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State senator acquitted of trespassing, damaging neighbor’s property
State Sen. Suzi Schmidt (R-Lake Villa) was acquitted Wednesday of trespassing and criminal damage to property charges stemming from a June squabble with neighbors. After the ruling, Schmidt said it was “very sad” that the dispute with a neighboring family had escalated to the point …
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Next Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has done it all, from teacher to superintendent
Only some four months into her role as Chicago’s “interim” Chief Education Officer, Barbara Byrd-Bennett was tapped to sit at the contract negotiating table while Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard remained in his office, receiving only second-hand reports about events that topped the news night after night. Now, Byrd-Bennett will be moving into Brizard’s office.
EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard out by ‘mutual agreement’
Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard, one of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s premier hires, is out by “mutual agreement” with City Hall after just 17 months on the job, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. Brizard was Emanuel’s pick to lead CPS and push through the mayor’s aggressive education agenda. But with the city’s first teachers strike in 25 years in the rear view mirror and a new contract to be implemented, Emanuel said it’s “time for a clean break.”
Police: Woman stole $200K from grandmother, 98
Family ties were not strong enough to keep a northwest suburban woman from stealing more than $200,000 from her 98-year-old grandmother, Cook County prosecutors said. Jennifer Curtis, 43, of the 300 block of Tanglewood in Palatine, was arrested Wednesday and charged with forgery and senior …
Cook County Circuit Court employee charged with bribery, official misconduct
A Cook County Circuit Court employee was charged with bribery and official misconduct Thursday for allegedly promising an entry-level job in exchange for a bribe. Jason Carrasco, a unionized office clerk in the Probate Division, did not have the authority to make hires, and has …
CTA approves retail space leases for produce stand, cafe
CTA riders in West Englewood will soon be able to grab an apple while heading downtown. And commuters at the Grand Avenue Red Line station can sip “gourmet” coffee by next year. The CTA board paved the way for the amenities Thursday when it approved …
Cook County Jail hopes guitar lessons change inmates’ tune
Call it Cook County Jail unplugged. A program to teach inmates how to play guitar and channel their feelings into song writing kicked off with an event at Cook County Jail’s Division 11 Thursday. The program, which will take advantage of 10 donated acoustic guitars …
CTA to parents: break down those strollers when bus is crowded
Attention, moms and dads on the CTA: Put the stroller away, pick up your kid and make way for others when riding crowded buses. That’s the message the CTA will soon be telling parents via pamphlets and signs and through its drivers.
NIU president says he’s stepping down next spring
Northern Illinois University President John G. Peters announced Thursday he is stepping down next spring after 13 years at the helm. He made his announcement during his annual state of the university address. “I can’t express in words my love for this university and its …
Chicago police to offer bounty for crooks with guns
Crooks could start ratting on other crooks anonymously for cash in a program the Chicago Police Department plans to launch in the next few months to take guns off the street.
Feds investigating disabled Chicago firefighters, paramedics in wake of Sun-Times’ reports
A federal grand jury that’s investigating disability payments to Chicago police officers in the wake of a Chicago Sun-Times investigation is also probing injury claims from Chicago firefighters and paramedics, newly obtained records show.
Person arrested in Englewood squad car crash that injured cop
A vehicle hit a squad car in the South Side Englewood neighborhood Wednesday night, leaving a Chicago Police officer and two other people injured, authorities said. The crash happened near 75th Street and Union Avenue about 9:25 p.m., when police officers witnessed the vehicle violating …
Drew Peterson let out of jail briefly to see mother in funeral home
Convicted killer Drew Peterson was briefly whisked out of the Will County Jail Thursday to pay a final visit to his mother, who died earlier this week. Peterson was escorted by sheriff’s deputies to a Darien funeral home to see his mother, 84-year-old Betty Morphey, attorney Joel Brodsky said. It was Peterson’s first time outside the jail — aside from court hearings — since his arrest in 2009.
Beloved Southwest Side priest moves into new home
Father Dan Mallette finally has a new home. The 80-year-old Southwest Side Catholic priest, who publicly quarreled with church leaders after being ordered to leave the rectory at St. Margaret of Scotland Church after his retirement, moved into a private residence in Oak Lawn on Sunday, according to Mallette’s cousin, Kevin Werner.
Second alleged ‘nun-on-the-run’ robber nabbed
A young black man who allegedly posed as an old white nun when he robbed a south suburban bank last summer has been arrested. Lyndon Germel Wesley, 28, is the second of two so-called “nuns-on-the-run” robbers to be caught, federal authorities say. His alleged accomplice …
Hillside man tied to bombing to be arraigned in court
A young man from Hillside charged with trying to detonate a bomb outside a downtown bar in September — not realizing it was a fake as part of an FBI sting — is expected to be arraigned in federal court in Chicago this afternoon.
- Cop, two others hurt in squad car crash
- Chicago foreclosures up from year ago, down for the month
- Armed robbery sparks manhunt through ‘burbs, two men held
- Preckwinkle seeking legal action against county assessor
- Walsh, Duckworth trade barbs over whistleblower lawsuit
- Emanuel on ‘consolidating’ schools: ‘We know we have to do it’
- Mayor supports Bulls practice facility, DePaul basketball arena under one roof
- Duckworth lucky she didn’t take Walsh’s bet
- State senator acquitted of trespassing, damaging neighbor’s property
- Preckwinkle calls predecessor Stroger ‘inept’
- Judge extends order barring Gov. Quinn from closing prisons
- Machester City, UAE partner with Pritzkers for new Logan Park soccer field
- Otter saved from Exxon spill euthanized at Shedd
- Community policing to get boost, Mayor Emanuel vows
- Police: Man set bonfires to keep marijuana plants warm
- Speed-camera revenues figure in Emanuel’s ‘children first’ budget
- Wendella to offer free rides to mark 50 years of water taxi
- Two UIC students robbed at gunpoint near campus
- Prepared text of Emanuel’s budget speech
- Tweets from Mayor Emanuel's budget address
- 3 charged in Edgewater jewelry store heist
- Cops: Man, 77, stole ambulance
- Man dies after being found unresponsive on plane to Midway
- Police: One dead in Zion hit-and-run crash
- Canadian truck driver killed in South Side robbery
- New search for Asian carp as samples found close to Lake Michigan
- Mom of former Fenger High QB sues CPS
- Lawyer: New trial sought for Drew Peterson
- Former CHA chief to head a California housing authority
- City: Street in Pilsen is ‘greenest in America’
- Illinois, Indiana big source of guns used in Chicago crimes, say cops
- The case of the cop’s girlfriend getting soaked by a hydrant begins in federal court
- With Florida death, Six Flags in Gurnee ‘reviewing’ cockroach eating contest
- Man denies friend slain in Fla. flirted with alleged killer’s wife
- Hiring 500 police officers in 2013 not enough, aldermen say
- Twitter: Live updates from the Walsh, Duckworth debate
- Schaumburg police chief denies threatening ex-girlfriend
- Emanuel fires back at Quinn, denies scheme for Wrigley rehab
- City, CTA union reach deal to cut costs, speed repairs
- Retired Chicago cop kills son after mistaking him for burglar: sources
- Democratic PAC uses ‘loud’ Joe Walsh in ads against Dold, Biggert
- Fired counselor who wrote sex book: ‘I’m a good guy’
- Elderly man killed in North Side auto collision
- Long bargaining session in Evergreen Park but no agreement
- Boy, 17, fatally shot, another teen wounded
- Pilot error caused 2010 Naperville plane crash: NTSB
- Outdoor museum on North Side highlights gays
- Cook County mulling violence tax on guns and ammunition
- Quinn accuses Emanuel of seeking ‘backroom deal’ to fix up Wrigley
- Police: Robbers tied up clerk in Edgewater jewelry store heist
- Tuesday is last day to register to vote
- Teen arrested for smoking pot in front of police chief’s house in Naperville
- Suburban man says he’s stuck in Egypt thanks to terrorist watch list mistake
- So this guy was juggling flaming torches near camping fuel ...
- Schillerstrom now appealing tax cases to board members he appointed
- Telander, Ebert among Sun-Times winners of Chicago journalism awards
- Up to 5 Illinois recipients of recalled drug tested for meningitis
- City unveils riverwalk concept, asks feds for help building it
- Beverage giants offer city $5 million prize to avoid new tax
- Lake Villa Bears fan stabbed to death in Jacksonville
- 2 killed, 13 injured in weekend shootings
- Woman dies in Des Plaines house fire
- Country Club Hills fire chief’s conviction undisclosed
- Alleged terrorist’s family says there’s more to story
- Nonprofit goes after college dropouts to help them finish degree
- New Will County High-Tech Crimes Unit tracking predators online
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- Women elite runners
- Men’s elite runners
- Man on bike in Cicero killed when struck by vehicle
- 26.2 miles of grimaces and smiles to the finish
- Two struck by vehicle during fight outside River North nightclub
- First-time marathoners beware of ‘Mount Roosevelt’
- Death toll from meningitis outbreak reaches 7
- Elk Grove man arrested for plot to bomb Oklahoma churches
- Female marathon greats reminisce day before race
- Murder victim at Back of the Yards playground screamed, ‘I’m shot, I’m shot’
- Gary plane crash victims from Florida
- Authorities: domestic violence ends in murder in Lake County
- Rev. Jesse Jackson honored at 71st birthday
- Police: Man dies from injuries in alcohol-related crash in Elgin
- Man fatally shot in Jeffrey Manor during fight over bicycle
- Ex-cop now running Streets and San
- 10th congressional District Pricey race pits Dold vs. Schneider
- National Weather Service issues freeze warning
- For northwest Illinois’ economy, Thomson prison ‘going to be good’
- Chicago race is convenient, but Boston Marathon granddaddy of them all
- Blind man races for charity
- Cops keep an eye on carefully cultivated pot plot
- Dwyane Wade’s ex: biased judicial system tilted against her in custody case
- Chicago area patients warned about meningitis-linked injections
- Honey executive handed not-so-sweet prison sentence
- CPS reveals plan to pay for first year of teachers’ raises
- Colder weather may slow cases of West Nile
- South Side businessman indicted in scheme to steal state health grants
- Bicyclist, lawyer killed in traffic remembered at candlelight vigil
- Man claims he got cancer from liver transplant
- Illinois shipped questionable steroid
- Emergency room wait times down at Cook County hospital
- Suit: Robbins Police used excessive force, caused miscarriage
- Car allegedly used in bride’s murder found in garage of groom’s brother
- Bus driver chauffeured celebrities while collecting CTA disability checks
- Chicago Fire Department lieutenant dies from West Nile Virus
- Court employee and sheriff’s officer allegedly bilked $2,000 from couple
- Feds: Psychologist saw dead people, billed Medicare
- Light at the end of Wacker Drive tunnel, road project
- Powerbroker gets 1 year in prison in movie producer shakedown
- For rent: Preckwinkle’s deluxe county digs downtown
- Cubs get OK to tear down the wall, add more seats
- Suit: 13-year-old boy strip-searched at school
- Man convicted of killing 2 women who were in car with ex-girlfriend
- Riverdale mayor accused of doing village work while on state clock
- City watchdog cites lax controls at Water Management Department
- Aldermen push for details on feared school closings
- Fugitive who turned himself in gets 8 years in prison
- Woman stabbed in Englewood
- Libertyville man accused of striking Metra conductor
- CPS teachers overwhelmingly approve new contract
- Watching the debate with Rahm Emanuel: High fives, big smiles and a few near yawns
- U. of C. dino hunter Paul Sereno’s latest find had ‘freaky hairdo’
- CTA plans for $203 million makeover of Wilson L station unveiled
- City announces first 23 locations for new food trucks
- Mayor moves to crack down on residential disabled parking abuses
- Emanuel blames teachers’ strike for Spring Break change
- $10 million marijuana crop found growing on South Side
- Jesse Jackson Jr. may not return to work until after election, wife says
- Chicago Marathon facts
- Brace yourself for temperatures in the 30s this weekend
- Emanuel overhauls ethics board, dumps all 7 members
- Metra train kills pedestrian in Hyde Park
- More than 20 years a fugitive, a drug dealer turns himself in
- Experts debate dehydration finding in Chicago Marathon death
- South Side left without power more often than North Side
- Pot plants as tall as Christmas trees found near Bishop Ford
- High-tech cop car won’t spin out — no matter how hard reporter tries
- Labor unrest rising? Not really: Work stoppages way down since 1980s
- Rahm to U. of I. tech aces: Won’t you please come to Chicago?
- Don’t look to Thomson for prisoners like Blago
- Contractors doing business with Cook County board now must report problems to watchdog
- Cook County awards $700k contract to keep indigent burials in state
- Gang member guilty of killing ATF informant
- Mayor Emanuel announces $4 million more for programs to keep kids off the streets
- City to pay $1.36 million to man injured in police chase
- Done deal: Feds to buy Thomson prison from state for $165 million
- Man gets 4 months in jail for child porn possession
- Aurora police seek more victims of suspected online predator
- Aldermen worry about false claims against them under whistleblower law
- Ex-Bear Tommie Harris allegedly threatened cop
- South suburban man dies after two shot in Roseland
- Indiana man arrested after stabbing dog that bit his son’s face
- Police warn of armed robberies at North Side stores
- Man shot in groin multiple times outside South Side strip club
- CTU members vote on contract deal that ended teachers strike
- Homicide rate leveling off, police records show
- Drought-lowered Mississippi River hurts barge traffic, consumer prices
- Retired Southwest Side ‘Super Priest’ might spend ‘a few more days’ at longtime parish
- Kentucky State quarterback charged with touching woman at hotel
- Boy, 13, shot on South Side
- City to award $3.4 million to man cleared of murder after spending eight years in prison
- Emanuel wants DePaul basketball back in city but plays coy on where
- Man at court for cocaine case brings cocaine to court: police
- City reaches labor agreement with non-sworn public safety workers
- CTA Red Line service resumes after train ends up on two tracks
- Scammers using Zillow data to rent out apartments they don’t own
- American flight from Chicago makes emergency landing in St. Louis
- 77-year-old accused of approaching girl for sex act
- Two major trade shows extend McCormick Place commitments
- $325,000 bond in Streamwood kidnapping case
- Riccardo Muti and company find receptive audience at juvenile detention center
- Combative priest Rev. Mallette not ready to step aside
- 30th annual service remembers Chicago firefighters killed in service
- Family: Man killed at hot dog stand was leaving gang life
- Fire crews still spraying water on remains of warehouse fire
- Game ends, but battle of the college bands keeps 30k in their seats at Soldier Field
- CPS graduates to receive upper hand in city hiring
- Northbound Lake Shore Drive ramp at Oak Street closes starting Monday
- Autopsies: two men found in trunk were beaten to death
- Prosecutors: Teen shot Sauk Village man over theft of brother’s iPhone
- Police: man missing from South Lawndale may be ‘confused’
- Fourteen-year-old charged in fatal shooting of another teen
- West suburban police officer seriously injured when struck by car
- Man in custody for Streamwood home invasion, kidnapping
- Invisible Jesse Jackson Jr. seen as heavy favorite in lopsided congressional race
- Parents gripe over changes to Chicago Public Schools calendar
- Report: DePaul in talks for new hoops arena near McCormick Place
- Illinois House races: Democrats see ‘path’ to majority; GOP sees ‘ground zero for a problem’
- Man convicted of 2006 murder of Jesse White tumbler
- Bosses less stressed than workers, researchers report
- Possible cougar sighting in Schaumburg
- Two bodies found in car trunk on SW Side
- City files notice to appeal Occupy Chicago ruling
- Northwestern student death ruled a drowning
- Woman shot in Uptown drives herself to hospital
- Mayor highlights $65 million in projects on Near South Side
- Cops: Murder of boy, 14, was mistaken identity
- Chicago cop held on $100,000 bail, accused of having sex with prisoner
- Emanuel ‘not pleased’ with downgrade in CPS’ credit rating
- Body pulled from lake near Navy Pier
- Man pleads guilty to soliciting hitman to kill estate executor
- Pilot boyfriend uses fake plane emergency over Chicago to propose
- Man arrested in Sauk Village shooting death
- Vehicle fatally strikes woman in Chatham
- Four inmates hospitalized after Cook County Jail fight
- New child safety zones open near schools
- Chicago Public Schools’ credit rating cut by Moody’s
- Body of Northwestern student pulled from Wilmette harbor
- Michelle Obama in Chicago: Election ‘closer than the last one’
- Strike make-up days mean no Presidents’ Day and shorter winter break for students
- Joliet tenants allegedly called ‘rats and whores from Chicago’
- Lawsuit filed over Crest Hill ‘party-game punch’ death
- City board’s hiring raises questions of independence
- DuPage man charged in Willowbrook drive-by murder
- Man charged in murder of 15 year-old killed on birthday last year
- Video: Biba Golic, Ariel Hsing face off at Chicago International Table Tennis Festival
- Police and fire unions blast inspector general’s $1.2 billion in budget ideas
- Elgin man gets two years in prison for killing Chihuahua
- Person struck by Metra train in Bensenville
- Koschman probe bills top $366,000, special prosecutor now questioning police
- Dad allegedly took smoke break while 8-month-old son drowned
- Judge throws out charges against Occupy Chicago protesters
- Federal judge considered to replace Patrick Fitzgerald
- Construction crew hits gas line in River North, traffic rerouted
- CTA, Pace to launch joint fare system Ventra in 2013
- Megachurch pastor admits sex with teen girl, says he ‘was not aware of law’
- Winning Lotto ticket sold in Rolling Meadows
- Elgin man charged after 60 dead cats found in van
- Suit: Family seeks retribution for abusive nanny
- Family offers $25,000 reward in search for missing NU student
- Dozens of dead cats found in van at Elgin home
- Boy, 17, fatally shot on the South Side
- Actor on flight from Chicago grabs women, says ‘I want to kiss you’
- Parish supporters rally around ‘living saint’ they say is being pushed to retire
- Laptop renters secretly spied on by hidden software
- Report: Nearly $100,000 in unacccounted Cook County commissioner expenses
- ‘Flameless cremation’ offers green option for body disposal
- Grad student charged in double murder held without bail
- Reputed Chicago mob crew leader gets 1 year behind bars
- PTA sues rival PTO for trademark infringement, false advertising
- Casualties from the Indiana National Guard 713th Engineer Company
- Deadliest ever deployment for Ind. National Guard unit finally ends
- Man gets 85 years for killing boy playing video games in Lockport home
- Family of woman killed in Megabus crash file lawsuit
- FBI joins search for Northwestern University student
- Man charged with killing pair found stabbed to death in burning apartment
- Auction of indicted Dixon comptroller’s horses makes millions
- Sandi Jackson calls media outside her fund-raiser ‘jackals’
- South Loop man’s death ruled a homicide
- Former Mayor Daley’s students reach out to help Gary, Indiana
- Jury returns $14.4 million verdict to family of brain-damaged boy
- Naperville businessmen skirted paying taxes on $22 million in income, feds allege
- Trial starts for murdered Jesse White tumbler and Robeson High School basketball player
- Mayor not picking sides in Prentice hospital showdown
- Emanuel administration fleshes out downtown bus rapid transit
- Former city animal commissioner sued over foundation payments
- Police: DuPage teen targeted in deadly shooting
- Teachers union official asks CPS for ‘truce of peace’ after strike
- Mayor denies being conduit between Israel and Obama White House
- Convicted businesswoman: I hired 2 top Hispanic legislators as lobbyists
- Drew Peterson back in court amid lawyers’ feud
- Asian carp DNA detected in Lake Erie
- Emanuel: I won’t raise amusement tax, but cigarette tax hike possible
- 3rd DuPage West Nile death reported
- Pastor of St. Bernadette in Evergreen Park resigns amid sex abuse claim
- Retrial rules: No sanitorium needed for Mary Todd Lincoln
- Evanston mom suing city, claims teenaged son wrongfully detained
- Off-duty Cook County prosecutor accused of biting man’s leg outside lingerie shop
- 2 dead, 2 wounded in West Pullman shooting
- Man found dead at CTA station
- Northwestern University sophomore missing after off-campus party
- Garbage crew finds body in bag
- DuPage will be first in region to allow cameras in courtroom
- Devastated Indiana National Guard unit almost home
- Drew Peterson’s lawyers battle one another
- Name, owners changed at South Side store, but food stamp fraud continued
- Grand jury possible in Tylenol killings — 30 years later
- GrubHub, other tech firms commit to adding 2,000 jobs in Chicago
- Fired coach who wrote racy sex book sues district for $1 million
- Appeals court refuses to reconsider ex-Gov. Ryan bid for early release
- Mercy Hospital to open clinic inside new CHA development
- Head tax to be axed 6 months earlier than expected, mayor says
- Radio host Don Wade suffers seizure, to be treated for growth on brain
- Tentative pact suspends CSO strike
- Chicago aims for Internet access in parks, underserved neighborhoods
- Judge, law enforcement officials listed in madam’s ‘client information’
- Police shoot man on West Side
- Weekend toll: 3 dead, 14 wounded
- Man charged with attempting to kill prosecutor who defended gay men
- More than 140 horses auctioned at ex-Dixon comptroller’s ranch
- Jackson’s D.C. home removed from public listing
- Dog attack victim’s crime scene photo circulated with CPD heading
- City plans new park in Little Village at former asphalt factory site
- 1 dead after 3 accidents shut I-290 in both directions
- Three dead, 10 wounded — including 3 women — in weekend shootings
- Two men charged with stealing $50,000 from Obama campaign
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians on strike
- Man shot in Humboldt Park area
- City plans new park in Little Village at former asphalt factory site
- Cabbies serving disabled community can vie for medallion
- Bank branch in Near West Side Jewel robbed
- Five injured in CTA bus crash
- Teen with history of depression missing from Northwest Side
- Teenager killed, man wounded in West Pullman shooting
- Rich East teacher suspended for alleged ‘inappropriate conduct’
- Riverdale police fatally shoot man who allegedly pointed gun at officers
- Ride-along: No murders, one shooting makes it a ‘good day’ in Englewood
- County pays $230k to settle lawsuit brought by ex-staffer for Peraica
- What will Chicago Public Schools calendar be next year?
- Does fixing Red Line mean extension to 130th Street more likely?
- Appeals court: State can’t force pharmacists to sell ‘morning-after pill’
- Libel suit filed against Sun-Times Media over Courier-News article
- Assessor employee suspended for getting property tax break twice
- Man pulled from Chicago River downtown dies
- Same recipe for next year’s Taste of Chicago: Shorter and remixed
- Feds: Chicago men grew $7 million worth of cannabis near Kankakee
- Feds: Crooked lawyer tripped up by text messages
- First Chicago Maid-Rite opens in Lincoln Park
- Paying for the new teacher contract
- Legalized video gambling being tested at Joliet bar
- Alderman proposes $5-a-month ‘safety and security fee’ to pay for 700 more cops
- At the end of the long trial, Christopher Vaughn jurors assemble one last time
- Mayor Emanuel takes to airwaves to tout his education plans
- Ratification vote on teachers union contract set for Oct. 2
- No bond for Hillside teen charged in bombing attempt
- State attorney general argues for law requiring parental notification when minors get abortions
- Highway department truck slams into home near Homer Glen
- City inspector general: Police evidence inadequately protected
- Smoke detectors at apartment where infant died weren’t working
- John Wayne Gacy investigation helps identify body found in Utah
- American Airlines pilots picket at O’Hare
- Libertyville man pleads guilty to stealing CME Group software
- 8-year-old girl escapes kidnapping attempt in Lawndale
- Raises, contract length were key to turning strike around
- Household income in Chicago nearly $7,000 less than national average
- New way to make extra cash: Rent out your car
- Jury takes less than hour to convict Christopher Vaughn of murder
- $50,000 in checks sent from Obama campaign stolen
- Exclusive: CTU’s Karen Lewis on Emanuel, Vitale — and Steinem
- Building collapses in extra-alarm fire in West Englewood
- Need prayer? Drive-thru service available in Aurora
- Chicago teachers, students head back to school after strike
- Jesse Jackson Jr.’s tumultuous summer
- Baby girl found dead after West Side apartment building blaze
- Cop charged with taking $5K bribe to ‘forget’ traffic stop
- State workers rally to stop layoffs, but Quinn blames union, Legislature
- Chris Vaughn’s day of reckoning finally here
- Ex-Bear Sam Hurd faces more drug charges in Texas court
- Jackson blames rising medical costs as reason behind house sale
- Joliet man gets 87 years for raping 6-year-old girl
- Emanuel focuses on contract’s benefits, not new costs
- The ‘milkman,’ dead at 64, provided dairy products to Chicago’s public schools
- Bicyclist rides down CTA station ramp, winds up on tracks
- Missing your comics? Tomorrow we will run double in expanded edition
- Teen robbers targeting female victims in Chicago Lawn
- Ex-boyfriend charged in love triangle shooting
- Woman raped in her Gold Coast apartment
- ‘Tremendous victories’: Details of the teachers contract
- Is highest ticket tax in nation now on deck for Chicago?
- Magazine: Romney suggested Iran could threaten Chicago with ‘dirty bomb’
- Romney points to 1998 Obama remarks to divert attention from flap over video
- Chicago students will make up lost days, but it’s not clear when
- Fired First Baptist pastor to plead guilty in sex scandal involving 17-year-old
- Winners and losers in teachers’ strike — Rahm Emanuel is both
- In video, Sen. Mark Kirk urges action on Ill. credit rating
- Rich Township H.S. fires counselor who authored racy book
- Coming this fall: Rapid transit buses to ‘Jump’ ahead of traffic
- Emanuel: Deal is ‘honest compromise’
- Two more cougar sightings on North Shore
- Christopher Vaughn Trial: Day 20
- Charges filed after two men crashed through Macy’s window during fight
- Joliet Diocese again removes priest from public ministry
- Plainfield family gets $1.8 million settlement from 2003 Metra derailment
- Cop arrested for allegedly taking bribe to fix traffic case
- Carnival worker charged with sexually abusing toddlers, videotaping attacks
- Jurors to get Christopher Vaughn murder case on Thursday
- Ex-state Rep. Derrick Smith leading in election poll despite indictment, expulsion
- Q & A: What’s next in teachers strike
- Man finds handicapped parking placard, uses it for a year: police
- Rev. Jesse Jackson secures release of Americans in Gambia
- Jesse Jackson Jr.’s fall opponent: ‘I’m asking him to campaign or resign’
- Parolee charged with murdering woman at luxury hotel
- Huge Burmese python found near Waukegan beach
- Rahm Emanuel gambles and loses — for now — with teacher strike injunction attempt
- He had $1 million Powerball winning ticket in his wallet for six weeks and didn’t know it
- Defense: Teen accused in bomb plot ‘immature’
- Police investigate texts, emails involving New Trier students
- Man charged in police-involved shooting that left man dead
- Judge punts on forcing teachers back; union delegates to decide on Wednesday return
- Man fatally shot in apparent love triangle
- Assessor’s office looking into improper exemptions
- Chicago terror bomber targeted my bar, co-owner of Cal’s says
- Lake Forest High School open despite strike
- Chicago teachers strike timeline
- Man fatally struck by vehicle while fleeing robbers
- Lynwood woman charged in hit-and-run crash that hurt cop
- George H.W. Bush’s former education secretary rips Chicago teachers
- Union releases details of pact that could end teachers’ strike
- Feds: Hillside teen bent on jihad plotted to blow up downtown bar
- Rev. Jackson to ask Gambian president to halt executions
- 5 dead, 23 wounded in shootings since Friday night
- ‘I’m afraid of dying;’ Violence hits home for aldermen
- Police: Man who pointed gun at cops fatally shot by officers in Roseland
- Teacher deal could lead to property tax hikes, school closings, layoffs
- What will kids get out of deal between teachers, Chicago Public Schools?
- Cook County prosecutor hospitalized after North Side attack
- Jewish school in Hyde Park tried to push out black teen, lawsuit claims
- Kids: Week of playing, watching movies at school during strike not bad
- Christopher Vaughn’s defense centers on role of wife’s medications
- Christopher Vaughn Trial: Day 19
- Cook County prosecutor hospitalized after North Side attack
- Bond denied for teen in fatal shooting of 15-year-old in Lansing
- City looking for a few good goats — for O’Hare job
- Doctors: Christopher Vaughn’s wife not suicidal, depressed before family killed
- Tensions erupt at wake for slain teen rapper Lil JoJo
- Former neighbor found guilty of 1957 murder of 7-year-old girl
- Union head: Teachers ‘tired of billionaires telling us what ... to do’
- Online system to track city response 311 calls
- Man killed in wrong-way crash on Borman expressway
- Two people shot minutes apart in Ukrainian village
- Boy, 12, shot in Back of the Yards
- Lessons Mayor Rahm Emanuel can learn from teacher strike
- Parents appreciate extended hours
- Girl, 13, falls through skylight of Northwest Side business
- Calumet City’s top lawyer’s new post means huge pension boost
- Former state trooper charged with Chicago Heights murder
- 15-year-old found dead in Lansing alley was shot in head: autopsy
- Christopher Vaughn Trial: Day 18
- Berwyn police kill 2 pit bulls after attack on woman and dog
- 43 Latin Kings targeted in two-year drug investigation
- Testimony wraps up for the day in Christopher Vaughn murder trial
- Girl, 12, missing from CPS strike site
- CPS says agreement possible Friday, union less optimistic
- Church: Priest can return after abuse accusation
- Chicago cop injured in hit-and-run
- 2 dead, 7 wounded in overnight shootings
- Sharon McGhee, WVON news director, dead of ovarian cancer at 55
- Superstar rapper 50 Cent defends Chief Keef
- Two boys, 14, shot on Southwest Side
- Chicago area Muslims react to killings in Libya, video about Muhammad
- One dead, one wounded in South Side shooting
- Derrick Rose: ‘Sad that my city got to go through’ teachers strike
- Park District awards 1st construction contract for Grant Park overhaul
- Christopher Vaughn Trial: Day 17
- City Hall explores legal options in teachers strike
- $1.1B Midway improvements promised under new ‘use agreement’
- U. of C. moves up to No. 4 on list of top colleges
- Program lets first-time, non-violent offenders clear name
- Two charged after shootout with police on North Side
- Trainer charged with sexual abuse of teen freed on bail
- CTU picketer struck by car in West Town; second hit in two days
- Witness: 1957 Sycamore murder victim, 7, suffered 3 deep stab wounds
- Charges upgraded to reckless homicide for Highland Park woman
- CTA cuts 12 bus routes, adds more L train runs and service to 48 bus routes
- Post-Lollapalooza Grant Park restoration work complete
- Chicago Public Schools students back in class by Friday?
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