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  • Police: Pair used stolen credit card, crashed car before arrest

    Carol Stream
    11 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    A Carol Stream man who drove his pickup into a freight train locomotive, killing his girlfriend, pleaded guilty today to aggravated driving under the influence. In a plea deal with DuPage County prosecutors, Jeffrey S. Fisher, 40, admitted to being under...

  • New Trail Open at Songbird Slough Forest Preserve

    Itasca
    8 Nov 2011 | 4:34 pm
    A Carol Stream man whose girlfriend died after his pickup truck collided with a freight train locomotive at a crossing in Itasca last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated driving under the influence. In a plea deal with DuPage County prosecutors,...

  • Shootings wound 10-year-old girl, 11 others, across city

    Chicago Breaking News
    28 Jan 2012 | 6:58 am
    At least 12 people were wounded by gunfire on the city’s South and West sides since about 8 p.m. Friday night, according to Chicago police.

  • New map would move 7% of Naperville students

    Chicagoland - chicagotribune.com
    29 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Recommendations for boundary changes expected to come in FebruaryNaperville Unit District 203 released a map of proposed new school boundaries and will begin presentations this week on the changes that could affect 1,204 students, or 7 percent of the district's student population.

  • Finish school or else

    Opinion - chicagotribune.com
    29 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Obama has the wrong remedy for dropoutsMany teenage kids regard school as the functional equivalent of prison — where they are forced to endure oppressive rules, bad food and unpleasant company. For them, Barack Obama has a message: There will be no parole.
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  • Shootings wound 10-year-old girl, 11 others, across city

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:58 am
    At least 12 people were wounded by gunfire on the city’s South and West sides since about 8 p.m. Friday night, according to Chicago police.

  • Police: Paroled felon shot himself, faces new charge

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:51 am
    A felon on parole for a 2010 gun conviction shot himself in the leg late Friday night, police said.

  • Three injured in single-car rollover

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:11 am
    Three people were injured after their car rolled over on the ramp from the Kennedy Expressway to Irving Park Road, authorities said.

  • 32-year-old man hit by car

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:46 am
    A 32-year-old man was hit by a car near the intersection of Grand and Ogden avenues in the West Town neighborhood early Saturday morning, according to police.

  • After wallet is stolen, woman chases down suspect

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:34 pm
    18-year-old man cornered, arrested in theft. 'I wanted to at least say I tried,' 50-year-old victim says.Linette Kossow's Chicago apartment has been burglarized and her email hacked. Then early Friday morning, a man on the 36/Broadway CTA bus downtown snatched her wallet from her shoulder bag and fled out the rear door.
 
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  • Finish school or else

    29 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Obama has the wrong remedy for dropoutsMany teenage kids regard school as the functional equivalent of prison — where they are forced to endure oppressive rules, bad food and unpleasant company. For them, Barack Obama has a message: There will be no parole.

  • Losing the future

    29 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Obama proposes to spend more money we don't havePresident Barack Obama knows the federal government has a big spending problem, and he is not reluctant to point it out. "The American people deserve to have their leaders come together to make the tough choices necessary to live within our means, just as American families do every day in these tough economic times," the White House said in November.

  • 10 things you might not know about salt

    29 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    you might not know about saltEvery winter, widespread chemical dumping leaves Chicago streets covered in sodium chloride. Here are 10 facts you don't have to take with a grain of salt:

  • Where did Haiti's aid go?

    29 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Two years after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Haiti killing hundreds of thousands, more than a half-million Haitians are still sleeping under tarps, often in camps without enough water or toilets. As another hurricane season approaches, many people are asking: What happened to the generous donations that Americans gave? Congress should make it easier to find out.

  • Unions losing name game in 'right' controversy

    29 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    It looks as though a high-profile right-to-freeload law about to pass in the Indiana Legislature will be the focus of protests at the Super Bowl in Indianapolis.
 
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  • Salvage crews suspend work on capsized ship

    28 Jan 2012 | 7:27 am
    GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) - Salvage crews preparing to pump thousands of tonnes of diesel fuel and oil from the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the Italian coast suspended work on Saturday after heavy seas made conditions unsafe, officials said.

  • Police search News International offices, arrest four

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:41 am
    LONDON (Reuters) - Police said on Saturday they were searching the London offices of Rupert Murdoch's News International and had arrested four people, including a policeman, in an investigation into suspected payments to police officers for information.

  • U.S., Canada secure Olympic berths

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:08 am
    (Reuters) - The United States and Canadian women's soccer teams booked their spots in this year's London Olympics with semi-final victories at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament on Friday.

  • Mistrial declared in Katrina police shootings case

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:17 pm
    NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A federal judge declared a mistrial on Friday in the case of a retired police detective accused of conspiring to cover up wrongdoing in fatal police shootings in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a lawyer for the officer said.

  • "Barefoot Bandit" gets 6.5 years of federal time

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:52 pm
    SEATTLE (Reuters) - A serial burglar nicknamed the "Barefoot Bandit" was sentenced on Friday in Seattle to 6-1/2 years in prison for his guilty plea to federal charges stemming from a sensational, two-year crime spree as a sometimes-shoeless teenage runaway.
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  • At least 12 hurt in overnight shootings

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:58 am
    At least 12 people were wounded by gunfire -- including a 10-year-old girl -- on the city’s South and West sides since about 8 p.m. Friday night, according to Chicago police.

  • Tennis: Azarenka bullies Sharapova to claim maiden major

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:26 am
    MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Victoria Azarenka became the first Belarusian to win a grand slam singles title when she claimed the Australian Open title with a crushing 6-3 6-0 victory over Russia's Maria Sharapova on Saturday.

  • Soccer: U.S. women secure Olympic berth

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:08 am
    (Reuters) - The United States and Canadian women's soccer teams booked their spots in this year's London Olympics with semi-final victories at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament on Friday.

  • Report: ComEd should pay customers for damages caused by outages

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:40 am
    Years of equipment neglect, untrimmed trees — not acts of God — responsible for many outages, according to report filed with Illinois Commerce CommissionProlonged outages that at one point left more than 850,000 people in northern Illinois without power during last summer's storms were not acts of God, but were caused by years of equipment neglect and lack of tree-trimming by ComEd, according to a report from the Illinois attorney general's office.

  • Competition fierce when it comes to craft beer

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:39 pm
    Connoisseurs stand in line to grab limited quantities of rare craft brewsWhen new craft beer is released, a frenzied fan base can make it disappear quickly.
 
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  • At least 12 hurt in overnight shootings

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:58 am
    At least 12 people were wounded by gunfire -- including a 10-year-old girl -- on the city’s South and West sides since about 8 p.m. Friday night, according to Chicago police.

  • Tennis: Azarenka bullies Sharapova to claim maiden major

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:26 am
    MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Victoria Azarenka became the first Belarusian to win a grand slam singles title when she claimed the Australian Open title with a crushing 6-3 6-0 victory over Russia's Maria Sharapova on Saturday.

  • Soccer: U.S. women secure Olympic berth

    28 Jan 2012 | 1:08 am
    (Reuters) - The United States and Canadian women's soccer teams booked their spots in this year's London Olympics with semi-final victories at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament on Friday.

  • Report: ComEd should pay customers for damages caused by outages

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:40 am
    Years of equipment neglect, untrimmed trees — not acts of God — responsible for many outages, according to report filed with Illinois Commerce CommissionProlonged outages that at one point left more than 850,000 people in northern Illinois without power during last summer's storms were not acts of God, but were caused by years of equipment neglect and lack of tree-trimming by ComEd, according to a report from the Illinois attorney general's office.

  • Competition fierce when it comes to craft beer

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:39 pm
    Connoisseurs stand in line to grab limited quantities of rare craft brewsWhen new craft beer is released, a frenzied fan base can make it disappear quickly.
 
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  • With Children's Museum plan for Grant Park officially dead, a promising new plan emerges

    Blair Kamin
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:03 pm
    From Sunday's print edition The Chicago Park District buried the real news when it unveiled some promising but imperfect sketches last week for the nearly 20-acre chunk of Grant Park known as Daley Bicentennial Plaza. The plans ditch an idea that the district and former Mayor Richard M. Daley once supported--ramming a mostly-underground children’s museum into Grant Park’s northeast corner (left). It’s gone, finito, Rahmbo-ized. Now, after months of dissembling, the Chicago Children’s Museum is for the first time admitting the obvious about the controversial kiddie bunker it sought…

  • With Children's Museum plan for Grant Park officially dead, a promising new plan emerges

    Blair Kamin
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:59 pm
    From Sunday's print edition The Chicago Park District buried the real news when it unveiled some promising but imperfect sketches last week for the nearly 20-acre chunk of Grant Park known as Daley Bicentennial Plaza. The plans ditch an idea that the district and former Mayor Richard M. Daley once supported--ramming a mostly-underground children’s museum into Grant Park’s northeast corner. It’s gone, finito, Rahmbo-ized. Now, after months of dissembling, the Chicago Children’s Museum is for the first time admitting the obvious about the controversial kiddie bunker it sought to build…

  • Wrigley Building close to city landmark status

    Blair Kamin
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:58 pm
    The Wrigley Building, the iconic Michigan Avenue skyscraper that was just sold to a consortium of buyers, is on the verge of taking a fast-track route toward official city landmark status. The building, which consists of adjoining towers at 400 and 410 N. Michigan Ave., is on a draft agenda for next Thursday's Commission on Chicago Landmarks meeting. City officials made the draft available on Friday. The agenda calls for the commission to make both preliminary and final recommendations to the City Council, which has the final say on landmark…

  • Is Trump ready to sign off on a sign for his Chicago tower?

    Blair Kamin
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:10 am
    Perhaps I should have left well enough alone. In a recent Cityscapes post about the Nuveen sign that has blighted the curving, green-glass  skyscraper at 333 W. Wacker Dr., I quoted a reader's observation that even Donald Trump has refrained from sticking his famous name atop his glassy Chicago hotel and condo tower. Oh, the power of suggestion. This morning, I got an email from Mr. Apprentice, who must have a Google Alert for "Trump." (He can't be a regular Cityscapes…

  • Art Institute to open a Gang exhibition next fall

    Blair Kamin
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:03 am
    The Art Institute of Chicago plans to mount an exhibition devoted to the work of Chicago architect Jeanne Gang this fall. The show is scheduled to open to the public on Sept. 22 and will run through Feb. 24, 2013, the museum's chief architecture and design curator, Zoe Ryan, said while we were on the phone this morning. In addition to exhibiting models and drawings of Gang's best-known projects, like the Aqua tower and the Columbia College Chicago Media Production Center, the show will "explain how [the…
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  • Archdiocese of Chicago considers bond sale

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Seeking to replenish coffers that have covered the costs of construction, clergy misconduct and parish operations, the Archdiocese of Chicago is exploring a number of options to raise more money, including the sale of private bonds to investors.

  • Restricted priest mistakenly celebrated Mass, Chicago archdiocese says

    22 Jan 2012 | 6:49 pm
    A retired priest has been reminded that he is restricted from public ministry at a Northfield parish until the Archdiocese of Chicago can substantiate an allegation of sexual misconduct dating to the 1970s.

  • Jewish community seeks match for 9-year-old who needs stem cells

    22 Jan 2012 | 2:44 pm
    Faith has been anchor for family of child with rare blood diseaseLacey Horwitch's mother feels like she doesn't have time to pray.

  • 'We want to give them a chance'

    21 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Elmhurst couple decide to implant frozen embryosA month after Anabella and Matteus Potter were born in 2009, their parents, Adriana and Robert, agreed to disagree on what to do with two other embryos created in the same petri dish as their twins.

  • Where is Wright?

    17 Jan 2012 | 10:45 pm
    Retired pastor at Obama's former church keeps a low profileSince retiring from Trinity United Church of Christ in 2008, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., 70, has kept a relatively low profile. He has declined most interview requests, including one for this story.
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    Steve Chapman: Minority of One - chicagotribune.com

  • Was Obama a law professor?

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:53 am
    In my column today , I say that Barack Obama was a "law professor," eliciting objections from some readers who say he was not. On this, I defer to the University of Chicago , which says unequivocally that he was.

  • When Newt resigned as Speaker

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:40 am
    Newt Gingrich and his rivals spent some time last night arguing about the circumstances of his 1998 resignation from the job of speaker of the House. That makes this news story about it particularly interesting.

  • Romney, Gingrich and the myth of inevitability

    23 Jan 2012 | 3:54 pm
    Nearly every presidential election year, one candidate with all sorts of visible advantages is assumed to be the overwhelming favorite, with a clear, short path to his party's nomination. In 1996, it was Bob Dole. In 2000, it was George W. Bush. In 2004, it was Howard Dean. In 2008, it was Hillary Clinton.

  • Newt's phony outrage

    20 Jan 2012 | 4:43 pm
    Newt Gingrich 's best moment in last night's debate was when he responded to a question about his ex-wife's claim that he proposed an "open marriage." He raged, "I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office. And I am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that."

  • Newt Gingrich gets mad

    11 Jan 2012 | 2:54 pm
    Newt Gingrich, who went from leading in Iowa to finishing a distant fourth, got walloped again in New Hampshire, taking less than 10 percent of the vote. He's not a candidate who could break out as soon as people take a good look at him. His problem is that the more voters see him, the less they like him.
 
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    Jon Hilkevitch: Getting Around - chicagotribune.com

  • CTA blames parts supplier for out-of-service rail cars

    23 Jan 2012 | 7:11 am
    No timetable for return of equipment pulled more than a month agoX-rays and stress tests to detect possible metal fatigue are being conducted on a critical component of the CTA's still out-of-service new rail cars, according to officials from the CTA and the manufacturer.

  • Commuters learn to navigate new Wacker Drive closures

    16 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Time will ease congestion and confusion, city officials sayWhen Chicago shut down two consecutive intersections on Wacker Drive last week to make room for construction work, unusual things happened.

  • City testing traffic tracker website

    14 Jan 2012 | 2:29 am
    System uses GPS on CTA buses to map congestion along arterial streetsThe Chicago Department of Transportation is building a new website that offers an array of traffic information about 300 miles of arterial streets citywide.

  • CTA updates train tracking feature

    9 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A system to track trains with text messages begins MondayCTA Train Tracker — the answer to "Where's my train?" — is marking its first anniversary, and transit officials Monday will flip the switch on a new text-messaging feature.

  • Chicago's 2011 pothole tally hits record

    2 Jan 2012 | 3:53 am
    Crews filled more than 600,000 craters in streets, alleysThe tally on Chicago's rutted streets and alleys is in, and it's a record: Crews filled more than 600,000 potholes in 2011, or about 25 percent more than in 2010, according to the Chicago Department of Transportation .
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  • The umbrage card trick

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    What do you do when you're a presidential candidate like Newt Gingrich who lugs so much baggage that your baggage has baggage? That's easy. You reach up your sleeve and … Oh, yes. You play the umbrage card. You fume and fuss with outrage over the question and hope no one demands an answer.

  • Revenge of Web heads

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Fear the Wiki-power! A historic online protest by Wikipedia and other websites against proposed anti-piracy legislation has startled Web surfers, stunned Hollywood and stopped Congress in its tracks. Call this movie "Revenge of the Computer Nerds."

  • Would today's GOP elect Reagan?

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Jon Huntsman has suspended his presidential campaign. No one is surprised. He stood out from the rest of the Republican presidential pack as an intelligent voice of reason, diplomacy and international expertise. In other words, he might have been the right man, but these are the wrong times.

  • Reproductive freedom?

    15 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Caution: This presidential campaign endangers reproductive health. Women's rights to contraception and other reproductive health services seem to face even more than the usual threats from the 2012 Republican presidential candidates. All of which raises new questions about whose freedoms today's conservatives really want to defend.

  • Why Obama's recess battle really matters

    14 Jan 2012 | 9:01 pm
    Fight with Congress is about a lot more than whether one man gets a new job.It's easy to ignore President Barack Obama's dispute with Senate Republicans over his recess appointments if you don't care what the government is doing with your money.
 
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    Dawn Turner Trice - chicagotribune.com

  • Sorting through fears, myths surrounding HPV vaccine

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Dr. Kenneth Alexander is a pediatric infectious disease researcher at the University of Chicago who has been studying the human papillomavirus (HPV) in the lab since 1992.

  • Girls discuss Jay-Z and the power of derogatory words

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Teens tells us what they think about rumors that the hip-hop artist will stop using the B-word after the birth of his daughter Over a few days recently, there were rumors that hip-hop mogul Jay-Z— Beyonce's baby's daddy — was going to stop using the B-word (think female dog) in his music.

  • Trice: Timuel Black Jr.'s memorabilia is rare glimpse into black Chicago

    16 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Extensive collection of letters, tapes on display at Chicago Public LibraryIn the 1960s, Chicago historian and educator Timuel Black Jr. had a lady friend with a penchant for neatness who gently suggested he throw out some of the bags of memorabilia crowding his Hyde Park apartment.

  • After World AIDS Day, a fashion show will focus on HIV prevention

    12 Jan 2012 | 10:25 am
    Underground community stepping into limelight at U. of C. eventIf you want to know why the normally staid, buttoned-down University of Chicago Medical Center will host a gala fashion show on Friday for a little-known underground community of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, you'll have to talk to two men.

  • Though world stood still, things moving forward in Haiti

    11 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    U. of C. professor of medicine helping launch residency program in Haiti, marking 2nd anniversary of quakeThis was the email Dr. Evan Lyon sent Jan. 17, 2010, five days after Haiti's devastating earthquake:
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    Change of Subject

  • Weeks in review

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:03 pm
    A roundup of state and local news-review and weekly political chat shows. Descriptions provided by the broadcast outlets in most cases: Connected to Chicago (mp3) WLS-AM: Host Bill Cameron with Greg Hinz of Crains Chicago Business, Ray Long of the...

  • How to attack like Newt

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:38 pm
    Via the New York Times: In 1990, (Newt) Gingrich's political action committee, Gopac, instructed Republican candidates to learn to "speak like Newt," by offering a glossary of words to describe Democrats. From the flyer: We have heard a plaintive plea:...

  • What's your blues name?

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:29 pm
    This has been going around....

  • Coming up in the news cycle, Indiana's right-to-freeload bill

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:17 pm
    Item updated and expanded It looks as though a high-profile right-to-freeload law about to pass in the Indiana legislature will be the focus of protests at next weekend's Super Bowl in Indianapolis. What? You haven't heard about the proposal? Maybe...

  • Oh, you frat boys!

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:08 pm
    You never change, you scamps! I was a member of a fraternity that asked pledges, in order to become a brother, to: swim in a kiddie pool full of vomit, urine, fecal matter, semen and rotten food products; eat omelets...
 
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  • U.S. fourth-quarter GDP falls short of expectations

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The nation's broadest measure of U.S. economic output rose at a 2.8% annual rate — many analysts had predicted 3% — in the October through December period, and signs point to economic weakness ahead.The U.S. economy ended last year on firmer footing with modestly stronger growth. But output fell short of what analysts expected, and signs point to weakness ahead.

  • U.S. may rely on aging U-2 spy planes longer than expected

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The Pentagon has proposed delaying a plan to replace the U-2s with RQ-4 Global Hawk drones because of Defense Department cutbacks.Wars have come and gone. But for more than half a century, the CIA and U.S. military have relied on a skinny sinister-looking black jet to go deep behind enemy lines for vital intelligence-gathering missions.

  • Twitter's new censorship plan stirs global furor

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:34 pm
    Its says it now has the power to block tweets in a specific country if the government legally requires it to do so. Dissidents and activists fear the new policy will stifle free speech.Twitter has promoted itself as a beacon of free speech, and that image was burnished when revolutionaries used the social media service to organize protests during last year's Arab Spring uprising.

  • State investigation: ComEd should pay for outages

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:33 pm
    Prolonged outages that at one point left more than 800,000 people in Northern Illinois without power during last summer's storms were not unpreventable acts of God, but were caused by years of neglect of equipment and lack of tree-trimming by ComEd, according to a report from the Illinois Attorney General's office.

  • Chrysler to add 1,600 workers at Illinois plant

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
    Chrysler Group LLC will announce next week it will hire more than 1,600 workers to an Illinois assembly plant, signaling the start of a hiring blitz that promises to add thousands of workers to the auto maker's plants over the next three years.
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  • Tenant-parking repeal may be retaliatory

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:38 am
    Q: I have a lease that doesn't say anything about pets. My landlord wants me to agree to a new clause prohibiting pets without his consent, but I refused to sign the amended lease, because I was planning on getting a dog.

  • Bylaws set different standards for leasing units

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Q: I bought a unit eight years ago as an investment property where I plan to live when I retire. At the time of the purchase, there were no rental restrictions for the unit. A recent proposal by some residents to increase the number of rentals from 5 percent to 10 percent of the building was defeated.

  • In the year of the landlord, some training beneficial

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Five years after the housing market's downfall, the number of tenants is on the rise. So is the number of landlords, and both groups often enter into these arrangements with their eyes only partially open.

  • Condo vs. house: What's best for you?

    21 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    You've decided to dip your toe into the sea of properties available in the real estate market. Now, the question is: single-family home or condo?

  • Affordable rental buildings filling gap in senior housing

    21 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    At a vulnerable point in life, many seniors must find an affordable place to live.
 
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    Illinois Foreclosures, Short Sales & Auctions - chicagotribune.com

  • New initiative will coordinate probes of mortgage meltdown

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A team of attorneys, agents and analysts will try to speed up existing federal and state probes and launch new ones into the highly risky mortgage-backed securities that fell apart.The Obama administration's new effort to investigate the causes of the nation's mortgage meltdown will focus on coordinating the often overlapping state and federal investigations and on holding accountable those whose misconduct led to the global financial crisis.

  • Risks of walking away from time share

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Q: I have read your articles regarding time shares but I still feel at a loss as to how unload mine. It is completely paid, with the maintenance fees paid every other year. I have offered it on Craigslist but still no bites. I visited a licensed real estate broker and he has the same problem trying to sell his time share. What would be the worst-case scenario if I don't continue to pay the maintenance fees? I don't mind losing this time share and I would like to know if doing this will affect my credit. Can I abandon the time share? Do I try another real estate broker?

  • Two Obama initiatives to address foreclosure crisis face hurdles

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The president's proposals include an expanded refinancing plan for struggling homeowners and a new, aggressive probe of financial firms' mortgage practices.Two new initiatives from President Obama to address the foreclosure crisis — more help for struggling homeowners and aggressive investigations of financial firms — face significant hurdles as the nation's real estate troubles linger in a volatile election year.

  • Second-home debt weighs on owners

    13 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Q: We own a second home within five miles of our primary residence. This second home has been used as a rental, initially to persons we were not connected with in any way. For the past 10 years, two sets of relatives who were in need of a new start in life lived in the home. Each set of relatives lived there at different times. The current set has been there five years. The rental contract is for fair market value, though much less than the mortgage. Obviously, we have been paying the difference at a loss.

  • Debt-relief window closing soon

    13 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The window is closing rapidly on one of the most important tax-relief provisions enacted by Congress during the housing crisis to help financially strapped homeowners.
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  • Best and worst states for job seekers

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    There have been signs of economic growth this month. Earlier in the month we learned that as of December 2011, the national jobless rate was at 8.5 percent, a rate that's continued to trend down since February 2009.

  • How to land a job in 2012

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Whether it's rewriting your cover letter, reviewing the way you approach interviews or rethinking what kind of job will make you happy, here are some tips for landing a new job in the new year. You'll hear from authors, career experts, career coaches and entrepreneurs.

  • State of the Union reveals job creation plans

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    All eyes were on President Obama last night as he delivered what was potentially his final State of the Union address. One of the central issues discussed in his speech? Jobs. And rightly so.

  • Guide to a professional profile picture

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    In past posts, we’ve offered up best practices for using social media in your job search. That’s because more and more recruiters and hiring managers are utilizing social networks to learn about and even contact potential candidates.

  • Hugs at work: Kind or invasive?

    23 Jan 2012 | 9:23 am
    The hug. It's a simple gesture that can make a happy situation happier or help someone overcome with sadness feel a little better. Studies have shown that hugs can actually make a difference in one's health; research out of the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill found that a hug can lower blood pressure and reduce the harmful physical effects of stress.
 
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    Phil Rosenthal - chicagotribune.com

  • Facebook IPO: Friending with benefits

    29 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A lot to like about a company worth $100 billionFacebook, the company that popularized use of the word "friend" as a verb, is at last poised to go public.

  • Illinois ranks lower on business tax climate

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    State drops from No. 16 to No. 28 after ratcheting up individual income tax and corporate income tax ratesLet's talk climate change. Not weather, but taxes.

  • Corporate survival depends on picturing how future will develop

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Eastman Kodak failed to foresee changing landscape, but printing giant R.R. Donnelley continues to evolveAll the digital touch ups in the world can't make the picture more attractive: Eastman Kodak looks very old today.

  • How Romney could respond to attacks on private equity

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Criticism from Republican rivals has sparked debate over the business model"Here's the case I would make, if I were he," Steven Kaplan said Tuesday, pausing to note he has nothing to do with Mitt Romney's presidential campaign or Romney's old private equity firm, Bain Capital.

  • London calls Aon, but what does Chicago hear?

    15 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Shift of Aon Corp.'s headquarters may test the positive attitude of Chicago's business elite and their ability to sell the city as a global centerChicago's W. Clement Stone preached the value of a positive mental attitude and considered it the key to his Horatio Alger-style success.
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  • It pays to understand your 401(k) plan fees

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Still think you don't pay anything for your 401(k) plan?

  • Risks of walking away from time share

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Q: I have read your articles regarding time shares but I still feel at a loss as to how unload mine. It is completely paid, with the maintenance fees paid every other year. I have offered it on Craigslist but still no bites. I visited a licensed real estate broker and he has the same problem trying to sell his time share. What would be the worst-case scenario if I don't continue to pay the maintenance fees? I don't mind losing this time share and I would like to know if doing this will affect my credit. Can I abandon the time share? Do I try another real estate broker?

  • No kidding: New parents can save lots of money

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The dark economy has put a damper on Americans' parental urges. Since reaching a record high of 4.3 million in 2007, U.S. births have dropped each year to 4.0 million in 2010, according preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But you have ways big and small to lessen the financial blow of having a child, and some of them have other benefits as well.

  • How to land a job in 2012

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Whether it's rewriting your cover letter, reviewing the way you approach interviews or rethinking what kind of job will make you happy, here are some tips for landing a new job in the new year. You'll hear from authors, career experts, career coaches and entrepreneurs.

  • Young workers, unite: Grab 401(k) match

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Want to save more money? If you're young, you may want to start with your 401(k), especially if you were automatically enrolled.
 
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  • New Chevrolets Get Ecological Label

    Colin Bird
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:50 pm
    Chevrolet says it will start putting new informational labels on its vehicles to help consumers understand the vehicle's ecological impact. But is it just a marketing gimmick?

  • Cars.com News Briefs: Jan. 27, 2012

    Kelsey Mays
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:50 pm
    Here's what we have our eye on today:

  • Cars.com Family Reviews the 2012 Mitsubishi Outlander

    Jennifer Newman
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:50 pm
    Mitsubishi keeps it simple in the 2012 Outlander SUV. Maybe a little too simple, says Cars.com Family contributor Courtney Messenbaugh. She found the plastic-laden interior yawn-inducing, but the optional third row really raised her ire with its flimsy materials and tight confines — even for her young son. However, Courtney did appreciate the Outlander's sporty exterior and agility on the road.

  • 2012 Honda Crosstour Priced at $27,655

    Colin Bird
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:50 pm
    For the 2012 model year, the Honda Crosstour gets a new four-cylinder option that starts at $27,655, excluding an $810 destination fee. The model officially went on sale today at Honda dealerships.

  • 2013 Ford Escape Goes Green, Literally

    Jennifer Geiger
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:50 pm
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  • The Queen of Terra Cotta Row

    Dennis Rodkin
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:28 am
    List Price: $2.495 million The Property: During its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company made Chicago the capital of architectural ornamentation. The company’s officers weren’t shy about using their products on their homes on Terra Cotta Row, a cluster of four homes on the 1000 block of West Oakdale in Lake View...

  • Frank Lloyd Wright’s Heller House Hits the Market Today

    Dennis Rodkin
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:35 am
    After being on sale informally for a couple of weeks, a treasured Frank Lloyd Wright design in Hyde Park, the Isidore H. Heller House, officially hits the market today. Completed in 1897, the residence signaled Wright’s turn away from the richly ornamented style of his boss, Louis Sullivan...

  • Rodkin on All-Cash Home Purchases

    chicagomag.com
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:45 pm
    Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Jennifer from Hyde Park asks about homebuyers who pay in cash.

  • Naperville Remembers the Alamo

    Dennis Rodkin
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:35 am
    List Price: $898,000 Sale Price: $800,000 The Property: The theatrical façade of this 12-room house in the East Highlands neighborhood of Naperville reminds me of the Alamo—or what that Texas landmark might look like if renovated into a single-family home...

  • A Passage to India—via Lake Forest

    Dennis Rodkin
    19 Jan 2012 | 10:03 am
    List Price: $6.495 million The Property: On a bitterly cold day, a welcoming home can transport visitors to a better place. At this Lake Forest estate, that place is an idealized version of India in the 1890s. The home’s entire central hallway, about 25 feet long, is papered with a Zuber wallpaper panorama called Hindustan that was installed when the home was owned by the family of William A. P. Pullman, from 1926 to 1992...
 
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  • Is your broker a double agent?

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Nearly nine out of every 10 homebuyers used a real estate agent last year. That's up from 69 percent a decade ago, according to the National Association of Realtors' most recent profile of buyers and sellers.

  • Survey reveals a shift in homebuyer patterns

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    New data on who took the plunge and purchased a home last year shows that declining prices and mortgage interest rates made homeownership attainable for some Chicagoans who couldn't get into the market just two years earlier.

  • Home construction delay has buyers wanting out

    20 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Q: My wife and I signed a purchase agreement in June with anticipated delivery of November/December. In September, we were advised that delivery would be delayed until March/April of 2012. When we asked the reason for the delay, we were eventually told that the developer did not have the finances in place yet to begin development of that phase. This is the first we had heard that there even were phases.

  • Room to move up or down, even in a slow housing market

    20 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Can housing upsize and downsize at the same time? Absolutely.

  • Home size: Choosing the right square footage

    13 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Homebuyers become more practical in choices of living spaceIf Scott and Kim Fogel had a theme song, it would be "You Can't Always Get What You Want." Because, as the chorus reminds us, if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need, especially when it comes to a new home.
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  • Chicago libraries to close all day most Mondays

    6 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Union says hours should not be reduced at allChicago's branch libraries will be closed all day on most Mondays instead of being closed during the morning on most Mondays and Fridays, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel originally envisioned.

  • Walter Dean Myers named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

    4 Jan 2012 | 3:05 pm
    Prolific author declares "Reading Is Not Optional"Acclaimed young adult and children's book author Walter Dean Myers will be the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, the Library of Congress announced Tuesday. Myers, 74, has won the Coretta Scott King Award five times, been honored with the Newbery Medal twice, was a finalist for the National Book Award and received the Printz Award for his bestselling book "Monster."

  • Karl Marx, Harper Lee sold big in 2011

    4 Jan 2012 | 11:57 am
    Used book-selling website AbeBooks' biggest sale in 2011 was of Karl Marx's "Das Kapital," the three-volume first edition published by Otto Meissner in 1867. Ironically, someone paid $51,739 for the seminal critique of capitalism.

  • James Franco signs publishing deal with Amazon

    4 Jan 2012 | 11:52 am
    The actor and student will publish a novel with the publishing houseJames Franco, the actor-writer-producer-graduate student, has signed a publishing deal with Amazon's fledgling publishing house, the Observer reports.

  • Critic's Notebook: Grantland takes on the bigger world of sports

    4 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    With a Web presence, strong writers and now a print quarterly, Grantland opens the conversation on a new way of thinking about sportswriting and the games we play.When it comes to sportswriting, I tend to subscribe to George Plimpton's small-ball theory: The smaller the ball, the better the writing about the sport. This has a lot to do with my own biases (I'm a baseball fan, not much interest in basketball or football), but it also seems borne out by the literature. And yet, if Bill Simmons is right, the whole notion of a ball theory (small or large) might turn out to be moot.
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  • Phil Vettel recommends restaurants with spicy dishes

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Baby it's cold outside, so we offer some hot spots to dial up the heat on the insideWhen it's cold outside, you want to be warm inside, and one way to accomplish that is with a nice jolt of spice in your food. Here are a few dishes, some of them in surprising places, that have gotten our tonsils' attention lately.

  • Loop spot known for chicken tortilla soup

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Ceres Cafe traces lineage to steakhouse, The Broker's InnThis story begins with soup, then moves on to an oversized fish sandwich, its connection to a steakhouse from long ago, its dapper current owner and, finally, that old trope of how the more things change, the more they stay the same.

  • The artiste

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    For his restaurant designs, Davide Nanni repurposes just about everything with startling resultsDavide Nanni winced.

  • A new cocktail lineup at Frontera,Topolobampo

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Apple-tamarind cocktail: The food is fresh and inventive as ever, but times are changing on the drink menu at venerable Frontera Grill and Topolobampo. A new cocktail lineup has taken root. Beyond classics such as the Manhattan and gin and tonic, the lineup includes drinks you'll find nowhere else: agua fresca cocktails.

  • Eat this!

    19 Jan 2012 | 2:52 pm
    Azteca omelet: It was a sad day when under-the-radar gem Ravenswood Grill, in the neighborhood for which it was named, closed. There aren't many brunch places where no wait is followed by an inventive Mexican-influenced meal. Fortunately, Ravenswood Grill has been replaced in the same space by Cinnamon Cafe, with many of the same minds running the show.
 
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  • Reel vs. read: Which Marilyn Monroe is more plausible?

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:24 pm
    She's got the look. She's also got the walk, the talk and the wardrobe.

  • Spertus Institute reinvents itself

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:54 pm
    A storied Chicago institution works through a financial crisisWhen Hal Lewis became president of Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, in July 2009, the future of the place looked grim.

  • Worthington manly on a ledge, but not in front of TV

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:48 am
    Sam Worthington has insisted over the years that he isn't the tough guy he often plays on the big screen, but the star of "Avatar," "Clash of the Titans" and "Terminator Salvation" did little to disprove his macho persona when we met in his downtown Chicago hotel last week -- at least at first.

  • Album review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born to Die'

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:44 pm
    Lana Del Rey wants to be taken seriously as the bad girl in a gown, the cabaret singer with a masochistic streak.

  • Country Music noms: Kenny Chesney leads with nine

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:52 pm
    The 47th annual Academy of Country Music Awards have announced the nominations. Kenny Chesney leads with nine, including Entertainer of the Year, which he has won four times previously. Jason Aldean is nominated for six awards and Lady Antebellum is nominated for five, including Vocal Group of the Year, which they have won the last two years.
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  • Tangerine dreams

    21 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Pantone's color of 2012 gets a fresh squeezeOrange has come a long way from Howard Johnson roofs and A&W drive-ins of the 1970s — so far, in fact, that global color authority Pantone has anointed the reddish-orange Tangerine Tango the color of 2012.

  • YouTube's top 5 fashion videos of 2011

    4 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Scarf is star of YouTube's 5 most-watchedIf you want to know what fashionistas are wearing, there's Vogue. If you want to know how to wear it, there's YouTube.

  • Are you ready for red?

    20 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
    Scarlet's on the rise in fashion, and not just for the holidaysIn a black and white world, legendary fashion designer Valentino Garavani believed only one color could compete: red.

  • Fashion books: From brain food to eye candy

    14 Dec 2011 | 2:36 pm
    If fashion is a candy store, publishers are the kids running wild in it. The result is a selection of coffee-table books for holiday giving that alternate between deeply satisfying and a fun sugar rush.

  • The do's and don'ts of fashion

    14 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
    George Kotsiopoulos, co-host of 'E! Fashion Police,' on trends — and how not to take a wrong turnEach season the designer runways generate a list of fashion do's. But the real fun begins at "E! Fashion Police," when women start taking the trends into their own hands.
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  • Artist recycles items into eye-catching designs

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    For his restaurant designs, Davide Nanni repurposes just about everything with startling resultsDavide Nanni repurposes just about everything with stunning results.

  • Loop spot known for chicken tortilla soup

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Ceres Cafe traces lineage to steakhouse, The Broker's InnCeres Café is the place for a big lunch served quickly and efficiently.

  • Phil Vettel recommends spots with spicy dishes

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Baby it's cold outside, so we offer some hot spots to dial up the heat on the insideBaby it's cold outside, so we offer some hot spots to dial up the heat on the inside.

  • Dressed-up oatmeal

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Nothing seems as satisfying when it's cold outside as a warm bowl of oatmealNothing seems as satisfying as a warm bowl of oatmeal.

  • Taming collard greens

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Collard greens' thick, meaty leaves can be monsters, but you can cut away those ribs for something tender and juicy.
 
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  • Tame your garden with well-behaved natives

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:11 pm
    Serene and stationary in a centerpiece or outdoor container, Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus) appears innocent. But when set loose in a natural area, this aggressive vine quickly forms a patch of tangled stems where nothing else can live.

  • New kids on the plot

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:10 pm
    2012 introductions can bring some spark to gardens (and help us dream of spring)Every winter, as icy winds whip sleet around the yard, gardeners long for spring and the chance to try new things. But "new" — the most powerful word in the plant business — can be tricky.

  • Extending the life of cut flowers

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:06 pm
    Q: I have not been having good luck with getting cut flowers to last long at home. Could you please provide some tips?

  • Lincoln Park Zoo to offer garden classes

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:04 pm
    A series of gardening classes will be offered at Lincoln Park Zoo beginning in February and continuing through July. The first is "Smart and Soulful Gardening," an hourlong program to be offered twice — at 6 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1 in the Keller Auditorium, near the main entrance and across from the Kovler Lion House. Brian Houck, the zoo's director of horticulture, will lead participants in an exploration of new ways for gardeners to rethink their green spaces. Admission is free, but registration is required. Go to lpzoo.org/education (type "gardening" in the search field) or call…

  • Game plan

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Throw a Superbowl chili-and-beer tasting that will have guests naming you the party MVPThanks to the NFL, Superbowl Sunday conjures any number of images: arenas groaning with capacity crowds; overblown halftime shows; oversize fans who make us wish body paint was never invented. And, of course, parties.
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  • Katherine Heigl flick: 'One (star) for the Money,' indeed

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    On today's edition of "Smart Women, Stupid Choices": Katherine Heigl! She left a halfway decent medical soap opera for a string of increasingly mediocre, decreasingly romantic "comedies" pairing her with increasingly bland leading men.

  • 'The Grey' — 3 stars

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The title "8 Million Ways to Die" was already taken, so "The Grey"had to settle for "The Grey," named for the plus-size wolves waging war on the desperate human survivors of an Alaskan wilderness plane crash. Tough situation. Frostbite. Wolf bite. Drowning. Falling from great heights. Harsh outcomes abound for both man and beast.

  • 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' — 2 stars

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Or do we? "We Need to Talk About Kevin"is artfully visualized but, at heart, little more than "The Bad Seed and How!" Director and co-writer Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of the Lionel Shriver novel complicates Shriver's story structure while simplifying Shriver's meanings, along with her provocative, mixed-up explorations of parental guilt.

  • 'A Separation' — 4 stars

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Some films wear their artistry so lightly they appear simply to be happening, the inner workings of the story guided by an unseen hand. In "A Separation,"the stunning drama from Iran and the foreign-language awards contender of the season, the hand belongs to writer-director Asghar Farhadi, making his fifth feature since 2003.

  • 'Albert Nobbs' — 2 1/2 stars

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    "Such a kind little man," coos the bustling owner of a quaint 19th-century Dublin hotel, regarding her most sphinxlike waiter, the servant played by Glenn Close.
 
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  • Take a bow, Mama Rose, this is a classic 'Gypsy'

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:19 am
    THEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★½THEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★½ ... If you like your Mamas Rose to be of the old school, then Klea Blackhurst's classic interpretation of the greatest character in that musical masterpiece "Gypsy" will be your kind of Mama.

  • Cromer returns to Grover's Corners in flinty New England

    26 Jan 2012 | 3:30 pm
    David Cromer's increasingly famous production of "Our Town," which began at The Hypocrites in Chicago, then moved Off-Broadway for a record-breaking run, and was a recent hit in Los Angeles in a version starring Helen Hunt, is now headed to the Huntington Theatre in Boston.

  • Will drama, music, romance draw viewers to 'Smash' on NBC?

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:49 pm
    Without the freaks and geeks of "Glee,"who made long-skeptical network executives suddenly receptive to prime-time characters singing and dancing, there would be no "Smash."But NBC's eminently watchable and shrewdly crafted new drama series, which premieres Feb. 6 after a heavy marketing campaign, is not about high school drama but the actual grown-up business of Broadway itself, otherwise known as freaks and geeks with bigger budgets and training, but the same insecurities.

  • A 'Tempest' easy on the eyes, if not the heart or ears

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:33 am
    THEATER REVIEW: "The Feast: An Intimate Tempest" ★★½THEATER REVIEW: "The Feast: An Intimate Tempest" ★★½ ... Imagine that William Shakespeare's masterpiece,"The Tempest," contained no tropical island, no shipwreck, no storm, no living, breathing Miranda.

  • Oh 'Mamma Mia,' you're showing your age

    25 Jan 2012 | 3:43 pm
    THEATER REVIEW: "Mamma Mia!" at the Oriental Theatre ★★½THEATER REVIEW: "Mamma Mia!" at the Oriental Theatre ★★½ ... It will be 13 years in April - oh, the horror of it! - since I first sat in the back of London's Prince Edward Theatre and watched this brilliantly clever confection basically define a new kind of populist musical.
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  • Three dead, 16 missing in Rio buildings collapse

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:48 am
    RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Rescuers on Thursday recovered three bodies from the rubble of three buildings that collapsed in downtown Rio, highlighting the creaky infrastructure of the city that will host the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.

  • Play ball!

    20 Jan 2012 | 11:25 am
    Spring training has turned the Phoenix area into a virtual baseball theme parkA day after the Los Angeles Angels acquired superstar Albert Pujols in December, a trickle of fans found their way to the team's Arizona spring training site in Tempe Diablo Stadium. No one was deterred that the box office was closed until Feb. 18. "I'll be back," said an Anaheim resident in the area on business. "This is big."

  • NOLA's next big thing?

    20 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am
    Chefs Rick Tramonto and John Folse want their French Quarter debut to be sensationalWhat is to become Restaurant R'evolution is still under construction; there are gaping spaces for equipment yet to arrive and rubble yet to be removed. But chefs John Folse and Rick Tramonto can look through the dust and see their vision coming to life.

  • Search fails to find 4 overdue campers, climbers on Rainier

    19 Jan 2012 | 9:59 pm
    'Concern grows' for well-being of four in extreme conditions Four overdue campers and climbers have been on Mount Rainier during one of the worst snow and ice storms to hit the Pacific Northwest in years, and concern grew as the National Park Service said an initial search on the mountain Thursday failed to find anyone.

  • A big question mark hovers over the cruise industry

    19 Jan 2012 | 7:46 pm
    Cruise lines were ready for a busy year, with continued deals, expanded river jaunts and hot new locales. How the Costa Concordia disaster affects the industry is still unknown. The first quarter of 2012 was supposed to be a sweet spot for passenger cruise lines. Wave season, as it's known, marks a time when cruise companies and travel agents roll out deep discounts on cruise vacations and rack up lots of sales.
 
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  • Readers open to ambiguity

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Endings are never easy, and open-ended endings — fantastic paradox! — remind us of the art involved with movie endings that tantalize without nailing down a single explanation or conclusion.

  • The end is only the beginning of debate

    19 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    This is the end . Or is it?

  • More to a film's look than meets the eye

    12 Jan 2012 | 10:26 am
    So many design elements feed into the crystallization of any one screen image, the question of where one artist's contribution ends and another's begins is rarely easy. When a movie stimulates our senses (particularly sight, but also sound) it's the work and sweat and instinct of a tangle of designers working in collaboration with a director. Or in competition.

  • Out of the shadows, cinematographers debate

    12 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    "It's the death of shadows!" a gaffer, i.e., movie-set electrician, said to a Los Angeleno friend of mine. He was decrying how the digital filmmaking revolution had compromised the image quality (not to mention his own freelance employment) in feature filmmaking.

  • Men of a certain age, aging on screen

    5 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    With the success of "Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol" comes the industry realization, or rather the industry press speculation, that Tom Cruise is back, baby, back as a bankable movie star.
 
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  • Take a bow, Mama Rose, this is a classic 'Gypsy'

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:19 am
    THEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "Gypsy" at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace ★★★½ ... If you like your Mamas Rose to be of the old school, then Klea Blackhurst's classic interpretation of the greatest character in that musical masterpiece "Gypsy" will be your kind of Mama.

  • Cromer returns to Grover's Corners in flinty New England

    26 Jan 2012 | 3:30 pm
    David Cromer's increasingly famous production of "Our Town," which began at The Hypocrites in Chicago, then moved Off-Broadway for a record-breaking run, and was a recent hit in Los Angeles in a version starring Helen Hunt, is now headed to the Huntington Theatre in Boston.

  • Drama, music, romance sure to draw viewers to 'Smash' on NBC

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:49 pm
    Without the freaks and geeks of "Glee,"who made long-skeptical network executives suddenly receptive to prime-time characters singing and dancing, there would be no "Smash."But NBC's eminently watchable and shrewdly crafted new drama series, which premieres Feb. 6 after a heavy marketing campaign, is not about high school drama but the actual grown-up business of Broadway itself, otherwise known as freaks and geeks with bigger budgets and training, but the same insecurities.

  • 'Tempest' easy on the eyes, if not the heart, ears

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:33 am
    THEATER REVIEW: "The Feast: An Intimate Tempest" ★★½ THEATER REVIEW: "The Feast: An Intimate Tempest" ★★½ ... Imagine that William Shakespeare's masterpiece,"The Tempest," contained no tropical island, no shipwreck, no storm, no living, breathing Miranda.

  • Suburban theater for the week of Jan. 27 to Feb. 2

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:14 pm
    KERRY REID on what's on stage in Chicago's suburbs.
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  • Taking five with yoga teacher Tara Stiles

    18 Jan 2012 | 1:45 pm
    When yoga teacher Tara Stiles listed her influences on her YouTube profile, she typed in "Deepak Chopra, Jane Fonda and Yoko Ono."

  • Paula Deen's diabetes: Blaming the victim?

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    As Southern celebrity chef Paula Deen certainly knows by now, people with Type 2 diabetes are routinely blamed for causing their disease by eating junky food and making unhealthy lifestyle choices.

  • Risk of disease partially set in womb, scientists say

    17 Jan 2012 | 7:44 am
    New field of research explores links between mother's health during pregnancy and illnesses years later Pregnant women sacrifice many of life's simple pleasures — caffeine, sushi, a glass of wine — in the hope that their baby will be born healthy.

  • Pregnancy: How a poor diet can affect your fetus

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Pregnant women who eat poorly risk leaving their children less able to properly store fats in later life, leading to a higher risk of diabetes, according to research that sheds new light on how nutrition in the womb can permanently influence adult health.

  • Anticancer: Why didn't the blueberries work?

    12 Jan 2012 | 11:26 pm
    French neuroscientist David Servan-Schreiber assumed that anyone picking up his latest and final book, “Not the Last Goodbye,” has one awkward question for him: "So the raspberries and broccoli aren’t enough?”
 
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  • It's time for Shurna to take over

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:10 pm
    NU senior must assert himself if Wildcats hope to fulfill NCAA aspirationsTim Doyle saw an empty seat next to John Shurna on Northwestern's chartered flight back from Michigan two weeks ago. Doyle, the BTN analyst and former Wildcat celebrated for his all-around game and Elvis Presley hair, sat down to offer what he called "big-brother advice."

  • Paterno's legacy forever cloudy

    24 Jan 2012 | 10:59 pm
    Can all good he did ever overcome one colossal mistake?They will bury Joe Paterno on Wednesday, but the debate will rage for decades. Do you judge a man by his body of work — or by one colossal mistake?

  • Hard to say which way NU is headed

    1 Jan 2012 | 4:41 pm
    Up-and-down season frustrating for all, but defensive upgrades clearly neededHOUSTON — It was a frustrating season, and not just for Northwestern's players, coaches and fans.

  • Michigan may hold key to NU's bowl destination

    27 Nov 2011 | 8:54 pm
    If Wolverines aren't eligible for at-large BCS berth, it would have trickle-down effectFor Northwestern fans, it's not quite time to pass the oregano.

  • Pride on line for Michigan State

    22 Nov 2011 | 10:59 pm
    Game with Northwestern won't affect their BCS/Rose Bowl statusWin or lose, Michigan State will play for a Rose Bowl berth Dec. 3 in the inaugural Big Ten championship game.
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  • Playing with pain not just part of sports lexicon

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:48 pm
    Doctors say most injuries won't get worse if players can perform with discomfortEvery time Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau says it's up to Derrick Rose whether he can play with turf toe, I cringe a little.

  • Bears GM search curious

    25 Jan 2012 | 7:14 pm
    Unstated paramount question to candidates is who he inevitably would want as coachBy the end of their poky search to find the right general manager to get back to the Super Bowl, the Bears might find it necessary to make a deal with the devil.

  • Sox GM Williams feels son Kyle's pain

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Dad tells 49ers goat when disappointment subsides, 'get your focus back'Nothing Ken Williams or anybody could say to his son Kyle would dull the pain Sunday night. No words would make it any easier for Kyle Williams to accept the consequences of his actions.

  • Paterno latest reminder extraordinary leaders make mistakes in judgment too

    22 Jan 2012 | 6:08 pm
    Impacted too many lives in 62 years at Penn State to allow the ones he endangered with neglect dominate eulogies of his lifeOn homemade signs placed by the Joe Paterno statue outside Beaver Stadium and online tributes Sunday, you saw images of the same words expressed often: JOEPA, RIP.

  • Harbaugh overcame challenges the Chicago way

    21 Jan 2012 | 3:32 pm
    49ers coach gained hard-earned respect from Ditka, Tobin and teammates with BearsIn 42 years as an NFL executive, Bill Tobin encountered only one other player who matched Jim Harbaugh's competitiveness. Perhaps you have heard of Walter Payton.
 
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    chicagotribune.com - Dan Pompei

  • Urlacher says Toradol use isn't rampant

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Bears linebacker says he has taken controversial drug 40-50 times to help him playBrian Urlacher's sprained knee is coming along just fine, and his progress has nothing to do with taking pain medicine.

  • Packers' defense looks for redeeming quality

    14 Jan 2012 | 4:26 pm
    It gives up yards but hopes to make up for that with takeaways from GiantsGREEN BAY — The reality of the Packers defense is somewhere between two numbers.

  • Offensive coordinator's loss stirs Packers' emotions

    11 Jan 2012 | 10:21 pm
    Philbin's status for Sunday's playoff game unclear as he mourns drowning death of old sonGREEN BAY — Every player on the Packers 53-man roster participated in practice Wednesday, a rarity at any time of the season, let alone in January.

  • Giants rely on Eli

    7 Jan 2012 | 3:46 pm
    QB Manning masterful in clutch and has team's confidence highAs one of the NFL's most tradition-rich franchises, the Giants always have taken an old-fashioned approach to winning.

  • Several obvious candidates for Bears GM

    4 Jan 2012 | 9:21 pm
    Here's look at 5 with solid reputationsThere was little activity Wednesday in the spacious general manager's office that overlooks the practice fields at Halas Hall.
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    chicagotribune.com - Phil Rogers

  • Power rankings: No. 20 Indians

    26 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm
    Indians need Sizemore and Jimenez to come back strongNo. 20 Indians: No. 11 in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Rockies.

  • Power rankings: No. 21 Mariners

    25 Jan 2012 | 6:47 pm
    Mariners need some offense to contendNo. 21 Mariners: 10th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Indians.

  • Power rankings: No. 22 Orioles

    24 Jan 2012 | 9:54 pm
    They aren't hopeless, but sure could use RipkenNo. 22 Orioles: 9th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Mariners.

  • With Prince, Tigers join baseball royalty

    24 Jan 2012 | 8:42 pm
    Sox seem consigned to lower echelon with Central foe among AL eliteForget retooling. The Tigers struck a blow Tuesday that suggests they might do what no team has done since the Albert Belle/Manny Ramirez/Jim Thome-era Indians. They are in position to dominate the Central and scare everyone else in the American League in the process.

  • Power rankings: No. 23 White Sox

    23 Jan 2012 | 8:14 pm
    New era begins on South Side minus Guillen, BuehrleOzzieball was always a misnomer.
 
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    Latest CareerBuilder Jobs: chicago, IL, US - 30 mile radius

  • Web Designer/Developer

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:57 am
    Details: One of Paladin’s long-standing Fortune 200 clients has an immediate need for a long-term, contract Web Designer/Front-End Developer to work on-site in the northwest suburbs.   Even if you’re not interested, please feel free to forward this opportunity

  • Business Manager for a Fine Art Gallery

    28 Jan 2012 | 6:42 am
    Details: Business Manager Accounting / Finance for a Fine Art Gallery with headquarters based in Chicago.   Successful candidate must have an understanding of everything needed on the accounting, finance side to run a small business, be willing and able to be

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    28 Jan 2012 | 6:11 am
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    Albany Park

  • Marshall Rosenthal, 1940-2012

    11 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    In 1968, Marshall Rosenthal, who had all but finished work for a doctorate in finance and economics, burned his dissertation and returned to Chicago. Back home, he tended bar at O'Rourke's, a literary hangout on North Avenue, and wrote poetry for the...

  • Man, 19, who was fatally shot, is thought to be city's first slaying victim in 2012

    3 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A 19-year-old man shot in the back seat of an SUV in the Albany Park neighborhood Monday morning was believed to be Chicago's first slaying victim of 2012. Nicholas Camacho, of the 6300 block of North Campbell Avenue, was pronounced dead at 4:24 a.m....

  • West Rogers Park man is city's first 2012 slaying

    2 Jan 2012 | 12:11 pm
    A 19-year-old man shot in the back seat of an SUV in the Albany Park neighborhood this morning apparently became Chicago's first slaying victim of 2012. Nicholas Camacho of the 6300 block of North Campell Avenue was pronounced dead at 4:24 a.m., at St....

  • Hyman 'Hy' Roth, 1937-2011

    29 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
    Artist Hyman "Hy" Roth produced fine art, cartoons and award-winning advertising illustrations over a 40-year career. "Whatever the assignment, he would always come up with a unique solution that was outstanding," said friend and retired advertising...

  • Man charged with DUI after striking man, 83, then driving into flower shop

    13 Dec 2011 | 9:56 am
    A Highland, Ind. man was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and other charges after he blew through a traffic light on Monday and critically injured an 83-year-old man waiting for the bus before driving into an Albany Park flower shop,...
 
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    Arlington Heights

  • Illinois' term paper honor roll

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Just 28 papers written by Illinois high school students have been published in The Concord Review since its inaugural issue in 1988. STUDENT/TOPIC/HOMETOWN/ISSUE Patricia Perozo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Chicago, winter 2011 David Tong, Macartney...

  • Arlington Heights man and wife dead in apparent murder-suicide

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    An Arlington Heights man and his wife were found dead of gunshot wounds Wednesday morning in an apparent murder-suicide. Police said they discovered the bodies of Angelita James, 56, and her husband, Roger James, 48, of the 900 block of East Shady Way,...

  • 2 dead in apparent murder-suicide

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    An Arlington Heights man and his wife were found dead of gunshot wounds Wednesday morning in an apparent murder-suicide. Police said they discovered the bodies of Angelita James, 56, and her husband, Roger James, 48, of the 900 block of East Shady Way,...

  • Arlington Heights officials upset over planned weekend courthouse closure

    20 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    An Arlington Heights man and his wife were found dead of gunshot wounds Wednesday morning in an apparent murder-suicide. Police said they discovered the bodies of Angelita James, 56, and her husband, Roger James, 48, of the 900 block of East Shady Way,...

  • Troubled by heftier tolls? Here are some free alternate routes

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:04 pm
    Drivers who are troubled by the hefty toll hike on the Illinois Tollway have many alternatives, some of which were mainstays for motorists before the toll roads were built starting in the 1950s. Four of them, Skokie Highway (U.S. Highway 41), Higgins...
 
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    Belmont Cragin

  • Sundance: Gina Rodriguez of 'Filly Brown' is the newest 'It' girl

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Gina Rodriguez's life has changed since "Filly Brown" was accepted into the Sundance Film Festival. Now everyone thinks she's rich and famous. After seeing a recent article about the 27-year-old's starring role in the hip-hop drama, Rodriguez's...

  • Teen shot at open window dies

    10 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Elena Bahena wept Monday outside her Northwest Side home as she remembered her brother as a joking teen whose life was cut short when he was fatally shot as he peered out a window of his family home early Sunday. Valentin Bahena, 17, died a day after the...

  • Chicago program turns vacant condo buildings into affordable rentals

    6 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    As the housing market enters a new year of watching and waiting for stability to return, there is also some action afoot: Efforts are expected to take shape to tackle the vast swath of empty homes and fill them with residents — and in many cases,...

  • Austin, Bridgeport each see 2 homicides

    26 Oct 2011 | 4:45 pm
    Austin and Bridgeport each saw two homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. In Austin, two men, ages 20 and 24, were shot to death Tuesday in the 200 block of South Laramie Avenue, police said. Austin has logged 22...

  • Police: NW Side man killed at his birthday party, another man wounded

    23 Oct 2011 | 4:43 am
    A man was killed at his birthday party and another man was wounded when a masked gunman shot them in an apartment in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood early this morning, police said. The two men were inside a second-floor apartment in the 2100 block of...
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    Beverly

  • Coming up at Spertus

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Here are upcoming events and exhibitions at the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, 610 S. Michigan Ave. For more information, call 312-322-1773 or visit spertus.edu. "Uncovered & Rediscovered: Stories of Jewish Chicago. Chapter Five: Movers, Shakers,...

  • Black teen says 3 boys committed racist attack

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Joshua Merritt said he had no reason to be suspicious when one of his friends texted him, asking him to hang out with two other teenagers they both knew. But after Merritt, 17, arrived at the home of one of the boys in Chicago's East Beverly neighborhood...

  • Family of slain Beverly teen sues accused, family

    20 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The parents of a Chicago teenager who police said was killed after another Chicago teen punched him at an Indiana beach July 4 filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday against the teen accused of throwing the punch, his sister and his mother. James...

  • Family of Mt. Carmel student killed in Indiana fight files lawsuit

    19 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    The parents of a Chicago teenager who police said was killed after another Chicago teen punched him at an Indiana beach on July 4th filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday against the teen accused of throwing the punch, his sister and his mother. James...

  • Where is Wright?

    17 Jan 2012 | 8:45 pm
    Since retiring from Trinity United Church of Christ in 2008, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., 70, has kept a relatively low profile. He has declined most interview requests, including one for this story. Wright has since moved from his historic home in...
 
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    Bolingbrook

  • Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan wants Westwood College shut down, students to get a refund

    19 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Todd Brown, 24, of Bolingbrook, thought he was doing everything right to land a job as a state trooper. He graduated in 2009 with a criminal justice degree from the DuPage campus of Westwood College. He passed the written and physical tests to join the...

  • Family of gunman in Villa Park killings never foresaw violence, relative says

    18 Jan 2012 | 7:39 pm
    The new year brought little promise for Cedric Anderson. He faced a possible prison term for a heroin conviction, and the woman he considered his girlfriend planned to move to Alabama with her sons to be near her mother. But, even with Anderson's...

  • Man shoots self after slaying 4, setting house ablaze, authorities say

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Ursula Nailor was looking forward to moving out of her rented home in DuPage County and heading to Alabama with her two sons to be closer to family, her mother said. "She was waiting on her income taxes," Doris Wallace said of her daughter. "She was...

  • Relative: Suspect in slaying of 4 'was a time bomb'

    17 Jan 2012 | 7:25 pm
    Ursula Nailor was looking forward to moving out of her rented home in DuPage County and heading to Alabama with her two sons to be closer to other family members, her mother said. “She was waiting on her income taxes,” Doris Wallace said of...

  • Farewell Illinois

    9 Jan 2012 | 10:50 am
    Goodbye Illinois. Tell your Democratic governor going to jail to say hello to the Republican governor already in jail. Goodbye Illinois. Have fun spending all the money you are stealing from commuters by doubling tolls – I'm sure it will only take a...
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    Bridgeport (Chicago, Illinois)

  • Sonnen victory likely nets title shot

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:25 pm
    Chael Sonnen's fight against Michael Bisping on Saturday night at the United Center isn't the main event. But don't tell him that. The middleweights will meet in the co-main event of UFC on Fox along with Rashad Evans vs. Phil Davis in the Ultimate...

  • Reputed mobster convicted of plotting crimes in his 70s

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A reputed Chicago mobster was found guilty Thursday of plotting while in his 70s to rob an armored car and to break into the family home of a deceased Chicago Outfit boss. Arthur Rachel, 73, a longtime confidant of alleged mob figure Joseph Scalise,...

  • Evans close to another title shot

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:28 pm
    Rashad Evans has been here before — and it hasn't worked out very well. A perfect storm of injuries to Evans, injuries to his opponents and a criticized decision to wait on the sidelines for a promised title shot have meant the Chicago-based...

  • Trial begins for reputed mobster who rejected plea deal

    20 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Joann Lascola was sipping tea at her kitchen table, visiting with some of the many friends and extended family members she often hosts at her Bridgeport home, when she was startled by a loud bang. Through the windows she saw a frantic rush of federal...

  • Parents, grandparents celebrating family with tattoos

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    About five years ago, Suzanne Willard spent a few hundred bucks and bought herself a one-of-a-kind Mother's Day gift. It wasn't diamonds or pearls or a fancy red sports car. It was a portrait of her grown daughter, Tanya, tattooed on her right shoulder...
 
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    Brighton Park

  • Dozens protest CME Group incentives

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Dozens of moms, dads, community leaders and young activists chanted slogans Tuesday as they protested tax breaks extended to CME Group Inc. and presented a golden toilet wrapped with a red ribbon at its headquarters. "We are here to speak to chairman...

  • 2 boys shot on Southwest Side

    6 Jan 2012 | 7:20 pm
    Someone shot two teen boys this afternoon in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side during an attack police said was gang-related. A 13-year-old was wounded in the shoulder while a 17-year-old was shot in the right foot about 2:10 p.m. in...

  • Man shot while driving in Brighton Park

    23 Dec 2011 | 12:46 am
    A 21-year-old man driving a vehicle was shot by a group of men in another vehicle about 12:20 a.m. on Friday, according to police. He was driving on the 3800 block of South Rockwell Street, according to a release from the Chicago Police Department's News...

  • Man killed, boys 10 and 14 wounded in separate shootings

    1 Nov 2011 | 12:51 am
    A 10-year-old boy and another 14 were wounded and a 20-year-old man killed in separate shootings Monday night.  A spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office said Daniel Cisneros, of the 4200 block of South Campbell Avenue, was pronounced...

  • Cops: Woman charged after pelting husband with cupcakes

    16 Oct 2011 | 2:46 pm
    In the heat of a domestic dispute, a Chicago woman pelted her husband with cupcakes before police arrived to arrest her Saturday night, authorities said. The sweet evidence of her crime was visible on her husband's head and shirt when officers...
 
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    Calumet City

  • Woman, 66, dies after Calumet City house fire

    2 Jan 2012 | 3:30 pm
    A 66-year-old woman was pronounced dead this afternoon after a fire in her Calumet City home, officials said. The fire broke out at the woman's home on the 400 block of Buffalo Avenue, officials said. Elizabeth Klimczak was pronounced dead on the...

  • South suburban, Chicago officials ask Quinn not to close Tinley Park Mental Health Center

    6 Oct 2011 | 4:35 pm
    A Calumet City man was killed when his motorcycle crashed into the rear of a stopped car in Kankakee County, state police said. The motorcyclist's passenger was also injured, but not critically, authorities said. Killed was Anthony J. Perry, 54,...

  • 2 in Calumet City die from CO intoxication

    25 Sep 2011 | 1:37 pm
    Examinations done today determined that two people found in a Calumet City home Saturday died of carbon monoxide intoxication.  Charlotte Taylor, 64, and Anthony Harris, 45, were both pronounced dead at their home in the 200 block of Webb Street Saturday...

  • Sentence upheld in murder of ex-CLTV host's parents

    1 Sep 2011 | 1:43 am
    INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a 120-year prison sentence for a man convicted of murdering the parents of a former Chicago television talk show host. The Times of Munster reports the court ruled 3-0 Wednesday that 19-year-...

  • South suburban man dies in motorcycle crash in Kankakee County

    29 Aug 2011 | 10:45 pm
    A Calumet City man was killed when his motorcycle crashed into the rear of a stopped car in Kankakee County, state police said. The motorcyclist's passenger was also injured, but not critically, authorities said. Killed was Anthony J. Perry, 54,...
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    Carol Stream

  • Carol Stream man gets 40 years for '08 slaying of mother

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:37 pm
    A man with a history of mental illness was sentenced to 40 years in prison Monday for stabbing his mother to death and then defiling her body with household chemicals. Robert Lyons, 39, had been found guilty last year of the March 14, 2008 first-degree...

  • Carol Stream man: I 'lost control' before killing mom

    20 Jan 2012 | 6:55 pm
    In a long statement today to the judge who could send him to prison for life, Robert Lyons admitted stabbing his mother to death in 2008 and said he snapped after 27 years of verbal abuse from her. The remarks came during a 45-minute statement the...

  • Plea deal in fatal truck-train crash

    19 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A Carol Stream man whose girlfriend died after his pickup truck collided with a freight train locomotive at a crossing in Itasca last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated driving under the influence. In a plea deal with DuPage County prosecutors,...

  • Man pleads guilty in death of girlfriend in train-car crash

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:10 pm
    A Carol Stream man who drove his pickup into a freight train locomotive, killing his girlfriend, pleaded guilty today to aggravated driving under the influence. In a plea deal with DuPage County prosecutors, Jeffrey S. Fisher, 40, admitted to being under...

  • Police: Pair used stolen credit card, crashed car before arrest

    11 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    A Carol Stream man who drove his pickup into a freight train locomotive, killing his girlfriend, pleaded guilty today to aggravated driving under the influence. In a plea deal with DuPage County prosecutors, Jeffrey S. Fisher, 40, admitted to being under...
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    Chatham

  • Wal-Mart to open Chatham Supercenter

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to open its long-anticipated Supercenter in Chatham on Wednesday, the culmination of a seven-year battle to establish a store on the former steel company site. The 157,000-square-foot store is the Bentonville, Ark.-based...

  • Wal-mart will open its long-awaited supercenter in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood Wednesday.

    24 Jan 2012 | 10:22 am

  • 3 shot overnight on South Side

    20 Jan 2012 | 4:43 am
    Three people were shot on the South Side late Thursday and early Friday, including a 47-year-old man injured as he struggled with an armed robber in Chatham, police said. That man was walking on the 600 block of East 89th Street about 3:30 a.m. when...

  • Emanuel joins U.S. mayors supporting same-sex marriage

    20 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday that he will join mayors from across the U.S. in supporting the rights of same-sex couples to marry. Mayors for the Freedom to Marry will be launched as part of the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Washington. Emanuel...

  • Autopsy: Woman's death caused in part from traffic crash injuries

    19 Jan 2012 | 2:54 pm
    A South Side woman with multiple health issues has died after a traffic crash in the Chatham neighborhood last November, authorities said today. Kim Ware, 41, of the 5700 block of South Indiana Avenue, was pronounced dead at 3:05 p.m. Wednesday at the...
 
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    Chicago Heights

  • Woman's body found in Chicago Heights

    21 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm
    The cause of death for an unidentified woman whose body was found in the snow Friday in the 1300 block of Otto Boulevard in Chicago Heights is pending a police investigation, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Police in the south...

  • Tollway approves $132 million in construction projects. including disputed ones

    15 Dec 2011 | 2:51 pm
    The Illinois Tollway today awarded some $132 million in construction contracts for roadway and bridge rehabilitation work that will start in 2012. The package includes seven contracts that tollway board member David Gonzalez had balked at approving...

  • Tollway board member puts up road block to new construction

    14 Dec 2011 | 4:35 pm
    The cause of death for an unidentified woman whose body was found in the snow Friday in the 1300 block of Otto Boulevard in Chicago Heights is pending a police investigation, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. Police in the south...

  • Chicago Hts. man killed in Iroquois County crash

    12 Dec 2011 | 8:19 am
    A Chicago Heights man was killed over the weekend after his car struck a tractor-trailer in Iroquois County, police said today. The accident happened near Clifton at the intersection of U.S. Route 45/52 and 2900 North Road at about 2:15 p.m. Saturday,...

  • 19-year-old Chicago Heights woman killed

    12 Nov 2011 | 9:44 am
    A 19-year-old woman was killed four blocks from her Chicago Heights home early Saturday morning, according to authorities. Danielle Simmons, of the 400 block of West 16th Street, was shot and killed while standing on the 200 block of West 14th Place,...
 
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    Clarendon Hills

  • Athletic club personnel 'work out' happy ending to pattern of thefts

    6 Jan 2012 | 11:09 pm
    Staffers from the upscale East Bank Club in River North found it pays to be in shape after chasing down and apprehending a man who'd stolen nearly $2,500 from the lockers of six men on Thursday and Friday, police said. Charles Kurilik, 33, of Pontiac,...

  • Top stories of the year on TribLocal

    5 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Staffers from the upscale East Bank Club in River North found it pays to be in shape after chasing down and apprehending a man who'd stolen nearly $2,500 from the lockers of six men on Thursday and Friday, police said. Charles Kurilik, 33, of Pontiac,...

  • Former barista charged with stealing credit cards

    7 Nov 2011 | 9:34 pm
    Staffers from the upscale East Bank Club in River North found it pays to be in shape after chasing down and apprehending a man who'd stolen nearly $2,500 from the lockers of six men on Thursday and Friday, police said. Charles Kurilik, 33, of Pontiac,...

  • DuPage State’s Attorney Berlin to seek full term

    15 Jun 2011 | 4:33 pm
    Staffers from the upscale East Bank Club in River North found it pays to be in shape after chasing down and apprehending a man who'd stolen nearly $2,500 from the lockers of six men on Thursday and Friday, police said. Charles Kurilik, 33, of Pontiac,...

  • DuPage State's Attorney Berlin to seek full term

    15 Jun 2011 | 11:56 am
    Backed by top leaders of the Republican Party, DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin announced today that he will seek a full four-year term in 2012. Berlin, of Clarendon Hills, was appointed state’s attorney last December to replace...
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    Crete

  • Michigan man pleads guilty in fatal DUI at Balmoral Park

    10 Jan 2012 | 2:52 pm
    A Michigan man who killed a woman when he crashed his truck into a horse she was riding has pleaded guilty to aggravated drunken driving. The Will County prosecutor's office said Monday that 42-year-old Angus Lake of Riverdale, Mich., faces up to 14...

  • New charges in Crete Township accident that killed two in March

    27 Dec 2011 | 1:34 pm
    Will County prosecutors have filed felony DUI charges against a University Park man who was driving a car that struck a tree in March, killing two passengers. Prosecutors upgraded the charges against Velar Mayfield, 24, who was behind the wheel of a...

  • Suspect in child sex case commits suicide

    21 Dec 2011 | 9:35 pm
    A Michigan man who killed a woman when he crashed his truck into a horse she was riding has pleaded guilty to aggravated drunken driving. The Will County prosecutor's office said Monday that 42-year-old Angus Lake of Riverdale, Mich., faces up to 14...

  • Mike Helfgot on boys basketball | St. Viator quietly rolls through first nine games

    20 Dec 2011 | 4:11 pm
    A year after St. Joseph left the East Suburban Catholic Conference for the Chicago Catholic League, there does not appear to be much of a difference between the two leagues. Without the fanfare of No. 4 Seton or No. 10 De La Salle, unranked St. Viator...

  • Cardinal Bernardin School receives $50,000 from U.S. Cellular

    21 Nov 2011 | 4:35 pm
    A year after St. Joseph left the East Suburban Catholic Conference for the Chicago Catholic League, there does not appear to be much of a difference between the two leagues. Without the fanfare of No. 4 Seton or No. 10 De La Salle, unranked St. Viator...
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    Deer Park (Cook, Illinois)

  • Using your noodle with noodles

    3 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Q: Why put a bit of oil into pasta dough? Is it taste or to keep the fresh pasta from sticking? My grandmother did not add oil or water. I would (also) like to find out how long to leave fresh pasta on the counter before cooking, maybe in plastic wrap if...

  • Deerfield chamber: Stop by Lake Cook Road restaurants

    15 Jun 2011 | 4:33 pm
    Q: Why put a bit of oil into pasta dough? Is it taste or to keep the fresh pasta from sticking? My grandmother did not add oil or water. I would (also) like to find out how long to leave fresh pasta on the counter before cooking, maybe in plastic wrap if...

  • Suburban natives see success with improv group

    8 Jun 2011 | 4:34 pm
    Q: Why put a bit of oil into pasta dough? Is it taste or to keep the fresh pasta from sticking? My grandmother did not add oil or water. I would (also) like to find out how long to leave fresh pasta on the counter before cooking, maybe in plastic wrap if...

  • Goodbye Stoney River Steakhouse

    28 Jan 2011 | 4:33 pm
    Q: Why put a bit of oil into pasta dough? Is it taste or to keep the fresh pasta from sticking? My grandmother did not add oil or water. I would (also) like to find out how long to leave fresh pasta on the counter before cooking, maybe in plastic wrap if...

  • Three charged with open alcohol in public, and more

    26 Nov 2010 | 4:33 pm
    Q: Why put a bit of oil into pasta dough? Is it taste or to keep the fresh pasta from sticking? My grandmother did not add oil or water. I would (also) like to find out how long to leave fresh pasta on the counter before cooking, maybe in plastic wrap if...
 
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    Douglas

  • Off-duty cop guilty in fatal DUI

    19 Jan 2012 | 7:01 am
    Trenton Booker's family cried silently behind a glass partition in a Cook County courtroom Wednesday as Chicago police Officer Richard Bolling was convicted in the 13-year-old boy's death in a hit-and-run. The boy's father, Terrence Booker, clutched a...

  • Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman square off in friendly debate

    12 Dec 2011 | 3:25 pm
    Republican presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich and rival Jon Huntsman Jr. squared off Monday afternoon at a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate on national security and foreign policy. The event, sponsored by the St. Anselm College Republicans and hosted by...

  • Zombie apocalypse set for Saturday in Elgin

    24 Oct 2011 | 4:34 pm
    Trenton Booker's family cried silently behind a glass partition in a Cook County courtroom Wednesday as Chicago police Officer Richard Bolling was convicted in the 13-year-old boy's death in a hit-and-run. The boy's father, Terrence Booker, clutched a...

  • Police make arrests in heroin investigation

    11 Feb 2011 | 4:34 pm
    Trenton Booker's family cried silently behind a glass partition in a Cook County courtroom Wednesday as Chicago police Officer Richard Bolling was convicted in the 13-year-old boy's death in a hit-and-run. The boy's father, Terrence Booker, clutched a...

  • Full Body Scanners Coming To Armstrong International Airport

    20 Sep 2010 | 12:00 am
    Whether you like it or not full body scanners are coming to Louis Armstrong International Airport. ABC26 News Reporter Vanessa Bolano has details. The Department of Homeland Security is getting fancy when it comes to keeping you safe. They say Advanced...
 
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    Downers Grove

  • DeVry shares fall 11% on sliding student enrollments

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:45 am
    Shares of DeVry Inc. fell as much as 11 percent on Friday, a day after the for-profit education provider posted weak second-quarter results as student enrollments continued to decline. Enrollments at for-profit colleges like DeVry have taken a hit after...

  • Downers North expansion could cost more than expected

    24 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Shares of DeVry Inc. fell as much as 11 percent on Friday, a day after the for-profit education provider posted weak second-quarter results as student enrollments continued to decline. Enrollments at for-profit colleges like DeVry have taken a hit after...

  • Snow cripples commute, cancels flights and moves on

    20 Jan 2012 | 9:42 pm
    With last winter's blizzard still fresh in their minds, Chicago officials detoured all CTA buses off Lake Shore Drive as a snowstorm hunkered down over the area, crippling the evening commute and grounding more than 800 flights. The storm began...

  • Arrest announced in 1997 DuPage County slaying

    20 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Shares of DeVry Inc. fell as much as 11 percent on Friday, a day after the for-profit education provider posted weak second-quarter results as student enrollments continued to decline. Enrollments at for-profit colleges like DeVry have taken a hit after...

  • Cops: Seat-belt violation leads to felony drug charge

    19 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Shares of DeVry Inc. fell as much as 11 percent on Friday, a day after the for-profit education provider posted weak second-quarter results as student enrollments continued to decline. Enrollments at for-profit colleges like DeVry have taken a hit after...
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    Elgin

  • Illinois' term paper honor roll

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Just 28 papers written by Illinois high school students have been published in The Concord Review since its inaugural issue in 1988. STUDENT/TOPIC/HOMETOWN/ISSUE Patricia Perozo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Chicago, winter 2011 David Tong, Macartney...

  • Kirk faces a potentially long recovery from stroke

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    First-term Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk faces a potentially long road back from a weekend stroke that his neurosurgeon said could leave the lawmaker with lasting physical damage but also a full mental recovery. The 52-year-old North Shore politician...

  • New Elgin exhibit focuses on all things tattoo

    24 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Just 28 papers written by Illinois high school students have been published in The Concord Review since its inaugural issue in 1988. STUDENT/TOPIC/HOMETOWN/ISSUE Patricia Perozo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Chicago, winter 2011 David Tong, Macartney...

  • Elgin casino wants to up its game against Rivers

    24 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Just 28 papers written by Illinois high school students have been published in The Concord Review since its inaugural issue in 1988. STUDENT/TOPIC/HOMETOWN/ISSUE Patricia Perozo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Chicago, winter 2011 David Tong, Macartney...

  • Illinois high school boys basketball: Elgin-Huntley meeting at Sears Centre deserves attention

    20 Jan 2012 | 9:35 pm
    Just 28 papers written by Illinois high school students have been published in The Concord Review since its inaugural issue in 1988. STUDENT/TOPIC/HOMETOWN/ISSUE Patricia Perozo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Chicago, winter 2011 David Tong, Macartney...
 
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    Englewood

  • Friday's Scores

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm
    Alden-Hebron 48, Mooseheart 46 Althoff Catholic 48, Marion 34 Alton Marquette 62, East Alton-Wood River 28 Andrew 66, Lincoln Way West 30 Anna-Jonesboro 50, DuQuoin 47, OT Aquin 65, Durand 48 Armstrong 45, Chrisman 31 Arthur-Okaw Christian...

  • Authorities find nothing after bomb threat forces evacuation of South Side high school

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:35 pm
    An Englewood neighborhood public high school was evacuated this morning following a bomb threat, but investigators found nothing and students were expected to be let back in the building, officials said. Police responded about 10:50 a.m. after a bomb...

  • Man charged in girlfriend's shooting death

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:55 am
    Charges have been filed against a 29-year-old Chicago man in the shooting death of his girlfriend in their South Side home early Tuesday. Police said Ronnie R. Ward, 29, of the 5600 block of South Perry Avenue, fled after the shooting but turned...

  • Don't protect failing schools

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Grumbling about the longer school day is nothing compared to what lawmakers are up to. State Rep. Cynthia Soto, a Chicago Democrat, says she'll push a bill this year to stop the Chicago Board of Education from closing or overhauling a handful of its...

  • Chicago police unveil crime-fighting strategy for areas on South and West sides

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Chicago police officers from several specialized units will focus on two districts where nearly a quarter of the city's murders and shootings took place last year under a new strategy laid out Monday by Superintendent Garry McCarthy. Officers from...
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    Evanston

  • Preckwinkle checks out Evanston's progress in rehabbing foreclosed properties

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle visited Evanston on Thursday morning for a tour of how the city has spent an $18 million federal grant to be used for rehabbing foreclosed properties. After a brief overview of the federal Neighborhood...

  • Preckwinkle tours site of Evanston housing program

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:36 pm
    Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle visited Evanston on Thursday morning for a tour of how the city has spent an $18 million federal grant to be used for rehabbing foreclosed properties. After a brief overview of the federal Neighborhood...

  • Veolia lawsuit accuses Evanston of harassing firm over transfer station

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle visited Evanston on Thursday morning for a tour of how the city has spent an $18 million federal grant to be used for rehabbing foreclosed properties. After a brief overview of the federal Neighborhood...

  • Man dies after October shooting

    24 Jan 2012 | 3:06 pm
    Chicago police have launched a homicide investigation after a 27-year-old man who was shot in October was pronounced dead Monday evening, officials said today. Laurel Brown of the 6100 block of North Sheridan Road was pronounced dead at 10:35 p.m. at...

  • Elaine Hirsch, 1934-2012

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Elaine Hirsch, 77, a volunteer with several organizations including the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation in Evanston and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, died of brain cancer Tuesday, Jan. 3, at her home in Highland Park, said her...
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    Flossmoor

  • Illinois' term paper honor roll

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Just 28 papers written by Illinois high school students have been published in The Concord Review since its inaugural issue in 1988. STUDENT/TOPIC/HOMETOWN/ISSUE Patricia Perozo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Chicago, winter 2011 David Tong, Macartney...

  • Tuck scores 41 to lead No. 2 Bolingbrook past Homewood-Flossmoor

    6 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Just 28 papers written by Illinois high school students have been published in The Concord Review since its inaugural issue in 1988. STUDENT/TOPIC/HOMETOWN/ISSUE Patricia Perozo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Chicago, winter 2011 David Tong, Macartney...

  • Football | Illinois-bound J.J. Robertson dynamite for No. 7 Lincoln-Way East

    16 Sep 2011 | 8:24 pm
    The six-point deficit could have been much worse. One short pass to J.J. Robertson cured a half full of ills. Robertson had 230 yards on five receptions, including a 65-yard catch and run Friday that gave No. 6 Lincoln-Way East the lead for good in a...

  • Softball | All-State special mention

    16 Jun 2011 | 8:26 pm
    Alton Marquette: Alexis Silkwood, So., P. Barrington: Elizabeth Owen, Sr., LF; Loren Krzysko, So., 3B. Beecher: Savannah Soppet, So., 3B. Benet: Julianne Rurka, Fr., 3B; Allyson Staats, Sr., P. Bethalto Civic Memorial: Allison Hill, Jr., 1B/OF. Cary-...

  • Soccer | Joe Trost's Corner Kicks blog: Underwood set to replace Marksberry at Wheaton Academy

    2 Jun 2011 | 6:22 pm
    It will be a bittersweet weekend for Wheaton Academy coach Scott Marksberry and Naperville North coach Brent Terada. As reported here earlier this season, Marksberry and Terada are resigning from their positions at the conclusion of the season....
 
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    Garfield Park

  • Officer bitten in hand during school fight

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:09 pm
    A brawl that erupted in the lunchroom of an East Garfield Park neighborhood high school today left four female students under arrest and the Chicago Police officer who tried to break it up bitten in the hand. Danielle McClinton, who police say “...

  • Rooms at Chicago conservatory reopen after storm

    22 Jan 2012 | 10:15 pm
    Chicago's Garfield Park Conservatory has reopened all its rooms after a hailstorm last year caused extensive damage. However, conservatory officials say the greenhouse still requires work, including needed glass replacement. Officials opened the...

  • Relative worried about mental health of man suspected in two homicides Friday

    22 Jan 2012 | 8:31 pm
    Saint White worried about her grandson's mental health after their last contact nine years ago, a visit during which he said he was hearing voices, she said. On Sunday, White said she was saddened but not surprised to learn that police suspected her...

  • West Side man tied to several robberies, 2 sex assaults

    19 Jan 2012 | 11:10 am
    A West Side man whom Chicago police called a one-man crime spree was charged this morning in connection with three West Side armed robberies, including one in which he sexually assaulted two of his victims, authorities said this morning. Darrion...

  • Museums

    19 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Cantigny Park 1S151 Winfield Road, Wheaton; 630-668-5161, cantigny.org The 500-acre park with formal gardens, picnic spots and campgrounds also has two history-rich museums. Taking a tour of the Robert R. McCormick Museum, you can get a look at the life...
 
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    Glen Ellyn

  • Rehabbed snowy owl is set free in DuPage County

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:57 pm
    Garnering the attention of a starlet stepping from a limo on Oscars night, a rare snowy owl rehabilitated after being struck by an SUV eight weeks ago was released into the wild today and floated northeast over the tree tops of a DuPage County Forest...

  • Injured snowy owl released after rehabilitation

    23 Jan 2012 | 11:10 am
    A snowy owl struck by a SUV in November has been released into a forest preserve in suburban Chicago. The Daily Herald reports (http://bit.ly/yO6STx) the bird was released Monday morning into Pratt's Wayne Woods Forest Preserve near Bartlett. The bird...

  • DuPage Woodworkers January 25 Meeting

    18 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    A snowy owl struck by a SUV in November has been released into a forest preserve in suburban Chicago. The Daily Herald reports (http://bit.ly/yO6STx) the bird was released Monday morning into Pratt's Wayne Woods Forest Preserve near Bartlett. The bird...

  • Nonprofit group hires Glen Ellyn man as CEO

    17 Jan 2012 | 9:35 pm
    A snowy owl struck by a SUV in November has been released into a forest preserve in suburban Chicago. The Daily Herald reports (http://bit.ly/yO6STx) the bird was released Monday morning into Pratt's Wayne Woods Forest Preserve near Bartlett. The bird...

  • PolyChromatic: "Tradigitalist" Artworks by Randal Stringer at EAG Gallery

    12 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    A snowy owl struck by a SUV in November has been released into a forest preserve in suburban Chicago. The Daily Herald reports (http://bit.ly/yO6STx) the bird was released Monday morning into Pratt's Wayne Woods Forest Preserve near Bartlett. The bird...
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    Glenview

  • Pastor of Glenview church resigns

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Details surrounding the recent resignation of a Glenview church's pastor for alleged inappropriate speech remained cloudy Wednesday. The Rev. Eric Dawson resigned Friday as pastor of St. Philip Lutheran Church amid allegations of inappropriate language...

  • Glenview pastor resigns amid allegations of ‘inappropriate language’

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Details surrounding the recent resignation of a Glenview church's pastor for alleged inappropriate speech remained cloudy Wednesday. The Rev. Eric Dawson resigned Friday as pastor of St. Philip Lutheran Church amid allegations of inappropriate language...

  • Northbrook, Glenview prepare for second winter storm of the season

    20 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Details surrounding the recent resignation of a Glenview church's pastor for alleged inappropriate speech remained cloudy Wednesday. The Rev. Eric Dawson resigned Friday as pastor of St. Philip Lutheran Church amid allegations of inappropriate language...

  • Illinois Tool Works rises to five-month high

    17 Jan 2012 | 2:39 pm
    An Illinois Tool Works shareholder is likely to push the company to pare back its operations, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. Relational Investors, an investment firm based in San Diego, owns about 2 percent of ITW and has been...

  • Wilmette, Jan. 9-12: Purse stolen from vehicle outside library, and more

    13 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    An Illinois Tool Works shareholder is likely to push the company to pare back its operations, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. Relational Investors, an investment firm based in San Diego, owns about 2 percent of ITW and has been...
 
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    Grand Boulevard

  • Chicago program turns vacant condo buildings into affordable rentals

    6 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    As the housing market enters a new year of watching and waiting for stability to return, there is also some action afoot: Efforts are expected to take shape to tackle the vast swath of empty homes and fill them with residents — and in many cases,...

  • 2 double homicides in 2 days in Chicago

    28 Dec 2011 | 2:30 pm
    Austin, Englewood and the Near West Side each saw two homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. In Austin, a 27-year-old man was shot to death Saturday in the 500 block of South Cicero Avenue, police said. Three days...

  • Protesters against plan to shutter mental health clinics end 10-hour sit-in at City Hall

    15 Nov 2011 | 9:42 pm
    Opponents of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to close half of the city's mental health clinics protested outside his office for about 10 hours Tuesday, finally leaving around 10:30 p.m. but vowing to continue their fight to keep the clinics open. The...

  • October 11: Midday Fix - National Spa Week

    7 Oct 2011 | 9:07 am
    National Spa Week October 10-16 For more information about participating Chicago area spas: www.spaweek.com The spas featured on today's show: Appease, Inc. Mobile Spa www.sppease2you.com Brennan Massage & Spa 3700 Grand Boulevard Brookfield www....

  • 3 South Side communities see 2 homicides

    18 Aug 2011 | 7:03 am
    Three South Side community areas each have recorded two homicides this month, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. In Chicago Lawn, a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed Tuesday in the 3000 block of West 64th Street, police said (story on...
 
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    Hampshire

  • Obama back in Chicago for string of fundraisers

    12 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    President Barack Obama returned to the comfort of a supportive hometown Wednesday to raise campaign cash but also faced up to the discomfort of trying to re-energize a political base once built upon hope and change. Speaking at the first of three...

  • Illinois primary ballot fills out before deadline

    7 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Surprise Iowa caucus near-winner Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich filed Friday to secure spots on Illinois' March 20 primary ballot, adding their names to those of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Perry. On the last day to submit paperwork, Santorum filed...

  • Santorum, Gingrich file to get on Illinois primary ballot

    6 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Surprise Iowa caucus near-winner Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich filed Friday to secure a spot on Illinois’ March 20 primary ballot, adding their names to those of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Perry. On the last day to submit paperwork,...

  • There's still time for my prediction to come true!

    29 Nov 2011 | 4:32 pm
    Surprise Iowa caucus near-winner Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich filed Friday to secure a spot on Illinois’ March 20 primary ballot, adding their names to those of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Perry. On the last day to submit paperwork,...

  • Man gets 7 years for crash that killed 4 friends

    28 Nov 2011 | 4:34 pm
    Surprise Iowa caucus near-winner Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich filed Friday to secure a spot on Illinois’ March 20 primary ballot, adding their names to those of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Perry. On the last day to submit paperwork,...
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    Harvard

  • Voice of the People, Jan. 17

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Third parties In a recent column, Paul E. Peterson disparaged third parties, arguing that they are "illicit, almost unconstitutional" ("Resisting the song of the third-party siren," Perspective, Jan. 8). Nothing could be further from the truth. In...

  • Woodstock policeman named McHenry officer of the year

    16 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Third parties In a recent column, Paul E. Peterson disparaged third parties, arguing that they are "illicit, almost unconstitutional" ("Resisting the song of the third-party siren," Perspective, Jan. 8). Nothing could be further from the truth. In...

  • Woman charged with murder found unfit to stand trial

    12 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Third parties In a recent column, Paul E. Peterson disparaged third parties, arguing that they are "illicit, almost unconstitutional" ("Resisting the song of the third-party siren," Perspective, Jan. 8). Nothing could be further from the truth. In...

  • County Board joins electrical aggregation debate

    22 Dec 2011 | 4:34 pm
    Third parties In a recent column, Paul E. Peterson disparaged third parties, arguing that they are "illicit, almost unconstitutional" ("Resisting the song of the third-party siren," Perspective, Jan. 8). Nothing could be further from the truth. In...

  • Woman held on $2 million bond in infant stabbing

    17 Dec 2011 | 9:28 am
    A woman charged with attempted murder was ordered held on $2 million bond today after police found a 9-month-old boy stabbed in the head in a residence in northwest suburban Harvard Friday morning. Claudia Mejia, 36, of the 500 block of West McKinley...
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    Highland Park (Cook, Illinois)

  • Elaine Hirsch, 1934-2012

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Elaine Hirsch, 77, a volunteer with several organizations including the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation in Evanston and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, died of brain cancer Tuesday, Jan. 3, at her home in Highland Park, said her...

  • Don't jab at accelerator

    11 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Q: I'm always amused by letters complaining about poor mileage. I have a 2006 Lexus GS300 and consistently get 18-20 city and 34-40 (depending on engine RPM) highway. Sure, synthetic oil, tire pressure and not using cruise control, (it can't anticipate)...

  • Highland Park man accused of crossing state line for sex with minor

    5 Jan 2012 | 8:36 pm
    A Highland Park man accused of seeking sex with an underage Wisconsin girl he met online was awaiting trial on similar allegations in Lake County at the time of his arrest in Milwaukee, officials said. Paul Gary Rothschild, 40, was indicted Thursday on...

  • As many as eight people could be charged in the brutal New Year’s Eve attack of an 18-year-old Highland Park woman

    4 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    A Highland Park man accused of seeking sex with an underage Wisconsin girl he met online was awaiting trial on similar allegations in Lake County at the time of his arrest in Milwaukee, officials said. Paul Gary Rothschild, 40, was indicted Thursday on...

  • Logan Square sexual assault involved as many as 8, police say

    3 Jan 2012 | 6:09 pm
    Emotional but grateful for his community's support, the father of a young suburban woman who police said was sexually assaulted and beaten in Chicago said his daughter is home and recovering. Meanwhile, police are investigating whether as many as eight...
 
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    Hoffman Estates

  • SPOTLIGHT: Public defenders share marriage, job

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:10 am
    Defense attorneys Jim Mullenix and Julie Koehler make a pretty good team -- in and out of the courtroom. Professionally, they're 11-2. Of the 13 cases they've tried together for the Cook County public defender's office, seven were acquittals, three...

  • Bail set at $500,000 for Hoffman Estates man in child molestation case

    25 Jan 2012 | 2:31 pm
    A judge set bail at $500,000 today for a 48-year-old Hoffman Estates man accused of sexually molesting a 7-year-old girl. Thomas D. Cook, of the 400 block of Bode Road, was charged in the Rolling Meadows branch of Cook County Circuit Court with predatory...

  • Archer Daniels Midland to cut 1,000 jobs

    11 Jan 2012 | 11:06 am
    Agribusiness conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland Co. announced plans Wednesday to cut 1,000 jobs, or about 3 percent of its total workforce, with the majority of the positions being salaried staff. The move will cut about 15 percent of the Decatur-...

  • Quinn signs bill to double tax credit for poor

    11 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Low-income families across Illinois will get a little extra cash in their pockets under a measure Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law Tuesday that doubles a tax credit for the working poor. The increase to the state's earned income tax credit will be phased...

  • Ones to Watch in 2012

    8 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Caterpillar will add 1,400 jobs at a yet-to-be-disclosed U.S. location. Chicago will get its first economic growth plan. And CME Group will be under federal investigation. In this year's Ones to Watch feature, we tell you about eight executives who will...
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    Hometown

  • Twelve Florida commits ranked in final Rivals 250

    18 Jan 2012 | 9:37 pm
    If improved safety is the goal of red-light cameras, then it is a mission largely unaccomplished for the first crop of area suburbs that raced to install the devices after they became legal in 2006, according to state data. Accidents rose -- in some...

  • Gators’ recruiting class drops to 18 after Visesio Salt’s de-commitment

    10 Jan 2012 | 4:37 pm
    If improved safety is the goal of red-light cameras, then it is a mission largely unaccomplished for the first crop of area suburbs that raced to install the devices after they became legal in 2006, according to state data. Accidents rose -- in some...

  • Commitment from DE Jonathan Bullard brings UF’s class to 19

    7 Jan 2012 | 9:38 pm
    If improved safety is the goal of red-light cameras, then it is a mission largely unaccomplished for the first crop of area suburbs that raced to install the devices after they became legal in 2006, according to state data. Accidents rose -- in some...

  • JuCo DT Damien Jacobs becomes first signee in UF recruiting class

    21 Dec 2011 | 9:37 pm
    If improved safety is the goal of red-light cameras, then it is a mission largely unaccomplished for the first crop of area suburbs that raced to install the devices after they became legal in 2006, according to state data. Accidents rose -- in some...

  • JuCo DT Visesio Salt becomes 17th UF commitment

    18 Dec 2011 | 4:37 pm
    If improved safety is the goal of red-light cameras, then it is a mission largely unaccomplished for the first crop of area suburbs that raced to install the devices after they became legal in 2006, according to state data. Accidents rose -- in some...
 
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    Hyde Park

  • Akira to open flagship store in Hyde Park

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:38 am
    Clothing retailer Akira plans to move into the vacant Borders book store in Hyde Park. The Chicago-based firm, which sells apparel and shoes aimed at young women, will occupy 8,000 square feet on the first floor, according to the University of Chicago,...

  • Gingrich's shady Alinsky campaign

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:32 pm
    Clothing retailer Akira plans to move into the vacant Borders book store in Hyde Park. The Chicago-based firm, which sells apparel and shoes aimed at young women, will occupy 8,000 square feet on the first floor, according to the University of Chicago,...

  • Trice: Timuel Black Jr.'s memorabilia is rare glimpse into black Chicago

    16 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    In the 1960s, Chicago historian and educator Timuel Black Jr. had a lady friend with a penchant for neatness who gently suggested he throw out some of the bags of memorabilia crowding his Hyde Park apartment. Against his better judgment, he impulsively...

  • Preckwinkle won't back down on illegal immigrant custody cases

    13 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Thursday refused to consider cooperating with federal requests to hold suspected illegal immigrants in the County Jail, calling instead for a task force to look at how to improve the way bail is set in all...

  • Sharing the street with pit bulls

    9 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A week after two dogs mauled a jogger on the lakefront, about 20 pit bulls and their owners walked along Drexel Boulevard in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. Some suffered from minor issues. Izzy, a 2-year-old pit bull, gets a little too excited when...
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    Irving Park

  • Three injured in single-car rollover

    28 Jan 2012 | 2:11 am
    Three people were injured after their car rolled over on the ramp from the Kennedy Expressway to Irving Park Road, authorities said. The accident happened about 2 a.m. and their car was the only one involved, police said. Chicago Fire Department...

  • Voice of the People, Jan. 28

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Facing hunger This is in response to "Who's getting food? Fraud is a risk to federal safety-net programs" (Editorial, Jan. 23). Rather than editorializing about minuscule amounts of fraud and abuse affecting the food stamp program, the Tribune should...

  • Spider Saloff spins a fine web at Katerina's

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:07 am
    Chicagoan Spider Saloff has sung on practically every musical stage this city has to offer during the past couple of decades, but she appears to have found a particularly welcoming one at Katerina's, on West Irving Park Road. The eclectic room –...

  • Disappearing act

    19 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Halfway through the soothing sways of "Edelweiss" at the Chicago Brauhaus, a gentleman dropped a tent card between the knackwurst and Wiener schnitzel on our table. The man placed cards on every table without a word, not wanting to intrude. His nametag...

  • State police: Trooper almost struck by wrong-way driver

    16 Jan 2012 | 3:11 am
    For the second time in a month, Illinois State Police stopped a suspected drunk driver speeding the wrong way on the Kennedy Expressway. Luckily for the other early-morning motorists, the driver stopped at about 1:45 a.m. today only drove about one mile-...
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    Itasca

  • Plea deal in fatal truck-train crash

    19 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A Carol Stream man whose girlfriend died after his pickup truck collided with a freight train locomotive at a crossing in Itasca last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated driving under the influence. In a plea deal with DuPage County prosecutors,...

  • Relay For Life of Evanston Receives American Cancer Society Relay All Star Award

    7 Dec 2011 | 4:34 pm
    A Carol Stream man whose girlfriend died after his pickup truck collided with a freight train locomotive at a crossing in Itasca last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated driving under the influence. In a plea deal with DuPage County prosecutors,...

  • Relay For Life of Elmhurst College Receives American Cancer Society Relay All Star Award

    5 Dec 2011 | 4:35 pm
    A Carol Stream man whose girlfriend died after his pickup truck collided with a freight train locomotive at a crossing in Itasca last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated driving under the influence. In a plea deal with DuPage County prosecutors,...

  • New Trail Open at Songbird Slough Forest Preserve

    8 Nov 2011 | 4:34 pm
    A Carol Stream man whose girlfriend died after his pickup truck collided with a freight train locomotive at a crossing in Itasca last year pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated driving under the influence. In a plea deal with DuPage County prosecutors,...

  • Planning for Barrington underpass at railroad begins

    9 Aug 2011 | 4:34 pm
    This time, Steve Bartman comes to the rescue. For the first half-hour of Theatre Seven's "We Live Here," an original, ensemble-driven, multiauthor homage to the quintessence of the city of Chicago, the show flails around. The early pieces feel...
 
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    Johnsburg

  • Murder defendant's longtime friend testifies

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A man who said he has been friends with murder defendant Mario Casciaro since the eighth grade testified Friday in McHenry County Circuit Court that his longtime pal knew what happened to the body of a teen who disappeared nine years ago. Alan Lippert,...

  • Witness says murder defendant told him, ‘Things got out of hand’

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    A man who said he has been friends with murder defendant Mario Casciaro since the eighth grade testified Friday in McHenry County Circuit Court that his longtime pal knew what happened to the body of a teen who disappeared nine years ago. Alan Lippert,...

  • Witness in Johnsburg murder case testifies about fight over drug money

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A key prosecution witness testified Thursday in McHenry County Circuit Court about a fight over drug money that authorities say set the stage for murder — in a case where the body has never been found. Shane Lamb is at the center of the trial of...

  • Witness in murder trial details fight that preceded teen's disappearance

    26 Jan 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Shane Lamb this morning testified in McHenry County Circuit Court to details of a five-minute physical altercation that prosecutors say set the stage for murder – in a case where the body has never been found. Lamb is at the center of the trial...

  • McHenry County murder trial gets under way

    24 Jan 2012 | 6:52 pm
    The man who authorities say delivered the fatal blow to teenage murder victim Brian Carrick could take the witness stand in McHenry County as early Wednesday, but it won't be in his own defense. Though prosecutors say it was convicted felon Shane Lamb...
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    Joliet

  • Today's top shows: Glen Campbell, Kathleen Edwards

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:52 am
    Kathleen Edwards: The Canadian singer-songwriter is showcasing her first album in four years, “Voyageur” (Zoe Records), coproduced by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. It traces the arch of a disintegrating love affair with a mix of melancholy...

  • Unemployment up in 5 Ill. metro areas, down in 5

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:55 am
    Unemployment dropped in five of Illinois' 12 metro areas and increased in five others during December when compared to a year earlier. The Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday in its monthly report on metro unemployment that one of...

  • Kirk faces a potentially long recovery from stroke

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    First-term Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk faces a potentially long road back from a weekend stroke that his neurosurgeon said could leave the lawmaker with lasting physical damage but also a full mental recovery. The 52-year-old North Shore politician...

  • Plainfield's Melissa McCarthy earns Oscar nomination for 'Bridesmaids'

    24 Jan 2012 | 8:18 am
    Plainfield native Melissa McCarthy has picked up a best supporting actress Oscar nomination for her performance in the R-rated comedy"Bridesmaids." It's been quite the year for McCarthy, who saw her fame rise with the release of “Bridesmaids”...

  • Coal plants dominate list of Chicago's biggest polluters

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Fed by a steady stream of coal barges, the aging power plants that loom over Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods are by far the city's largest industrial sources of climate change pollution. No other polluter comes close to the 4.2...
 
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    Justice

  • Ill. offering grants for law enforcement vehicles

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:15 pm
    An Illinois state agency is offering more than $460,000 in grants to law enforcement agencies that need new vehicles. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority is requesting proposals from law enforcement agencies. The authority says the...

  • Weeks in review

    6 Jan 2012 | 4:32 am
    An Illinois state agency is offering more than $460,000 in grants to law enforcement agencies that need new vehicles. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority is requesting proposals from law enforcement agencies. The authority says the...

  • Illinois’ juvenile justice system is failing, state report says

    13 Dec 2011 | 4:35 pm
    An Illinois state agency is offering more than $460,000 in grants to law enforcement agencies that need new vehicles. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority is requesting proposals from law enforcement agencies. The authority says the...

  • Gov. Quinn signs crime legislation in Elgin

    18 Aug 2011 | 4:34 pm
    An Illinois state agency is offering more than $460,000 in grants to law enforcement agencies that need new vehicles. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority is requesting proposals from law enforcement agencies. The authority says the...

  • PR executive sets off firestorm with proposal to discredit Madison County court system

    28 May 2011 | 12:00 am
    An Illinois state agency is offering more than $460,000 in grants to law enforcement agencies that need new vehicles. The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority is requesting proposals from law enforcement agencies. The authority says the...
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    Kane County

  • Man already serving 65 years gets life in prison in '07 Aurora slaying

    11 Jan 2012 | 10:30 am
    An Aurora man was sentenced Wednesday to natural life in prison for the 2007 slaying of a Chicago man in a gang-related shooting. Lorenzo I. Alvarez, 24, who was already serving a 65-year prison term for another gang murder, was sentenced for the March...

  • Kane County courthouse beefs up security

    26 Dec 2011 | 4:34 pm
    An Aurora man was sentenced Wednesday to natural life in prison for the 2007 slaying of a Chicago man in a gang-related shooting. Lorenzo I. Alvarez, 24, who was already serving a 65-year prison term for another gang murder, was sentenced for the March...

  • Woman pleads guilty to DUI in fatal Kane County accident

    9 Dec 2011 | 10:08 am
    An Aurora woman who was reaching for her sunglasses when she set off a chain reaction accident that killed a St. Charles motorcycling couple pleaded guilty today to aggravated DUI. Alia Bernard, 27, admitted to having marijuana in her system on May 29,...

  • Food pantry gives those in need a choice

    6 Dec 2011 | 4:34 am
    An Aurora woman who was reaching for her sunglasses when she set off a chain reaction accident that killed a St. Charles motorcycling couple pleaded guilty today to aggravated DUI. Alia Bernard, 27, admitted to having marijuana in her system on May 29,...

  • 2011 Chicago blizzard spurs preparations for another harsh winter

    26 Oct 2011 | 4:34 pm
    An Aurora woman who was reaching for her sunglasses when she set off a chain reaction accident that killed a St. Charles motorcycling couple pleaded guilty today to aggravated DUI. Alia Bernard, 27, admitted to having marijuana in her system on May 29,...
 
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    Lake Forest

  • A long winter's nap

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Hibernating critters of northeastern Illinois Some animals hibernate — go into a deep sleep and lose body fat — in winter. Others such as raccoons, skunks, squirrels and beavers remain active or semiactive during the cold months. It all...

  • Lake County sting found just a few selling alcohol to minors

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Hibernating critters of northeastern Illinois Some animals hibernate — go into a deep sleep and lose body fat — in winter. Others such as raccoons, skunks, squirrels and beavers remain active or semiactive during the cold months. It all...

  • Illinois' term paper honor roll

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Just 28 papers written by Illinois high school students have been published in The Concord Review since its inaugural issue in 1988. STUDENT/TOPIC/HOMETOWN/ISSUE Patricia Perozo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Chicago, winter 2011 David Tong, Macartney...

  • Top 10 things to do this weekend

    19 Jan 2012 | 4:34 am
    Just 28 papers written by Illinois high school students have been published in The Concord Review since its inaugural issue in 1988. STUDENT/TOPIC/HOMETOWN/ISSUE Patricia Perozo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Chicago, winter 2011 David Tong, Macartney...

  • Chicago Fed's Evans: Need to see better housing market

    11 Jan 2012 | 9:58 am
    The president of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank said on Wednesday that a more vibrant housing market will be necessary to boost home prices and provide a lift to the overall economy. Answering questions after addressing a Rotary Club meeting in Lake...
 
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    Libertyville

  • Two girls, deputy injured when school bus, squad car crash in Lake County

    26 Jan 2012 | 6:44 pm
    An 11-year-old girl bumped her head and 12-year-old girl suffered a cut above her eye when a sheriff’s squad car collided with a school bus with 42 kids aboard near Round Lake this afternoon. The deputy suffered cuts and a broken hand.   The...

  • Sandburg to host debate invitational Saturday

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    An 11-year-old girl bumped her head and 12-year-old girl suffered a cut above her eye when a sheriff’s squad car collided with a school bus with 42 kids aboard near Round Lake this afternoon. The deputy suffered cuts and a broken hand.   The...

  • Barbara McClurg Potter, 1925-2012

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Barbara McClurg Potter carried on her family's long tradition of civic involvement with a strong devotion to Chicago and its institutions. Her family's roots in the city stretched back to its beginnings. She was the great-grandniece of Chicago's first...

  • Woman dies from crash injuries days after wedding

    20 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Barbara McClurg Potter carried on her family's long tradition of civic involvement with a strong devotion to Chicago and its institutions. Her family's roots in the city stretched back to its beginnings. She was the great-grandniece of Chicago's first...

  • The Present Moment To Close at End of January

    19 Jan 2012 | 4:36 pm
    Barbara McClurg Potter carried on her family's long tradition of civic involvement with a strong devotion to Chicago and its institutions. Her family's roots in the city stretched back to its beginnings. She was the great-grandniece of Chicago's first...
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    Little Village

  • Shootings wound 10-year-old girl, 11 others, across city

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:58 am
    At least 12 people were wounded by gunfire on the city’s South and West sides since about 8 p.m. Friday night, according to Chicago police. A 10-year-old girl was shot in the leg and suffered a graze wound after a bullet went through her window...

  • Out of Iraq, long haul finished for soldiers from Illinois unit

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    In the early morning of Dec. 18, Capt. Michael Barton and his Illinois soldiers crossed the desert of southern Iraq into Kuwait, cramped inside armored vehicles, as they had done many times during the war. On this day, cheers and screams erupted from the...

  • Man, 19, charged in fatal stabbing of graffiti writer

    23 Jan 2012 | 11:51 pm
    A 19-year-old Little Village man was charged with the fatal stabbing of a graffiti writer at a Logan Square intersection over the weekend, Chicago police said this morning. Kristopher Klimala, of the 2000 block of South Western Avenue, was charged with...

  • Demonstrators protest reduced library hours

    23 Jan 2012 | 2:01 pm
    Drivers honked horns and whistled in support as about 50 people huddled, waving signs, in front of the Bucktown-Wicker Park Library on a chilly Monday morning to protest reduced library hours at Chicago Public Libraries. Protesters held signs such as...

  • Coal plants dominate list of Chicago's biggest polluters

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Fed by a steady stream of coal barges, the aging power plants that loom over Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods are by far the city's largest industrial sources of climate change pollution. No other polluter comes close to the 4.2...
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    Lockport

  • Prisoner who had hid in portable toilet found dead in cell

    12 Jan 2012 | 1:36 pm
    A prisoner who escaped from a moving van last month, only to be caught when dogs picked up his scent as he hid in a portable toilet, was found dead in his cell this week in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. An autopsy today was unable to determine...

  • Joliet man charged in fatal Lockport shooting

    23 Nov 2011 | 8:22 pm
    A Joliet man who was wounded in a shooting in July was charged Wednesday with fatally shooting a man in Lockport last month, authorities said.   Orsbey T. Larkin, 23, is accused of shooting Corey Kelly, 29, on Oct. 8, according to the Will County Sheriff'...

  • Burned out holiday lights can be recycled in Will Co.

    23 Nov 2011 | 4:34 pm
    A prisoner who escaped from a moving van last month, only to be caught when dogs picked up his scent as he hid in a portable toilet, was found dead in his cell this week in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. An autopsy today was unable to determine...

  • Wrestling season preview | Schaumburg's Marchok locked in on success

    18 Nov 2011 | 6:27 pm
    No one will accuse Josh Marchok of not putting forth effort. Coming off of a junior season during which he won the Class 3A 215-pound state title with a 38-0 record — including 34 pins — the Schaumburg wrestler was prepared to do his usual...

  • Joliet to contribute funds for purchase of emergency boat

    15 Nov 2011 | 4:34 pm
    No one will accuse Josh Marchok of not putting forth effort. Coming off of a junior season during which he won the Class 3A 215-pound state title with a 38-0 record — including 34 pins — the Schaumburg wrestler was prepared to do his usual...
 
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    McHenry

  • Murder defendant's longtime friend testifies

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A man who said he has been friends with murder defendant Mario Casciaro since the eighth grade testified Friday in McHenry County Circuit Court that his longtime pal knew what happened to the body of a teen who disappeared nine years ago. Alan Lippert,...

  • Judge orders McHenry County to pay legal bill in failed Bianchi prosecution

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    A man who said he has been friends with murder defendant Mario Casciaro since the eighth grade testified Friday in McHenry County Circuit Court that his longtime pal knew what happened to the body of a teen who disappeared nine years ago. Alan Lippert,...

  • Witness says murder defendant told him, ‘Things got out of hand’

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    A man who said he has been friends with murder defendant Mario Casciaro since the eighth grade testified Friday in McHenry County Circuit Court that his longtime pal knew what happened to the body of a teen who disappeared nine years ago. Alan Lippert,...

  • New county task force focuses on budget process

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:34 am
    A man who said he has been friends with murder defendant Mario Casciaro since the eighth grade testified Friday in McHenry County Circuit Court that his longtime pal knew what happened to the body of a teen who disappeared nine years ago. Alan Lippert,...

  • Judge orders McHenry County to pay $290,000 in legal fees for Bianchi case

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A judge on Thursday ordered McHenry County to pay about $290,000 in legal fees for the failed prosecution of State's Attorney Louis Bianchi — though the county is still fighting the bills. Circuit Court Judge Gordon Graham ordered the payments to...
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    McHenry County

  • Protection of gray wolves varies in Illinois

    23 Jan 2012 | 10:10 pm
    State and federal officials say the level of protection for gray wolves in Illinois will depend on where they might roam. Wolves north of Interstate 80 would be listed as threatened under state law, while any south of the interstate would remain on...

  • Competing McHenry County hospital plans revived, again

    17 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    State and federal officials say the level of protection for gray wolves in Illinois will depend on where they might roam. Wolves north of Interstate 80 would be listed as threatened under state law, while any south of the interstate would remain on...

  • 10 nonprofits submit requests for hotel tax revenues

    12 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    State and federal officials say the level of protection for gray wolves in Illinois will depend on where they might roam. Wolves north of Interstate 80 would be listed as threatened under state law, while any south of the interstate would remain on...

  • McHenry County sheriff’s officer put on leave

    7 Jan 2012 | 9:35 pm
    State and federal officials say the level of protection for gray wolves in Illinois will depend on where they might roam. Wolves north of Interstate 80 would be listed as threatened under state law, while any south of the interstate would remain on...

  • McHenry County sheriff's officer put on leave

    7 Jan 2012 | 4:47 pm
    The McHenry County sheriff tonight announced that one of his officers has been placed on administrative leave due to a "domestic issue." The unidentified officer was put on leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation by the Illinois State...
 
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    Mokena

  • Man sentenced for luring girl to motel by posing as boy on teen website

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:52 pm
    A 33-year-old Florida man who persuaded a 13-year-old Will County girl to meet him for sex in a Mokena motel after posing as a 13-year-old boy in a teen-oriented Internet chat room was sentenced today to 20 years in prison. The sentence by Will County...

  • Probation for Tinley Park man who pleaded guilty to sex with 13-year-old

    11 Jan 2012 | 4:36 pm
    A 33-year-old Florida man who persuaded a 13-year-old Will County girl to meet him for sex in a Mokena motel after posing as a 13-year-old boy in a teen-oriented Internet chat room was sentenced today to 20 years in prison. The sentence by Will County...

  • Mayor says send your resume if interested in filling McCarthy seat

    3 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    A 33-year-old Florida man who persuaded a 13-year-old Will County girl to meet him for sex in a Mokena motel after posing as a 13-year-old boy in a teen-oriented Internet chat room was sentenced today to 20 years in prison. The sentence by Will County...

  • Seat adjustment off track

    20 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
    Q: The motor that operates the driver's seat on my 1999 Lincoln Continental does not work. My mechanic told me that the motor is inoperable and must be replaced. I called a dealer and was told that the motor was never available separately as a replacement...

  • Chicago Hts. man killed in Iroquois County crash

    12 Dec 2011 | 8:19 am
    A Chicago Heights man was killed over the weekend after his car struck a tractor-trailer in Iroquois County, police said today. The accident happened near Clifton at the intersection of U.S. Route 45/52 and 2900 North Road at about 2:15 p.m. Saturday,...
 
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    Morgan Park

  • Black teen says 3 boys committed racist attack

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Joshua Merritt said he had no reason to be suspicious when one of his friends texted him, asking him to hang out with two other teenagers they both knew. But after Merritt, 17, arrived at the home of one of the boys in Chicago's East Beverly neighborhood...

  • Corrections and clarifications for Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012

    7 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    •A Page 1 story Friday about the rise in reported cases of whooping cough incorrectly characterized the ages of people who commonly came down with the disease before vaccines were introduced. Hundreds of thousands of people, many of them children,...

  • New report chronicles misconduct within CPS

    5 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Chicago Public Schools employees repeatedly took advantage of lax oversight or exploited the system to benefit themselves financially during the year leading to an overhaul of CPS leadership, says the annual report released Wednesday by the district's...

  • Morgan Park shooting leaves teen dead

    4 Dec 2011 | 2:37 pm
    A 17-year-old male was pronounced death after being shot this morning in the Morgan Park neighborhood, officials said. The shooting happened at about 9:51 a.m. on the 1100 block of West 112th Place, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer...

  • Man shot to death on Far South Side

    2 Dec 2011 | 4:35 am
    A man died after being shot several times on the street in the Morgan Park neighborhood this evening, police said. The man, 21, was in the 11100 block of South Throop Street about 6:50 p.m. when he was shot in the head, chest and groin, said Chicago...
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    Naperville

  • Friday's Scores

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm
    Alden-Hebron 48, Mooseheart 46 Althoff Catholic 48, Marion 34 Alton Marquette 62, East Alton-Wood River 28 Andrew 66, Lincoln Way West 30 Anna-Jonesboro 50, DuQuoin 47, OT Aquin 65, Durand 48 Armstrong 45, Chrisman 31 Arthur-Okaw Christian...

  • 9 pupils, driver taken to hospitals after Kane County school bus crash

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:15 am
    A school bus rolled on its side and slid into a cornfield, sending 9 special-needs pupils and the driver to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries this morning in Kane County near Sugar Grove, authorities said. The students were being taken...

  • Unemployment up in 5 Ill. metro areas, down in 5

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:55 am
    Unemployment dropped in five of Illinois' 12 metro areas and increased in five others during December when compared to a year earlier. The Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday in its monthly report on metro unemployment that one of...

  • UPDATE: Court rejects effort to put smart meters on ballot

    24 Jan 2012 | 4:36 pm
    Unemployment dropped in five of Illinois' 12 metro areas and increased in five others during December when compared to a year earlier. The Illinois Department of Employment Security said Thursday in its monthly report on metro unemployment that one of...

  • Court says no to effort to put smart meters on ballot in Naperville

    24 Jan 2012 | 1:48 pm
    A DuPage County judge rejected efforts by opponents of Naperville’s new smart meter system to ask voters whether the technology should be used. Read more in TribLocal ...
 
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    Near North Side

  • As some schools plunge into technology, poor schools are left behind

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    On a recent Friday morning, 15-year-old Jerod Franklin stared at his hands as he labored to type up memories of the first time he grilled steak. Next to him, classmate Brittany Levy tackled a piece about a trip to the hospital. The Bronzeville Scholastic...

  • Man, 91, struck with baseball bat on Near North Side.

    13 Jan 2012 | 3:48 pm

  • Chase Bank in Gold Coast robbed

    9 Jan 2012 | 12:55 pm
    A bank in the Gold Coast neighborhood was robbed this afternoon. At 1:36 p.m. a man wearing a black stocking cap handed a teller a threatening note at a Chase Bank branch in the 1200 block of North State Parkway on the Near North Side, according to...

  • Serviceman thwarts robbery on CTA

    8 Jan 2012 | 11:43 am
    An Illinois Army National Guardsman nabbed three robbers at a CTA Red Line station on the Near North Side Saturday evening after the suspects snatched someone else's iPhone, according to Chicago police. A police officer who knew of the incident did not...

  • CHA grinds toward finish line of relocation plan

    8 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    On a frigid day in December 2010, residents, onlookers, journalists and some members of the public gathered at 1230 N. Burling St. to watch as the last family moved out of the last high-rise in the notorious Cabrini-Green public housing complex. Three...
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    Near South Side

  • South Side businesses must lead changes to attract more tourism and investment dollars

    8 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The U.S. is the No. 2 tourist destination worldwide, and Chicago ranks in the Top 10 for attracting global travelers with plenty of money to spend. But where I live and work, this kind of consumer is a far and few in between. I set up my business in a...

  • Grand finale for a house of ill repute

    23 Oct 2011 | 12:00 am
    Minna Everleigh took the news philosophically when told the city was shuttering her "resort," as establishments of the kind she and her sister Ada ran were called in Chicago a century ago. "If the ship sinks, we're going down with a cheer and a good...

  • Mediums on the loose in Chicago, scaring few

    10 Oct 2011 | 11:23 am
    In the Chicago of the 1870s, the fashionable drawing rooms of Prairie Avenue were frequently host to spiritualists, mediums and charlatans, often folks playing all three of those roles at once. With lowered gas lights and a bit of hocus-pocus and table...

  • The legend of Mrs. O'Leary

    9 Oct 2011 | 12:00 am
    How survivors of the Chicago Fire sought scapegoats 140 years ago Even as the embers of the Chicago Fire cooled, the saga of Mrs. O'Leary began. For 140 years, she has been alternately accused and exonerated of setting off the inferno that consumed...

  • Duplex model debuts at Lake Park Crescent

    23 Sep 2011 | 12:00 am
    A new model has been introduced at Lake Park Crescent, a lakefront residential development in the Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood on the Near South Side. The three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath CityHome duplex model features an open floor plan, a chef's kitchen...
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    Norridge

  • Bingo Night

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:14 pm
    A SWEETHEART OF A DEAL!! Bingo Night Saturday, February 11, 2012. Doors open at 5:00 PM Games start at 6:00 PM 1st Game Payout - $150.00 12 Game Payout - $75.00 2 Games - Coverall - $500.00 Each Game We have food at our Concession Stand, Vince's...

  • Medical examiner: Bones in Norridge, on Near North Side weren't human

    13 Oct 2011 | 1:51 pm
    Bones found in northwest surburban Norridge and on the Near North Side on Wednesday were not human, the Cook County medical examiner's office determined following examinations today.Contractors in Norridge discovered the remains while digging in an...

  • Cook County issues West Nile Virus advisory

    8 Jul 2011 | 4:35 pm
    Bones found in northwest surburban Norridge and on the Near North Side on Wednesday were not human, the Cook County medical examiner's office determined following examinations today.Contractors in Norridge discovered the remains while digging in an...

  • Evanston Salvation Army Officers Announce Their Retirement

    12 May 2011 | 4:34 pm
    Bones found in northwest surburban Norridge and on the Near North Side on Wednesday were not human, the Cook County medical examiner's office determined following examinations today.Contractors in Norridge discovered the remains while digging in an...

  • Boy Dies After Fall From Chicago Roller Coaster

    3 Apr 2011 | 12:00 am
    Authorities say a 3-year-old boy died after falling from a children's roller coaster at an indoor amusement park in suburban Chicago. The Cook County medical examiner identified the boy Sunday as Jayson Dansby of Dolton. The fall happened Saturday at...
 
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    North Chicago

  • Abbott to cut 700 jobs even as profit rises

    26 Jan 2012 | 6:57 pm
    Abbott Laboratories announced Wednesday that it is cutting 700 jobs in the United States and Puerto Rico as part of a restructuring effort in two of its manufacturing operations. The North Chicago-based health care company said it plans to cut about...

  • Abbott cutting 700 jobs, even as profits rise

    25 Jan 2012 | 6:57 pm
    Abbott Laboratories announced Wednesday that it is cutting 700 jobs in the United States and Puerto Rico as part of a restructuring effort in two of its manufacturing operations. The North Chicago-based health care company said it plans to cut about...

  • Abbott to cut 700 jobs in U.S., Puerto Rico

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Abbott Laboratories announced Wednesday that it is cutting 700 jobs in the United States and Puerto Rico as part of a restructuring effort in two of its manufacturing operations. The North Chicago-based health care company said it plans to cut about...

  • Lake County officials unveil new approach on improving health for low income families

    23 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Abbott Laboratories announced Wednesday that it is cutting 700 jobs in the United States and Puerto Rico as part of a restructuring effort in two of its manufacturing operations. The North Chicago-based health care company said it plans to cut about...

  • North Chicago puts police chief on leave

    4 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    North Chicago's police chief has been put on paid leave while an independent investigator looks into six cases of alleged police brutality, the mayor announced Tuesday. Mayor Leon Rockingham Jr. said he removed Chief Mike Newsome to restore public...
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    Norwood Park

  • 3 charged in Norwood Park West home invasion

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:10 pm
    Charges have been filed against three men who police say kicked their way into a Northwest Side home earlier this week while the couple living there was at home, police said this morning. Chicago police officers who responded to a burglary-in-progress...

  • Three suspects were arrested following a home invasion in the Norwood Park neighborhood.

    23 Jan 2012 | 9:30 pm

  • 3 held in Norwood Park West home invasion

    23 Jan 2012 | 9:28 pm
    Three suspects are in custody for a home invasion Monday night in the Norwood Park West neighborhood on the Northwest Side. No one was hurt during the incident, which happened about 7:30 p.m. in the 5800 block of North Oconto Avenue, according to...

  • Old Norwood Park book club

    17 Jan 2012 | 10:27 am
    We all live in a unique neighborhood called Old Norwood Park on the city's far Northwest Side. All 11 members live within walking distance of one another. We have been meeting at each other's homes almost every month for five years. Our meetings begin...

  • Firefighters battle weekend blazes

    16 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    We all live in a unique neighborhood called Old Norwood Park on the city's far Northwest Side. All 11 members live within walking distance of one another. We have been meeting at each other's homes almost every month for five years. Our meetings begin...
 
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    Oswego

  • Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan received more than $1.5 million in campaign contributions

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Political bank accounts controlled by Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan received more than $1.5 million in campaign contributions in the final three months of 2011, records filed with state elections officials showed Tuesday. The donations gave...

  • Weather, road conditions contributed to fatal crash, police say

    13 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Political bank accounts controlled by Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan received more than $1.5 million in campaign contributions in the final three months of 2011, records filed with state elections officials showed Tuesday. The donations gave...

  • Quinn signs public pension overhaul

    5 Jan 2012 | 8:21 am
    SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law a major crackdown on lucrative public pension abuses that saw top union officials land hefty retirement packages, double dip and substitute teach for one day but win benefits for life. "The pension...

  • Quinn signs landmark pension abuse reforms into law

    4 Jan 2012 | 7:19 pm
    — Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday signed into law a major crackdown on lucrative public pension abuses that saw top union officials land hefty retirement packages, double dip and substitute teach for one day but win benefits for life. "The pension...

  • Top stories of the year on TribLocal.com

    4 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Political bank accounts controlled by Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan received more than $1.5 million in campaign contributions in the final three months of 2011, records filed with state elections officials showed Tuesday. The donations gave...
 
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    Pilsen

  • The artiste

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Davide Nanni winced. The restaurant lights were bright, brighter than he liked, and Nanni hates bright lights — he can't stand direct, revealing illumination. Just after he moved to Chicago in 1996 from his native Italy, a light bulb in his Pilsen...

  • At Simone's, pictured above, in Pilsen , tables were built from old pinball machines. The bar back swoops and curls away from the wall like a wave.

    25 Jan 2012 | 3:11 pm

  • Stephen Hrajnoha, 1917-2011

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Stephen Hrajnoha worked in the tool and die industry, setting up production lines for everything from aircraft engines to locomotive parts. His West Side manufacturing company also had great success with the aluminum Christmas tree — a fad that...

  • Coal plants dominate list of Chicago's biggest polluters

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Fed by a steady stream of coal barges, the aging power plants that loom over Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods are by far the city's largest industrial sources of climate change pollution. No other polluter comes close to the 4.2...

  • Occupy Chicago gets winter home

    19 Jan 2012 | 5:23 pm
    Occupy Chicago has secured a new home base to coordinate its winter activities. The group is leasing two units on the fifth and seventh floors of Riverfront Work Lofts at 500 W. Cermak Road, the former location of the Thompson & Taylor Spice Co. The...
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    Pullman

  • Illinois' term paper honor roll

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Just 28 papers written by Illinois high school students have been published in The Concord Review since its inaugural issue in 1988. STUDENT/TOPIC/HOMETOWN/ISSUE Patricia Perozo, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Chicago, winter 2011 David Tong, Macartney...

  • Wal-Mart opening Chatham supercenter today

    25 Jan 2012 | 9:34 am
    Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to open its long-anticipated Supercenter in Chatham on Wednesday, the culmination of a seven-year battle to establish a store on the former steel company site. The 157,000-square-foot store is the Bentonville, Ark.-based...

  • Branch libraries to reopen Monday afternoons

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Chicago libraries will reopen most Monday afternoons under a plan Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Saturday after weeks of contentious negotiations with organized labor that heightened tensions with public employees. Starting Feb. 6, the city's 76 branch...

  • Chicago program turns vacant condo buildings into affordable rentals

    6 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    As the housing market enters a new year of watching and waiting for stability to return, there is also some action afoot: Efforts are expected to take shape to tackle the vast swath of empty homes and fill them with residents — and in many cases,...

  • Pizza delivery woman shot on Far South Side

    23 Nov 2011 | 7:05 pm
    A pizza delivery woman was shot and robbed while she was delivering an order tonight in the city's West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, authorities said. The woman, described as in her mid-50s, was delivering a pizza when at least gunman shot...
 
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    Chicago Tribune: Romeoville

  • Coal plants dominate list of Chicago's biggest polluters

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Fed by a steady stream of coal barges, the aging power plants that loom over Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods are by far the city's largest industrial sources of climate change pollution. No other polluter comes close to the 4.2...

  • Will County school districts cancel after-school activities due to snow

    20 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Fed by a steady stream of coal barges, the aging power plants that loom over Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods are by far the city's largest industrial sources of climate change pollution. No other polluter comes close to the 4.2...

  • Residents raise more concerns about mining operation

    19 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Fed by a steady stream of coal barges, the aging power plants that loom over Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods are by far the city's largest industrial sources of climate change pollution. No other polluter comes close to the 4.2...

  • Mayor says village will not allow expansion of mining at quarry

    6 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Fed by a steady stream of coal barges, the aging power plants that loom over Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods are by far the city's largest industrial sources of climate change pollution. No other polluter comes close to the 4.2...

  • Romeoville quarry owes some $500,000 in back payments, officials say

    5 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Fed by a steady stream of coal barges, the aging power plants that loom over Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods are by far the city's largest industrial sources of climate change pollution. No other polluter comes close to the 4.2...
 
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    Roseland

  • Don't rush to pay off your mortgage

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    When it comes to home loans, we've become a nation of debt-a-phobes. Borrowers are choosing shorter-term loans when they can; of those who refinanced a 30-year fixed-rate loan in the third quarter of 2011, 40 percent chose a 15- or 20-year loan. But many...

  • Out of Iraq, long haul finished for soldiers from Illinois unit

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    In the early morning of Dec. 18, Capt. Michael Barton and his Illinois soldiers crossed the desert of southern Iraq into Kuwait, cramped inside armored vehicles, as they had done many times during the war. On this day, cheers and screams erupted from the...

  • Mom faced uphill battle even before blaze killed 2 of her children

    25 Jan 2012 | 8:31 pm
    Alicia Myles was already struggling before a deadly fire tore through her apartment on Chicago's Far South Side early Tuesday, killing her 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son, her family said. Myles, 25, was trying to raise a 6-year-old son and her...

  • 'My babies, my babies': 2 children die in S. Side apartment fire

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A tow truck driver from Manteno who was on Chicago's South Side to repossess a car early Tuesday didn't hesitate when he saw smoke and heard a mother scream that her babies were trapped in a burning apartment. David Johns Jr. said he went into the...

  • Fire rescue: 'We had 2 children trapped inside, we needed to get in there'

    24 Jan 2012 | 1:20 pm
    David Johns Jr. didn't hesitate when a mother screamed that her babies were trapped in a burning apartment. And that split-second decision will stay with him for the rest of his life. Johns said he kicked in doors, grabbed fire extinguishers, crawled...
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    Schiller Park

  • Twinkies maker Hostess files for bankruptcy

    11 Jan 2012 | 12:04 pm
    Twinkies maker Hostess Brands Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection. The company, based in Irving, Texas, said it was struggling with pension and benefits costs and the tough economy. It's not the first time the maker of Wonder Bread and Ding Dongs...

  • Twinkie, Wonder Bread maker Hostess files for bankruptcy

    11 Jan 2012 | 5:26 am
    Twinkies and Wonder Bread maker Hostess Brands Inc filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in less than three years, after failing to reach an agreement with workers on pension and health benefits. Hostess' declining financial performance,...

  • Man charged with Jefferson Park rock attack

    16 Oct 2011 | 3:56 pm
    A Schiller Park man has been charged with bashing another man on the head with a landscaping rock during a brawl that followed a car chase through the Northwest Side this month. The victim required five staples to close the wound after the alleged...

  • Suburban man ticketed after fatal NW side accident

    14 Oct 2011 | 5:35 am
    A Chicago man died after being hit by a car just after 8 p.m. Thursday on Chicago’s Northwest Side, police said. The man, identified as 47-year-old Andrzej Papiez of the 3500 block of North Osceola Avenue, was pronounced dead at Advocate Lutheran...

  • Man killed trying to remove ducklings from I-294

    31 May 2011 | 7:03 am
    A Naperville man attempting to help a family of ducklings safely cross Interstate Highway 294 was killed Monday when he was struck by a limousine, state police said. Edward Gardner was traveling north when he pulled over near Schiller Park about 9:30 a....
 
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    Skokie

  • Donald Lukens leaves the Cook County Circuit Court in Skokie on Aug. 31, 2011.

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:23 pm

  • Spertus Institute reinvents itself

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:54 pm
    When Hal Lewis became president of Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, in July 2009, the future of the place looked grim. Spertus owed $43.6 million of the $51.6 million it had borrowed to build its architecturally stunning site at 610 S.Michigan Ave.,...

  • SPOTLIGHT: Public defenders share marriage, job

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:10 am
    Defense attorneys Jim Mullenix and Julie Koehler make a pretty good team -- in and out of the courtroom. Professionally, they're 11-2. Of the 13 cases they've tried together for the Cook County public defender's office, seven were acquittals, three...

  • Charla Krupp, 1953-2012

    24 Jan 2012 | 7:37 pm
    Beauty books come and go, traded for younger models. But Charla Krupp's "How Not to Look Old" has remained a bible for women since its 2008 publication. The book spent 18 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, sold more than 300,000 copies and...

  • Cops: Man suspected in 2 Chicago homicides found dead in Evanston alley

    21 Jan 2012 | 1:14 pm
    Authorities are investigating the apparent suicide in Evanston of a 33-year-old man suspected in two Chicago slayings Friday night, one downtown and one in Rogers Park, a few blocks from where the suspect was found dead. The man, identified as Dante...
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    South Loop

  • Condo buildings lacking FHA certification add hurdle for buyers and sellers

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Buying a condominium is getting trickier for anyone who wants to put down only 3.5 percent and have the government insure their mortgage. The issue isn't just the borrower's financial wherewithal. It's the building's, and plenty of condos in Chicago...

  • Two Chicago banks robbed

    13 Jan 2012 | 1:39 pm
    Two branch banks, one in the South Loop and one in Logan Square, were robbed this morning, authorities said. Two men robbed a bank in the 3000 block of North Pulaski Road about 10:15 a.m. and fled on foot, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer...

  • Police dog back on duty after being attacked by pit bull

    11 Jan 2012 | 12:10 pm
    When Vvorra went on a casual afternoon training walk last week in the South Loop, her owner did not expect to end it in an emergency room. Vvorra, a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois canine partner of Chicago Police Officer Kevin Keel, was attacked by an...

  • Cops: Police dog bitten by pit bull, owner ticketed

    9 Jan 2012 | 7:33 pm
    The owner of a pit bull was ticketed Sunday after her dog bit a Chicago Police dog multiple times Friday afternoon in the South Loop, police said. A police officer was exercising his leashed canine partner "VVorra”  about 4:10 p.m. Friday in the...

  • Starting Sunday, Room 43 swings again!

    5 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Drive down East 43d Street on a Sunday night, and you'll be struck by the stillness outside, nary a soul in sight. Then pull up to Room 43 (at 1043 E. 43d St.), open the door and you'll think the party has been underway for hours, musicians playing...
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    South Shore

  • Man involved in killing of 10-year-old girl gets 14 years

    24 Jan 2012 | 2:44 pm
    A gang member who admitted to taking part in a hunt for rivals that ended with a 10-year-old girl fatally shot in 2008 was sentenced today to 14 years in prison. Joseph Chico, 27, was originally one of four people charged with first-degree murder in...

  • Maggie Brown celebrates 20 years of 'LEGACY'

    19 Jan 2012 | 9:57 am
    When the distinguished Chicago singer Maggie Brown drives her kids to school or picks them up, they usually switch on the car radio, at which point Brown winces at what she hears: song lyrics that would make a sailor blush. Quickly, Brown turns the dial....

  • 31-year-old man killed in South Shore

    15 Jan 2012 | 5:59 am
    A man was shot and killed Saturday in the South Shore neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, according to authorities. Jason Gatewood, 31, of the 10400 block of South Wentworth Avenue, was pronounced dead at 12:57 p.m. Saturday after being shot about 4:50...

  • Court filing describes slaying of rising fashion star

    11 Jan 2012 | 6:48 pm
    Dione Deshawn Moody, an up-and-coming wardrobe stylist, was carrying groceries to his apartment in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood last month when a 17-year-old boy allegedly approached and asked for change for a $10 bill, according to court...

  • Chicago woman one of two dead in Montana bus crash

    10 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    A 60-year-old Chicago woman on her way to visit family in Seattle was one of two people killed Sunday morning in a bus crash on an icy interstate highway in western Montana. Fatimah Amatullah, of the 7200 block of South South Shore Drive, was one of four...
 
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    Tinley Park

  • Institution closure calls for community support

    25 Jan 2012 | 10:50 am
    Access Living applauds Governor Quinn's January 19 decision to close the Jacksonville Developmental Center. For more than 20 years, people with disabilities and their transition from institutions and into their own community-supported homes has been a top...

  • Trial of Painted Pastures Animal Rescue owner set for March 7

    24 Jan 2012 | 4:36 pm
    Access Living applauds Governor Quinn's January 19 decision to close the Jacksonville Developmental Center. For more than 20 years, people with disabilities and their transition from institutions and into their own community-supported homes has been a top...

  • Quinn to close Tinley Park Mental Health Center in July

    20 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The Tinley Park Mental Health Center will close in July under a plan Gov. Pat Quinn announced Thursday, the first step in a years-long effort to move residents out of state-run institutions and into community-based settings. The governor also said that...

  • Quinn ‘rebalancing’ plan draws sharp rebuke

    17 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    The Tinley Park Mental Health Center will close in July under a plan Gov. Pat Quinn announced Thursday, the first step in a years-long effort to move residents out of state-run institutions and into community-based settings. The governor also said that...

  • Critics blast Quinn's 'rebalancing' plan for state facilities

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Gov. Pat Quinn's administration is close to picking which state facilities for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled will be shuttered, and a lawmaker involved in the private discussions says he thinks centers in Tinley Park and Jacksonville in...
 
 
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    Waukegan

  • Funeral is set for woman who held hunger strike in Lake County Jail

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Funeral arrangements have been set for Lyvita Gomes, a native of India who died this month after a 15-day hunger strike that started in Lake County Jail. Services for Gomes, 52, were delayed until relatives arrive from Britain this weekend, said...

  • Bomb threat closes CLC Waukegan campus

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:36 pm
    Funeral arrangements have been set for Lyvita Gomes, a native of India who died this month after a 15-day hunger strike that started in Lake County Jail. Services for Gomes, 52, were delayed until relatives arrive from Britain this weekend, said...

  • UPDATE: Bomb threat closes CLC campus

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Funeral arrangements have been set for Lyvita Gomes, a native of India who died this month after a 15-day hunger strike that started in Lake County Jail. Services for Gomes, 52, were delayed until relatives arrive from Britain this weekend, said...

  • Bomb threat temporarily closes CLC Waukegan campus

    26 Jan 2012 | 1:45 pm
    The College of Lake County reopened its Waukegan campus this afternoon after  evacuating  three buildings earlier because of bomb threat, according to the school's website. Read more at TribLocal. ...

  • Services set for Lake County Jail hunger-strike victim

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:21 am
    Funeral arrangements have been set for Lyvita Gomes, a Mumbai-area native who died in early January after going on a 15-day hunger strike in Lake County jail. The service for Gomes, 52, was delayed until relatives arrive from the United Kingdom this...
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    Wheaton

  • Nunu Sung being interviewed at the DuPage County Jail in Wheaton on Aug. 11, 2011.

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:31 pm

  • Illinois budget

    26 Jan 2012 | 10:17 am
    The lingering pain of this recession is real and affects every Illinois citizen, our state, and our elected officials. This is why the West Suburban Jobs Council, a coalition of over 30 member agencies with the mission to increase low income DuPage County...

  • Wheaton man faces child pornography charges

    25 Jan 2012 | 4:36 pm
    The lingering pain of this recession is real and affects every Illinois citizen, our state, and our elected officials. This is why the West Suburban Jobs Council, a coalition of over 30 member agencies with the mission to increase low income DuPage County...

  • UPDATE: Court rejects effort to put smart meters on ballot

    24 Jan 2012 | 4:36 pm
    The lingering pain of this recession is real and affects every Illinois citizen, our state, and our elected officials. This is why the West Suburban Jobs Council, a coalition of over 30 member agencies with the mission to increase low income DuPage County...

  • League hosts candidate forum for primary contests

    18 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    The lingering pain of this recession is real and affects every Illinois citizen, our state, and our elected officials. This is why the West Suburban Jobs Council, a coalition of over 30 member agencies with the mission to increase low income DuPage County...
 
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    Willowbrook

  • Rehabbed snowy owl is set free in DuPage County

    23 Jan 2012 | 12:57 pm
    Garnering the attention of a starlet stepping from a limo on Oscars night, a rare snowy owl rehabilitated after being struck by an SUV eight weeks ago was released into the wild today and floated northeast over the tree tops of a DuPage County Forest...

  • Injured snowy owl released after rehabilitation

    23 Jan 2012 | 11:10 am
    A snowy owl struck by a SUV in November has been released into a forest preserve in suburban Chicago. The Daily Herald reports (http://bit.ly/yO6STx) the bird was released Monday morning into Pratt's Wayne Woods Forest Preserve near Bartlett. The bird...

  • Top stories of the year on TribLocal

    5 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    A snowy owl struck by a SUV in November has been released into a forest preserve in suburban Chicago. The Daily Herald reports (http://bit.ly/yO6STx) the bird was released Monday morning into Pratt's Wayne Woods Forest Preserve near Bartlett. The bird...

  • Couple suspected in 'rash' of home invasions involving elderly who had furniture delivered

    9 Dec 2011 | 3:48 pm
    A man and his girlfriend have been charged in a suburban home invasions that was part of a rash of crimes targeting elderly homeowners who recently had furniture delivered to their homes, authorities said. Mark Stanko, 26, and Tracy Denell, 28, have...

  • Cops: Woman may have fallen asleep before I-55 crash

    20 Nov 2011 | 12:14 pm
    A 20-year-old woman and a baby were injured on Interstate 55 late Saturday night after their car went over the edge of the Route 83 bridge above the highway and landed on its roof in the southbound lanes below, police said. Both suffered serious...
 
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    Woodlawn (Chicago, Illinois)

  • Friday's Scores

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm
    Alden-Hebron 48, Mooseheart 46 Althoff Catholic 48, Marion 34 Alton Marquette 62, East Alton-Wood River 28 Andrew 66, Lincoln Way West 30 Anna-Jonesboro 50, DuQuoin 47, OT Aquin 65, Durand 48 Armstrong 45, Chrisman 31 Arthur-Okaw Christian...

  • 3 shot in West Woodlawn neighborhood

    7 Jan 2012 | 11:17 pm
    Three people were shot this afternoon in an attack in the West Woodlawn neighborhood, police said. The shooting took place about 3:20 p.m. in the 6600 block of South Langley Avenue, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala. One man, 22,...

  • Chicago program turns vacant condo buildings into affordable rentals

    6 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    As the housing market enters a new year of watching and waiting for stability to return, there is also some action afoot: Efforts are expected to take shape to tackle the vast swath of empty homes and fill them with residents — and in many cases,...

  • Questions raised about Leon Finney Jr.'s Woodlawn Organization

    6 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The Rev. Leon Finney Jr. built a name for himself in the 1960s by fighting slumlords and helping to save his Woodlawn community from being swallowed by the University of Chicago. The community group he came to lead, The Woodlawn Organization, became a...

  • Classical Corner

    5 Jan 2012 | 9:05 am
    Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra: Music director Alan Heatherington conducts serenades by Dvorak, Mozart and Brahms. 3 p.m. Sunday at North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie; $30-$70; 847-673-6300, arsviva.org Baroque Band: The...
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    Zion

  • Zion-Benton teachers head back to school after strike

    11 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Even as Zion-Benton Township High School reopens Wednesday after a four-day labor dispute, experts say the number of strikes may be declining because of the poor economy and a new state law that makes it tougher for teachers to call for walkouts. "That...

  • Zion-Benton teacher settlement elusive

    7 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Although no agreement had been made by Friday evening, dozens of striking teachers and staff in Zion-Benton Township High School District 126 say they are trying to remain optimistic. But the marathon negotiating sessions — talks Wednesday went...

  • Strike, talks continue at Zion-Benton High School District 126

    6 Jan 2012 | 4:46 pm
    Although no agreement had been made by Friday evening, dozens of  striking teachers and staff picketing at Zion-Benton High School District 126 schools for a second day are trying to remain optimistic. But the marathon negotiating sessions —...

  • Zion-Benton talks set to resume Friday as strike continues

    5 Jan 2012 | 5:09 pm
    Representatives of striking Zion-Benton High School District 126 teachers and staff are scheduled to resume contract talks with district officials at 9 a.m. Friday, a union official said this evening. Negotiations will resume at 9 a.m. Friday in the...

  • Domestic violence agencies get Verizon grants

    4 Jan 2012 | 4:34 pm
    Although no agreement had been made by Friday evening, dozens of  striking teachers and staff picketing at Zion-Benton High School District 126 schools for a second day are trying to remain optimistic. But the marathon negotiating sessions —...
 
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    Obituaries - chicagotribune.com

  • Bassist with Peter, Paul and Mary and John Denver Band

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:20 pm
    SAUGERTIES, N.Y. (AP) — Dick Kniss, a bassist who performed for five decades with the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and co-wrote the John Denver hit "Sunshine on My Shoulders," has died. He was 74.

  • Dr. Natalie Stephens, 1920-2012

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    OB-GYN worked to help victims of sexual assaultIn the 1960s and 1970s, when a victim of sexual assault came to the emergency room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Dr. Natalie Stephens often got the call.

  • "Epstein" from "Welcome Back Kotter," dies at 60

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:39 pm
    Former "Sweathog" passes away after apparent heart attackRobert Hegyes, the New Jersey-born actor who played Jewish Puerto-Rican wheeler-dealer Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein on the 1970s classic "Welcome Back Kotter," died after an apparent heart attack in his Metuchen, N.J., home Thursday morning. He was 60.

  • The Rev. J. Robert Sandman, 1927-2012

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    United Church of Christ minister, farm labor activistThe Rev. J. Robert Sandman, a longtime United Church of Christ minister who helped establish scores of churches throughout Illinois, dedicated his life to many social justice causes and with some of the most influential people in those movements.

  • Cheryl Blackwell Bryson, 1950-2012

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Labor lawyer and chairwoman of the DuSable Museum of African American HistoryCheryl Blackwell Bryson, a labor lawyer who made her mark as an innovator and mentor, brought fresh vigor to the DuSable Museum of African American History as the South Side institution's chairwoman since 2009.
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