Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis said Friday he is "extremely nervous" that a wave of police retirements next year -- after an arbitrator rules on the new police contract -- will stretch a burgeoning manpower shortage beyond levels he considers safe.
As the last of his severance pay dwindled away in March, Brad Cleghorn of northwest suburban Marengo cashed out his 401(k) plan in order to pay his mortgage and feed his family. Cleghorn is not alone. A Hewitt Associates study shows that 46 percent of workers with 401(k) plans who lost or switched jobs cashed the plans in, a trend that could lead to serious problems when younger generations of people working today reach retirement.
Police arrested two men and two women earlier this week who allegedly ran a lottery ticket scam that targeted elderly Hispanic victims.
Chicago Police will stick to their speed detector guns -- churning out tickets generated by LIDAR detectors purchased to slow neighborhood speeding -- despite widespread dismissals in Traffic Court, Supt. Jody Weis said Friday.
Up to 150,000 pets die in fires every year, succumbing mostly to smoke inhalation. But, increasingly, fire departments across the country are using pet oxygen masks to revive the animals.
After admitting to 16 bank robberies and being sentenced to more than five years in federal prison, Daniel Vincent could have reformed. After being released from federal custody in April 2008, the Aurora resident could have turned his life around.
Gary Mayor Rudy Clay and the Gary Police Department are urging citizens to stand together against criminals causing a surge of violence in their neighborhoods.
A Gurnee cab driver is being extradited to Ohio for gross abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence in connection with a skeleton discovered in southwest Ohio two years ago.
Two men have been charged by Buffalo Grove police this month with pretending to be something they're not: firefighters and police officers.
Tyrone McDowell Jr. worked in the Cook County Jail's Trust Department. But prosecutors say he betrayed his employer's trust repeatedly this year.
Two men were found shot just after midnight in the South Side's West Englewood neighborhood.
The first scheduled pitch is still seven months away, but the Chicago area's latest baseball team broke ground last week on its new stadium in far north suburban Zion.
The threat, found Wednesday in a school bathroom, was one of three threats the 14-year-old boy told police he wrote, said Joliet police Chief Fred Hayes. The student admitted to officers that he wrote the threats in hopes of getting out of school for the day. The youth is detained at the River Valley Juvenile Detention Center in Joliet until his expected court date Monday.
A 12-year-old boy from Buffalo Grove and a 41-year-old Elgin woman are the latest to die from swine flu. Both had underlying health problems, health officials said Friday. There had been 36 H1N1-related deaths statewide as of Friday.
Growing up, Pvt. Francheska Velez was a 'fraidy cat -- horror movies and bugs gave her the willies.
He loved playing guitar, writing songs and hanging out with his family in their Bolingbrook home.
A tow truck driver died Thursday night after he was run over by his own truck in an auto yard on the West Side, authorities said.
With the arrest of a 14-year-old, Chicago Police say they now have charged the four "main offenders who struck the critical blows" that killed Fenger High School honors student Derrion Albert, but they're still looking for three others.
An armed man dressed in black and "laying in wait" is responsible for attacking the manager of the Cubby Bear, a popular watering hole near Wrigley Field, police said Friday.
• Three area soldiers among Fort Hood dead
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• 4 'main offenders' in Fenger beating now charged, Weis says
• Landmarks panel rejects historic label for Reese
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• Tow truck runs over driver, kiling him
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• Vaccine for risk groups, not banks: CDC
• GOP gov hopefuls meet to debate, bash Obama
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• Base crumbling, so Brickhouse statue is moved
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• Metro briefs
• Brother Rice students honor fallen GI
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• $154K schools job for ex-Daley aide
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• North Side mystery: Where did falling ice come from?
• Evidence backs stroller mom's story, police, CTA say
• Suspects held without bail in slaying of DePaul student
• Ex-Chicago cop with cancer wins trial delay
• Chicagoans to get first seating at Millennium Park?
• Cops recover truck with 1,250 cases of stolen liquor
• Second guilty plea in Chicago bank teller's killing
• Kiplinger: Northwestern University a deal at $51,850 a year
• Overhaul would bring Maxwell Street Market back to glory
• Woman charged for driving into house with toddler in car
• Gang member stabbed by rivals at Cook County Jail
• Man charged with murder in fatal crash involving police
• Teen girl dies two weeks after Cicero shooting
• Passed-out bus driver hits 11 vehicles in Oak Park
• Lake County girl, 15, dies of H1N1 virus
• Brian Dugan expressed remorse for killing girl
• Teen's death linked to H1N1 virus
• Bus driver strike over layoffs an 'option'
• Man slain in Austin
• Workers asked to back fund-raiser
• Burge seeks trial delay, citing cancer
• Post office shipping prices to rise next year
• Pilot's ride: 'North by Northwest' crop duster
• Northwest Side man dies in three-story fall
• Bloodshed continues; 5th death in 6 days in Gary
• Man murdered in Humboldt Park
• Want to donate that coat you rarely wear anymore?
• Two arrested after stolen truckload of booze found on South Side
• Metro briefs
• Union head: Why does stroller appear udamaged?
• Chicago’s inspector general’s office sues the city
• Cops: Party ejection led to murder of DePaul student
• Palin will talk to Oprah, but won't sign books in Chicago
• Amtrak train hits, kills 2 near Stickney
• Judge sentences Degorski to life
• Enforcement delayed on abortion law relating to minors
• Case dismissed against cop accused of faking DUI arrests
• Obama's Kenwood home in dollhouse proportions
• Chicago: Get ready for 11-digit dialing
• Burge lawyer denies using illness to postpone case
• City replacing 911 workstations 9 months after updates
• Sears helps find rebates for energy-efficient appliances
• Ex-priest McCormack's hearings to be open to public
• Four trustees named to Chicago State board
• Blaze extinguished at SW Side Solo Cup factory
• Three shot trying to detain South Shore burglary suspect
• 850-pound safe apparently too heavy for burglars
• Bond set for man accused of killing pregnant woman, baby
• Power restored to Brown Line, 2 reported hospitalized
• West Side man arrested in beating death of teen mom
• SK Hand Tool workers end strike, get health insurance
• Jennifer Hudson: No place like home
• Man smoking burns more than 50% of his body
• Pit bulls, puppies rescued from dog-fight training site
• Suspended 10 days for not talking
• 'I turned into Mr. Hyde from Dr. Jekyll:' Dugan
• Feds tie Chicago terror suspect to India plot
• No more young visitors at Rush
• City inspector caught on tape: 'I'm completely fabricating'
• $3.7 mil. to study O'Hare terminal airlines don't want
• Film studio planned for West Side
• Downed power lines briefly shut Tri-State; repairs ahead
• How moms make ends meet
• New Regal sale in trouble
• Tribune Co. planning to switch ESOP to profit-sharing program
• Metro briefs
• Stroger grabs last ballot spot
• Aldermen bemoan cutback in library hours
• First time since '55: single Christmas tree
• CTA mother: 'Miraculous' daughter survived
• Agency that runs Navy Pier, McCormick Place in deep debt
• Developer: Block 37 site has 13 new retailers
• Zoning investigator admits taking bribes for false inspections
• Tri-State not closing after ComEd changes plans
• Woman killed after van tries to hit police, strikes four cars
• Hynes, Quinn battle tit-for-tat for governor
• Church rebukes nun for volunteering at abortion clinic
• Prosecutors: Terror suspect discussed other targets
• Tribune Co. ending ESOP plan for employee profit sharing
• 1 dose of flu vaccine for expectant moms, 2 for kids
• Feds force something new on Lawry's: Male servers
• Suspect in burglary gives judge middle finger, gets 6 months
• Brother thwarts man’s attempt to lure, kidnap girl in park: police
• Salon gives women from shelters, with cancer day of beauty
• Doctors say Dugan's brain is abnormal
• Hit-and-run driver kills bartender: Rachel 'will be sorely missed'
• Not too late: Weight loss works in middle age
• Deliveryman pistol-whipped, robbed of food and cash
• Help with heating bills available for poor
• Wreck near Midway sends three to hospitals
• Half of all kids on food stamps at some point
• Witness: 'She was yelling . . . the train had 'hit' her baby'
• Male stabbed during Southwest Side robbery
• Metro briefs
• Kids try to save horses
• What's your holiday budget?
• Deals keep sewage boss flush
• Joy, pain of bike commute
• Bystander killed at party
• Weekend workout leaves Daley with welt near eye
• New study finds that notorious Tsavo lions only ate 35 people
• Shooting at Halloween party leaves DePaul student dead
• Commissioner would accept suspension for hiring abuses
• Woman charged with causing death of infant
• $1M bond set for teen charged in Halloween shooting
• Burris: No compromise on health care having public option
• Ex-con charged with running down Cook County deputy at jail
• Police investigate death of teen mom from Garfield Park
• End of the line for two fine-dining establishments
• Judge tells BofA, Block 37 developer to get pedway
• Stanley Works tool maker to buy Black & Decker
• Little Village man slain near Malcolm X College
• Minority certification process debated
• Austin neighborhood youth supervisor slain on West Side
• Motorist dead in crash on West Side
• CTA commuter robbed at gunpoint on train
• Charges filed against suspect charged with lighting man on fire
• Police chase ends in crash, four in custody
• Online sources give info on costs, coverage
• Accomplished DePaul student killed at Humboldt Park party
• Gang-related attack in Englewood leaves man dead
• Pregnant woman shot trick-or-treating
• No mouth-to-mouth, just pump chest
• More misery on the roads
• Health-care insurance cheaper in the suburbs
• Columbia professor says bias complaint drew retaliation
• 2 freight trains derail, closing Northbrook road
• Car crash injures two in the South Side
• Metro briefs
• Metro briefs
• Tell CTA, Metra what you think about changes
• Man charged in murder of his wife
• Lawmakers' failure to end free rides angers Daley
• Flood advisory extended for Fox River
• Bullet strikes pregnant woman trick or treating on NW Side
• Train hauling grain derails in Northbrook
• Mechanical problems cause Metra delay
• Woman struck, killed in hit-and-run accident on North Side
• Woman fatally shot, teen wounded at West Side party
• Faulty doors at Cook County Jail lead to fights
• Quinn aide resigns after probe revealed
• Bond set for 4 men charged in Bridgeport kidnapping
• Man dead, woman injured in Humboldt Park shooting
• Metro briefs
• Restaurant employee turned into good friend
• Daley hedges bet on Chicago casino
• Sox Park spruce-up in the works
• No bond for man accused of murdering sister-in-law
• One dead, one wounded in shooting outside West Side party
• Bond set for four men in Bridgeport kidnapping
• Don't search me, aldermen warn
• No work, full pay for alderman's pal
• Judge OKs testimony on Dugan brain 'deficiencies'
• H1N1 virus kills 19 more kids: CDC
• Mother and daughter found slain in Gary
• Minority contracting figures still sore point for city
• Six injured in Southwest Side crash
• Ricketts outline game plan for owning Cubs
• Four men charged in South Side drug-related kidnapping
• Man shot by group who wanted him out of their 'area'
• Want lot next to Obamas?
• Seniors to keep free rides on CTA
• Channel 7 upgrades signal
• Firm sues over spaying of donated police dog
• Fat catering tip going back in small bites
• Jail worker accused of smuggling marijuana
• Cell call trips up pizza robber, faces 60 years
• Mom has collected 350,000 toys for needy kids
• Ball back at U. of C. after space mission
• Girl, 17, dies after Lake Shore Drive crash
• Zara hits Mag Mile in 'dream' site
• Ghost story back from the dead
• Husband accused of plotting murder to cover up brother's rape of wife
• Company holiday parties become casualty of downturn
• Bridgeport tops trick-or-treat spots
• Daley: Casino in Chicago should be government-owned
• State Senate passes major campaign-finance package
• Free CTA rides for seniors will continue
• Chicagoans taxes up 9 percent, Obama's taxes up 1 percent
• Aldermen upset at having to go through metal detectors, searches
• Brother Rice grad killed in Afghanistan
• City's minority-contracting numbers released
• Police capture suspects involved in drug-related kidnapping
• Regulators seize nine banks – all units of FBOP Corp. in Chicago
• Three cops hospitalized after West Side squad car wreck
• Threatening note puts Naperville school on 'soft lockdown'
• Unionized charter schools teachers sign contract
• Snuggies go to the dogs
• Teen dies nearly two months after Lake Shore Drive crash
• Woodlawn fight culminates with man stabbing brother
• It's Rod Zombie! Haunted prisons, Halloween frights
• Plenty of hauntings remain for Halloween weekend
• Evergreen Park's 1st war casualty
• Flu: Fact and fiction
• Senate moves to lower threshold for Stroger override
• Vets get long-overdue welcome after trip to D.C. memorials
• Unhappy anniversary: We had it worse in '29
• City plans to prosecute those lying about police misconduct
• City Clerk tells aldermen permit parking needs 'total review'
• Murder charges filed in McClendon slayings
• Husband charged in murder of woman found in shot trunk
• Senate candidate Hoffman meets with Axelrod
• Agency urged reprimand for Supt. Jody Weis
• Businessman accused of defrauding investors out of $28M
• Tollway expects boost in revenues after reconstruction
• Sting nets over 100 people on drug, gun, prostitution charges
• Garcia attempts comeback, seeks to run against Moreno
• 6 Fenger students from Altgeld Gardens want to transfer
• Two children wounded in gang crossfire in Morgan Park
• Police: Man accidentally shoots mother during fight with sister
• Suspicious package in Loop rendered safe
• Man found dead at Northwest Side CTA platform
• Crack the discount code
• Disturbance in liquor store ends with customer, employee shot
• Now you can have beer in the shower
• Aldermen accuse Daley of mortgaging Chicago's future
• Starkesia Reed's killer sentenced to 150 years in prison
• Police review board urged to give reasons for decisions
• UniCare to stop selling health insurance in state
• Proposed deal to demolish Bensenville homes near O'Hare
• Make your own holiday gifts to save a bundle, mom says
• Terror suspect duped by friend, lawyer says
• Droid built for speed, screen
• Police shortage a growing problem; city 2,000 shy
• Local talent in focus at Chicago's fashion week
• Metro briefs
• Which Chicago ward gets the most parking tickets?
• Chicago terror suspect claims he was 'duped' by friend
• Costco wants Kiddieland site
• Targeted Danish cartoonist feels safe, but angry
• Two children shot in South SIde drive-by
• Daley: Don't punish BofA for moving to foreclose on Block 37
• $1M bond for man charged with harming infant
• One dead, two hurt when chased vehicle hits tree
• Hotel workers vote to strike if fair contract isn't reached
• Not guilty pleas entered for teens in McClendon murders
• Blue Line delayed after person struck, killed by train
• 2 accused of stealing from mourners' cars at cemetery
• 'Tank' Johnson recalls night friend was killed
• Fenger student charged with concealing a homicide
• Man accused of touching sleeping womens' legs pleads not guilty
• Two dead, two injured in Englewood shooting
• South Side drive-by leaves 18-year-old dead
• Is Negro League Hall of Famer player buried here?
• Council may reject any large pay hikes for cops: aldermen
• Church defrocks popular ex-priest accused of abuse
• Frankfort shop a dream come true for owner
• South Side projects at risk
• Humboldt Park man charged with stabbing on S. Side
• Job-hunting tips as holidays near
• Spray liberally near the stingy
• 1st foe in 19 years for Rep. Dan Burke
• Suit accuses Pinnacle of deceptive sales tactics
• Metro briefs
• Cubs sale final: Ricketts family take ownership
• Daley touts property tax relief
• Drew Peterson suing JP Morgan Chase
• Heart attack survival rates improve in women
• Terrorism suspect a heroin smuggler with striking eyes
• Deputy U.S. marshal gets four years in prison in mob case
• Former fugitive Maday ordered held without bond
• Neighbors of terror suspect: Family kept to itself
• Daley defends cuts in Chicago's curbside recycling program
• Woman 'stable' after falling on Blue Line tracks; major delays
• Demonstrators protest at Chicago banker’s meeting
• Jackson ally's 'rich white man' remark
• Foreclosures highest in Rockford area
• Crackdown as one-third of Streets, San out daily
• Hospitals restrict visits over H1N1 concerns
• Humboldt Park house fire leaves 6 displaced, no injuries
• Andy McKenna enters Illinois governor's race
• Sun-Times sale to Tyree group complete
• City may pay you for turning in tax cheats
• Body of woman found in trunk
• Searching for angels
• Blame the dollar: Gasoline jumps 26 cents in a month
• 20 stitches for guard slashed by Theraflu-stealing shoplifter
• 'Little Buddy' GPS device keeps tabs on your kid
• Money-back guarantee from fertility center
• Whose property taxes went up most in Chicago?
• Motorist over twice the legal limit plows into fire truck: police
• U.S. newspaper circulation down 10.6 percent
• Shareholders fail to show Midway Games execs hid financial condition
• St. Charles East High reopens after H1N1 scare
• Metro briefs
• Jobs: fewer cutting, more adding
• Business owner helped family get on Blago payroll
• 17-year-old sitting in car killed by robber
• Legislature seeks CTA solutions
• Suburban bank to plead guilty to conspiracy
• Chicago cops told to Taser suspects in the back
• 4-year-old dies after igniting clothes with lighter
• You could live next to the Obamas -- for at least $1.85M
• Services held for CLTV host's parents
• Nightclub patron describes shooting of Tank Johnson's bodyguard
• Rev. Sharpton joins Fenger parents to spotlight violence
• Line forms early to run for Cook County Board president
• Candidates for governor overwhelmingly Catholic
• Teacher of year transformed by job
• Chicago student shot, killed
• Man found dead at Northwest Side police lockup
• Hynes picking up 2 more union endorsements
• Candidates lining up to run against Stewart in CTU election
• Ex-U. of I. chancellor Herman says his resignation will help school
• Gov. Quinn appoints John Colgan to ICC
• Quinn appoints 3 to state Latino Family Commission
• Hearings on transit agency budgets set
• Apple may pay millions to 'dominate' CTA station
• Students' vehicle sticker design entries due Friday
• Web tips on getting that job
• Pedestrian who ran out of gas hit by semi, knocked into ditch
• City puts breaks on red-light camera project
• Sun-Times cites rate hike, industry trends in circulation drop
• Austin shooting claims life of man
• Troop tribute salutes families
• Two armed robberies reported in Rogers Park
• Family tragedy melts into fight over estate
• Motorist fatally shot in head on West Side
• Metro briefs
• Man fatally stabbed in South Holland domestic
• Axelrod's daughter: 'Why does Obama need so much help?'
• Hundreds turned away at clinics giving H1N1 shots
• The Fixer: Overdraft fees get out of hand
• At least 2 teens questioned in McClendons' slaying
• A church that pays you to come on Sunday?
• 17-year-old fatally shot in attempted robbery on Far South Side
• Man dies after being shot in the back during chase
• DCFS investigating death of Oak Park baby
• Off-duty Metra officer exchanges fire with gunmen
• Suspect arrested in Hanover Park after 13-hour standoff
• 2 teens charged in McClendon slayings
• Police trade shots with mentally ill elderly man
• God spoke to me, suspect tells Oprah
• Fire reported at North Side diner
• U. of C. turning cherished garden into construction site
• Police seek female suspect in fatal stabbing in Bronzeville
• Metro briefs
• Metro briefs
• Clinics turn away hundreds seeking H1N1 vaccine
• Jeanine Nicarico's parents testify at Dugan sentencing
• Even former champ Ernie Terrell doesn't feel safe in Roseland
• 'I have forgiven the perpetrators'
• Trainer's a life saver
• Two teenagers held in McClendon murders
• Jennifer Hudson finds happiness a year after nightmare
• Man found fatally shot in Gresham neighborhood
• Is McCormick Place East coming down?
• Minn. 'terror' warrant tossed
• Great Lakes clinic merging with North Chicago VA
• Death of fisherman ruled involuntary manslaughter
• Men in custody following shooting on Near North Side
• Man drives self to hospital after Ausin shooting
• Obama's tennis wins tick her off, Michelle tells Jay
• Albany Park shooting sends two teens, minor to hospital
• More guys skip the soap after the loo, English study finds
• 2 south suburban men charged in offshore betting ring
• Teen charged with snapping up turtle
• $1.55M for traffic aide who said cops retaliated for ticket
• $2 million bail set in grandma's attack
• Metro briefs
• Flare-up at Fenger leads to lockdown
• Garrard McClendon says he forgives parents' killers
• Judge drops fugitive warrant for man accused of 'terrorism'
• Wrigley neighbors: Clark project too tall
• $2 million bail for man accused of stabbing grandmother
• Metra, Amtrak service delays continue after derailment
• Amelia Earhart in Chicago
• Nicarico's father: 'No longer is the boogeyman a fairy tale'
• Female found dead in alley by Chicago Theatre: police
• Arrest for ticketing cop's car nets traffic aide more than $1 million
• Michelle Malkin slams President Obama in Chicago
• Girl, 14, shot in foot in Back of the Yards neighborhood
• Man convicted of involuntary manslaughter in fisherman's death
• Woman found dead in alley by Chicago Theatre: police
• Jennifer Hudson returns to Chicago finally hapy again
• U.S. bank closures pass 100 for the year
• Three-semi crash closes lanes on Kenneney
• Teen girl arrested for hitting teacher with belt buckle: police
• Man fatally shot in south suburban Harvey
• Seven displaced after fire in West Garfield Park
• Jury hears Dugan's '85 murder confessions
• Cut tax, lose benefits: Stroger
• Expect delays this weekend on Blue, Brown, Red Lines
• B of A on city hot seat after Block 37 foreclosure filed
• Police fire shots at motorist on SW Side
• Fisherman recalls tattoo, 'evil' look
• Stimulus cash sought to broaden Net access
• Taser warning spurs Chicago into review
• Butterball phone team nearly ready to talk turkey
• Five Chicago assets that could be sold off next
• Rock stars: Field Museum exhibits are gem dandy
• Study: Daily grind can be good for marriage
• Stick to list for super grocery savings
• Terror suspect arrested at O'Hare: police
• Metro briefs
• Baby dies after saved from crash where mother was killed
• Officials investigate how freight train rolled out, derailed
• Quinn to run for governor in 2010 amid mounting troubles
• Still time to close the deal for $8,000 tax credit
• Franklin Park president says $9 million misspent
• Teen killed near his school
• Chicago offers H1N1 vaccine free for those at highest risk
• Chicago area unemployment hits 10.1 percent
• New York Times first client of CNC news-gathering venture
• 5 Fenger High students arrested after lunchroom fight
• Smokers help cops snuff out three criminals in South Loop
• One teen wounded in Wicker Park attack, bullet just misses another
• Will Pullman Park become Chicago's next neighborhood?
• Woman bites cop during Logan Square arrest
• City plans to pick up recycle bins every third week
• Designing daughter: From gov's mansion to N.Y. fashion
• Panel recommends 2nd cervical cancer vaccine
• Wishing for a casino: Gamblers 'might as well lose it in Chicago'
• 4 more unions to endorse Giannoulias
• Need a shot? Get in line
• Host's goal: 'motivate and educate'
• Sun-Times cartoonist at home in Clarendon Hills
• Judge tosses Dart's suit vs. Craigslist
• THE DUGAN MURDERS The girl who escaped
• Brit gets discount on old post office
• Bicyclist dies after falling under truck
• Bail for state worker accused of bribe-taking
• Student exonerated in beating won't return to Fenger
• Mayor Daley defends decision to raid city's reserves
• Rape victim: Dugan threatened my sisters
• Old Main Post Office sold to original bidder
• Slain couple's car abandoned on Dan Ryan
• Parolee charged in South Loop attack over cigarettes, again
• Motorcyclist killed in Dan Ryan crash
• Boy found after sleepwalking to school in middle of the night
• CTA to allow credit cards at its lots
• St. Charles East High School closed after 900 out sick
• 85-year-old motorist drives into North Shore tanning parlor
• Man dead, female wounded during Cicero shooting
• Cook County health, hospitals issues layoff notices
• Lon Monk, former top Blagojevich aide, pleads guilty
• No Pepsi, only Coke at CTA stations
• Sen. Brady launches 'jobs tour'
• Aldermen told details of Daley's raid on reserves
• Sandwich teen dies from H1N1 flu virus
• Pair of teens charged in Lawndale rape: police
• Fire raging at popular Glenview restaurant
• Mechanic lodged in street sweeper dies in Back of the Yards
• Survey: Home-price floor not reached
• Low-carb diet may help with spinal injuries
• Block 37 developer facing foreclosure
• Contractor dead after accident with sewer equipment
• Jury spares Brown's killer
• CTA chief operating officer to retire after maxing out pension
• Canning my summer of CSA
• Metro briefs
• Jury sentences James Degorski to life in prison
• Could city's budget cuts sink Venetian Night?
• St. Charles East High School closed after major flu outbreak
• Royko's son gets 30 months for failed bank robbery
• University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman resigns
• Freed Fenger suspect's mom: I knew it wasn't him
• Embers from roof work ignite fire at U of C building
• Layoff notices for bus drivers, other CTA workers
• Many bitten by online teeth-whitening offer
• Time to pay Cook County property tax
• Daley: Police hiring to stay slow
• Man suspected of throwing beer bottle at teen faces felony charges
• Cops: McDonald's workers found and used customer's debit card
• Ill. pastor’s accused killer found unfit for trial
• Ill. treasurer sets date to auction hotel
• Autopsies: Man, woman found in forest preserve were shot
• Going to pieces: Kiddieland rides to be auctioned off
• Male nurse charged with sexually abusing patient at Uptown hospital
• Man walking with brother slain in South Chicago community
• Musical training could make you a better listener
• Appeals court overrules judge who cut 25-year sentence to 15
• State's tech exports growing, but future challenging
• State investigating death of 6-month-old boy
• Outsourcing firm readies to hire, expand
• Ownership lawsuit stalls CBOE's switch to stock-based company
• Target, CVS encourage reusing shopping bags by paying back their customers
• Postal Service delivers 1st-class news: No price hike
• Vandals flatten tires on 32 school buses
• Metro briefs
• Jail letter from Fenger suspect to mom
• Degorski's mother describes killer's bizarre upbringing
• With holiday supplies tight, 'right' gift hard to find
• Tollway rebuilding, widening projects enter homestretch
• Judge fears Blago might talk about case on 'Apprentice'
• Rep. Bean cancels flu speech — after kid gets flu
• 7-year-old boy struck by school bus in Algonquin
• Charges dropped against one teen in Fenger beating death
• Man assaults girls he met online
• Fatality reported after car plunges into Lombard retention pond: police
• Man killed while working on pickup truck
• CTA sends out layoff notices
• Family feud might disrupt Hyatt Hotels' business
• Girl hit in street brawl may lose sight in eye
• Man charged with sexually assaulting child he met online: police
• Daley to eliminate 220 vacant city jobs to prevent future tax hikes
• Fatherly behavior may be learned early
• Ohio man found in hallway of Holiday Inn dies
• Crashes leading cause of teen deaths
• Quinn OKs 2nd-semester aid for college students
• Teen suffers multiple gunshot wounds during Hamilton Park attack
• Teen pilot OK after fiery crash on road
• Gary airport plans $50 million project to move train tracks
• Plainfield-Near West Side bus service
• NW Side motorist dead in Edens crash, speeding suspected
• Elvis auction nets $304K, triple the estimate
• Suburban man suspected in as many as 50 car break-ins
• Bye, Buell: Harley getting out of sport-bike market
• 4 recommended by topless bar owner hired by Blago
• Proposed Muslim school opposed
• Man stabbed near Navy Pier's Ferris wheel
• Metro briefs
• Four males charged in Far South Side street fight
• 2 suspended after cop left to fend for self
• Man stabbed during argument at Navy Pier
• Man shot by police after allegedly attempting to shoot them
• Teens wounded in Roseland shooting
• $350,000 bond set for dad accused of abusing infant son
• Evanston considers ban on Ryan Field peddlers
• Shooting victim finds strength in family, church
• Man killed in Back of the Yards shooting
• Politicians begged Blagojevich for jobs
• State jobless rate hits 10.5 percent in September
• A steal! 'Villa Taj' of Burr Ridge on block for $6.2M
• Brown's Chicken killer Degorski doesn't fit profile of a killer
• Gov. Quinn: Limit seniors’ free rides
• Man killed in hit-and-run on West Side
• Police shoot man near South Side CTA station
• Joffrey Ballet holds first costume sale
• Newborn left in basement; woman jailed
• State Sen. DeLeo shown sponsoring widow of mob associate
• Dugan victim: 'I had to get away'
• 2 Chicago schools programs offer hope on violence
• Man killed in Back of the Yards shooting
• Seven hurt in crash involving squad car in Logan Square
• Salman Rushdie: The man with a golden memory
• Top cop hailed in '08 NIU slayings may lose his job
• 'Black Wall Street' hit hard by sewer project
• Male found dead in Joliet's Highland Park
• Metro briefs
• Video of Chicago cops in Pittsburgh sparks investigation
• Winfrey, Daley meet Mike Tyson
• Daley rolls dice to avoid Chicago tax hike
• MPC Products whistleblower's reward: $4.5 million
• Inside Rod Blagojevich's jobs machine
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• Millions in college scholarship money restored for 2010
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• Police seek car in Pilsen fatal hit-and-run
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• Garrett Popcorn coming back to Michigan Avenue
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• Police: Boy playing with lighter burns 40 percent of body
• Armed robbery in Austin leaves man wounded
• Jim Ryan to run for governor despite 'Levine problem'
• Daley rules out property tax increase to close budget gap
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• Thompson Center to remove granite slabs for safety reasons
• Cops: Man brought girlfriend to drive-by
• Prison bus breakdown closes lanes on I-55
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• Beanie battle: Ty Inc. tells Target to stop using trademarked term
• Students in accident right after lesson
• Legal online horse wagering off to races
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• What a deal! $25 million mansion now up for $6 mil.
• Proposed CTA fare hikes call for $3 L rides
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• Postal authorities discuss plan for Main Post Office
• Mercy Medical Center: Chicago's clout hospital
• Dugan switches to Judaism -- for the food
• Is an apology enough over 'black fag' remark?
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• Rev. Jesse Jackson escorts students to Fenger
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• Stiffer college aid standards sought
• Brady: Giannoulias botched savings plan
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• Obama premature Nobel Peace Prize honor a potential liability
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• 2-year-old killed in East Garfield Park blaze
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• Illinois facing college cash crunch
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• Cardinal's book faults liberal, conservative Catholics
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• Pigment's time to shine as leaves change color
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• Tillman: Washington Center woes are 'plantation politics'
• Mayor Daley to sign abortion protest bubble law
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