
Two people were hurt in an apparent wrong-way crash Wednesday morning on the outbound Kennedy Expressway.
Substitute teacher fired for duct-taping Naperville student’s hands
A veteran Indian Prairie School District 204 substitute teacher was fired for ordering a student at Graham Elementary School in Naperville to bind his own wrists with duct tape, authorities said.
Field Museum exhibit puts Genghis Khan’s modern-day progeny in the millions
Genghis Khan was a lover and a fighter.
The 13th century Mongolian warlord made his reputation on the battlefield. But with more than 16 million men throughout Asia currently carrying a Y-chromosome believed to descend from him, he apparently also had quite the reputation with …
Daley pal lands new city contract
A clout-heavy contractor who made millions from former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s affinity for wrought-iron fences has been awarded a $2.7 million airport contract by Mayor Rahm Emanuel for which the company was the lone bidder.
The latest in a gravy train of city contracts …
- Oak Park residents get electric bill for nearly $108,000
- South Side gang ‘wannabe’ gets 75 years for murder of 10-year-old girl caught in crossfire
- State House OKs property tax cap for suburban homeowners
- High school student’s quick actions save choking classmate
- Police question brother in shooting of autistic boy, 14
- Gov. Pat Quinn: Close super-max downstate Tamms prison
- Emanuel: New Malcolm X College will put City Colleges ‘back on the playing field’
- Lin, Lucas wearing faith on their wrists
- Man pleads guilty to 2010 fatal hit-and-run accident in Aurora
- Robert Shaw hospitalized after fall
- Autistic teen dies in fall down Gold Coast high-rise trash chute
- Chicago Police horses will also get riot gear for NATO/G-8 summits
- Toughest challenge of Jackson’s political career
- From high school dropout to top of the Fire Department ladder
- Man cited with DUI in fatal crash with CTA bus, beer truck
- Man on bike falls into Streamwood pond
- Melee ensues at Elgin nightclub after band switch
- In the age of Wii, video game fan opens classic arcade
- Man drowns in retirement community pool in Grayslake
- Batavia sheepdog wins ‘Best in Breed’ honor at Westminster dog show
- Stretch of I-57 named for Tuskegee Airmen
- Police cite funeral home with failing to properly care for human remains
- DNA evidence leads to arrest in year-old rape case
- Person critically hurt in fall down stairs at CTA station
- McHenry County man falls through ice in front of son, dies
- Man accused of having gun in carry-on bag at Midway
- 5 questions for Quinn on next budget
- Living donor kidney transplant chain brings recipients ‘back to life’
- Top cop’s declaration of war has Maniac Latin Disciples reeling
- Two people killed, five others wounded in South Side shooting
- Off-duty cop shoots person in car at Fermilab
- 1 dead, 2 injured in accident near NIU campus
- Trying to get zoo animals to breed is both art, science
- Man plunges to death from Gold Coast building
- Sources: Judge took 206 sick days
- Parents end ‘occupation’ of school after promised meeting with CPS leaders
- Suit: Tribune failed to pay overtime to reporters
- Officers rescue man and his dog from lake
- Candidate declares she is only ‘legit’ Madigan opponent
- Man critically injured in Uptown fire, 12 displaced
- Man struck and killed on Dan Ryan
- Neighborhood taverns drying up across Chicago
- NIU prof delivers book on bike messengers
- Parents occupy school, demand to talk with Rahm
- Cook County chief judge defends sick day use by judges
- Vandal at Detroit museum damages Chicago World’s Fair clock
- Activists: City wrong for turning woman over to immigration agents
- Kristin Cavallari on Jay Cutler: ‘He’s gonna be a great dad!’
- Man taking firefighter ability test has heart attack and is saved by firefighters
- Fire erupts on roof of old Post Office building
- Foes of Jackson airport group seize on ties to Libya
- Report: Chicago News Cooperative to shut down Feb. 26
- Alleged Burge torture victim wants to sue city, despite earlier settlement
- Ex-McDonald’s boss to be McPier chairman
- Kirk walking on treadmill; doctors ‘pleased with progress’
- Police: Woman on cell phone ran red light, hit police car
- ‘Poor little Jason’ guilty in 2009 Channahon murder
- Congress approves payroll tax cut, sending measure to Obama
- Court: Chicago teachers don’t have rehire rights
- Missing Aurora woman, children, may have been in Indiana
- Stevie Wonder and Earvin “Magic” Johnson among hundreds honoring Don Cornelius
- Women tell of links between Gacy friend and victim
- Teacher sues CPS after suspension for slur during ‘teachable moment’
- Museum chronicles African-American labor movement
- Sugar-drink tax to get Chicagoans, budget in shape?
- Sides bicker over whether to bring back South Side parade
- Non-union CPS employees to get paid maternity and sick leave
- Police use stolen Apple MacBook’s tracking software to find it
- Four youths rescued after falling into frozen pond in north suburb
- New Cook County website to make it easier to get property tax info
- Will County Board pays tribute to late member Frank Stewart
- Will County Board gives initial approval to mosque near Aurora
- Emanuel says little on City Council push to let audience say nothing
- Gang member gets 60-year sentence in shooting of girl, 10
- Aurora woman reported missing with three young children
- Police: Missing North Barrington woman killed herself
- Lake Michigan surfer dude gets community service, stays defiant
- Chicago brothers sentenced in sham-marriage scheme
- Teachers union calls for $713 million in CPS improvements
- Man critically injured in Grand Crossing vehicle fire
- Rain, fog could hamper early morning drivers
- Man, 83, found fatally shot in his northwest Indiana home
- More than 100 dogs removed from northwest Indiana home
- Police: Gun-wielding man fatally shot by officer at hotel
- CPS on pile of unused days: Can’t take them with you
- Fire chief Robert Hoff quits as union faces contentious battle
- Fritchey drops out of 32nd Ward committeeman’s race
- Facts about the new Field Musuem exhibit
- From the vaults: Field Musuem bringing out the mummies
- Man who survived triple murder recalls living through the ordeal
- Four aldermen want to silence public in City Council meetings
- After South Holland boys dies, DCFS probes home for fifth time
- Mayor Emanuel vows to push for legalizing gay marriage
- Pizzeria robbery suspect caught — while allegedly stealing a car
- Child porn charges for Lockport man
- Channahon man arrested for sex with drunk woman outside bar
- City Council backs taking tax refunds from ticket deadbeats
- It’s official: Chicago is nation’s corruption capital
- University of Illinois president pressuring campus leaders, emails show
- Criminal Courts building to be named for pioneering black judge
- Ald. Beale: Turn off school speed cameras at 4 p.m.
- Man charged with taping up daughter, 2, can’t go to her birthday party
- Chicago man charged with murder in Park Ridge strangling death
- Obama meets Wisconsin factory workers and governor (briefly)
- Garfield Park Conservatory’s rare Double Coconut Palm dies
- Woman found in cluttered Worth home died of heart disease
- Residents unhurt when SUV careens into apartment after crash
- DePaul receives record $30 million donation
- Suspicious package near Soldier Field was just beans
- Blagojevich to serve sentence at Denver-area prison
- Niles North teacher faces sex charge
- State investigates death of 3-month old girl
- Man dies after being pulled from Chicago River
- Blagojevich to serve sentence at Colorado prison
- CPS brass cracking down on big payouts for sick days
- City advances plan to target sellers of hallucinogenic bath salts
- Democrat Joe Berrios gets punked in Valentine from political rival
- Trial opens for three men accused of brutal 2004 murders of 3
- Theis, Cunningham get high marks in state Supreme Court race
- Doctor accused of fondling patient, placed on leave from Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn
- Police have ‘person of interest’ in Park Ridge slaying
- NTSB: Deadly Cherry Valley derailment caused by failure to notify train of track washout
- Rahm Emanuel: Noble charter schools’ results speak for themselves
- Chicago clout contractor targeted in major construction fraud case
- Mayor Rahm Emanuel orders changes to program that allows aldermen to make neighborhood improvements
- Judge: Arrest in slayings of Jennifer Hudson’s family legal
- 4 life terms for Chicago doctor in oxycodone drug deaths in Ohio
- Services set for late Will County Board member Frank Stewart
- Person struck by CTA train on Near North Side
- Rosemont Theatre sells naming rights to Akoo International, Inc.
- Vibrant MSI energy exhibit helps understand options, issues
- Owe Chicago money? City could take tax refund under proposal
- Snow showers should end by nightfall, but more slush on the way
- Two women hurt in crash with snow plow
- Driver charged with DUI and reckless homicide in fatal crash with bus
- Man drowns while trying to rescue dog in Homewood
- High school basketball coach resigns over headlock
- Paramedics’ alleged mistakes in girl’s death likely to cost taxpayers
- City buys face shields to protect cops from G-8 protesters
- Noble costly mistakes
- ‘Flaming hot’ chips, gum, other ‘infractions’ costly at some schools
- DJ deadmau5 pranks Skrillex by wearing his cellphone number on T-shirt at Grammys
- Norridge man’s Matchbox car collection at 23,000 — and counting
- Contest names Aurora couple longest married in Illinois
- Baby cow with a special heart born just in time for Valentine’s Day
- Six years in prison for burglar who testified against mob
- ComEd takes storm center on the road with mobile unit
- Cougar scare near middle school
- 2 Chicago cops charged with stealing $5,200 in FBI sting
- Firefighters clear Loop HazMat with no evacuations
- Letter critical of Obama not read at every mass
- Inside team Rahm: Emanuel taps best minds in country for advice
- Teens face sex-abuse charges at high school
- Grandmother dies after blaze that killed boy, 7
- Proposed strip club to nuns: Don’t impose your religious beliefs on us
- City sticker runner-up doesn’t want design used amid controversy
- Why are some 80-plus-year-old seniors as sharp as people 30 years younger?
- Body of boy, 7, found in Roseland home hours after fire extinguished
- City employee reimbursement data now online
- Cook County Circuit Court Clerk regrouping after fire
- Police: Toddlers dropped off at wrong home
- One killed when Metra train strikes vehicle in LaGrange
- Medical marijuana grower busted on Northwest Side gets six years in prison
- Koschman family, Alvarez spar over transcripts in Daley nephew case
- North Side jewelry heist like something out of ‘Mission: Impossible’
- Jeffrey Zaslow, The Last Lecture author, killed in car crash at age 53
- Bellwood man guilty of killing girlfriend in 2009
- Sen. Kirk moved into Rehab Institute
- Are state and feds tying police grant money to DUI arrest quotas?
- Want to adopt a sidewalk? It’ll take some muscle and a snow shovel
- Suburban business turning battle vs. PTSD into a real dogfight
- Emanuel says he had nothing to do with city sticker decision
- Feds, state, county join anti-crime blitzkrieg in two violent districts
- Snow, heavy winds cancel hundreds of flights; 30 mph gusts in forecast
- Diary key evidence against man charged in 1997 murder near Downers Grove
- No bond for accused killer of teen unloading his mother’s groceries
- Bail lowered for Sandburg High School teacher charged with abusing student
- O’Hare Airport joining pre-check screening program
- Wheeling man gets 3 years in erectile-pump Medicare fraud case
- Construction worker falls into lake, pulled out by co-workers
- Woman charged in wrong-way Lake Shore Drive crash
- California memorial service for Cornelius next week
- Three injured in shooting outside Near West Side restaurant
- Conner on Obama playlist: From Jennifer Hudson to the Boss to Aretha to ELO to Ledisi
- Jury awards $1.35 million to family of man slain by police
- U of I prof to governor: End Champaign’s ‘orgiastic defilement of Saint Patrick’
- Eleven inmates released by county despite immigration detainers have reoffended
- Rahm Emanuel proposes $65 per-gun fee and registry
- Federal Reserve makes contingency plans for summits
- Boutique owners say smells from barbecue joint are smoking them out
- Man guilty of killing teen by wrongly thinking SUV had rivals
- Illinois to get $1B in mortgage deal
- Tempers flare, insults fly over Chicago public school closings
- Teen whose city sticker design was nixed will still get $1,000
- Prosecutors: Man stabbed Naperville teacher, sipped beer then walked away
- Will County Board member Frank Stewart dead at 66
- Record number of Illinois students take Advance Placement exams
- Two pedestrians struck by vehicle on Southwest Side
- 2-year-old girl hurt when dresser, TV falls on her
- 18 displaced by Albany Park fire
- 2 critically hurt in wrong-way Lake Shore crash
- One killed, two critically hurt in crash on Southwest Side near Summit
- Three killed, four critically injured in crashes overnight
- CTA Red Line service back to normal after ‘minor derailment’ in South Loop
- Spike Lee: Oscars stuck in 1940
- Study: CPS has some success turning around grammar schools, not high schools
- County board to debate controversial immigration policy
- Family of woman left in morgue for 14 months sues Cook County
- Seven years for woman who had traces of pot in system during fatal crash
- Firefighters extinguish small kitchen mishap — at their firehouse
- Emptying pockets at security checkpoint? Probably best to hang on to your pot
- Not so fast. Hold off on Crane H.S. phase-out, hearing officer urges
- Merchandise Mart pulls the plug on Art Chicago
- Mayor Emanuel: Time to speed up trains to O’Hare, Midway
- City Clerk yanks stickers over gang sign flap despite mom’s plea
- Reputed Cicero mob boss Michael ‘The Large Guy’ Sarno gets 25 years
- Elevator company vows to discipline workers guilty of racial harassment
- Does mom love him? Cops say man faked kidnapping to find out
- Homicide suspect caught, daughter found safe in Chicago
- Race still matters, nonprofit leader says
- Nuns fight strip club next to convent in Stone Park
- Legislators want to extend lottery game helping AIDS fight
- 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’
