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A key figure in the Cook County patronage hiring scandal was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in jail for an unrelated courthouse scuffle in Wheaton.
Full Story updated 2/9/2010 5:53 PM
Worried parents could breathe a sigh of relief Tuesday, as all 33 students from St. Hubert Catholic School that were stranded in Washington, D.C., have arrived safely at home.
Full Story updated 2/9/2010 5:49 PM
All five Republicans who lost the race for the suburban 8th House District are promising to support winner Joe Walsh in his bid to unseat Democratic incumbent Melissa Bean.
Full Story updated 2/9/2010 1:43 PM
The snow is pouring down on us and, instead of focusing on the bad traffic and the pain of shoveling, we want to have some fun by holding a snowman contest.
Full Story updated 2/9/2010 11:16 AM
Sometimes the best way to make people feel better is to first make them feel worse. That's certainly the best proven method to help people overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, not least of whom are veterans returning from combat zones, said Patrick McGrath, director of the Anxiety and OCD Program at Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates.
Full Story published 2/9/201 10:54 AM
A pair of Streamwood men spent the weekend behind bars in the McHenry County jail, accused of operating indoor marijuana-growing farms in two rented homes on the western side of the county.
Full Story updated 2/8/20 12:42 PM
A group of St. Hubert Catholic School students stranded for days by snow in the nation's capital have finally hit upon a plan to escape from D.C.
Full Story updated 2/8/2010 10:30 PM
As he campaigned for the Republican nomination in the suburban 8th House District, Joe Walsh's mantra was he was "a tea party conservative first and a Republican second."
Full Story published 2/8/2010 2:09 PM
"There is no sham here," insisted Thomas J. Tyrrell, defense attorney for Albert Rumlow, on trial in Rolling Meadows for the 2008 murder of his wife, Janet, in the couple's Palatine home.
Full Story updated 2/9/2010 6:54 PM
Northwestern University is switching the way it offers federal student loans starting this fall, allowing students and parents to borrow directly from the government.
Full Story published 2/9/2010 7:12 AM
A Cook County judge sentenced a Norridge man convicted of his seventh DUI to 10 years in prison Monday in Rolling Meadows' Third Municipal District.
Full Story updated 2/9/2010 6:05 AM
Ya Su Zhao, 50, of the 2900 block of South Wallace Avenue, Chicago, was arrested about 6:30 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Extended Stay Hotel, 1525 Busch Parkway, and charged with prostitution.
Full Story published 2/9/2010 12:01 AM
Laying off two employees and not filling four vacant positions will get the City of Rolling Meadows half way toward dealing with the loss of $600,000 in annual taxes that Sam's Club produced.
Full Story published 2/9/2010 12:00 AM
Albert and Janet Rumlow were everything to each other. Best friends. Husband and wife. Parents. Partners. That's how Albert Rumlow's defense attorney Thomas J. Tyrrell described the Palatine couple's relationship.
Full Story published 2/9/2010 12:00 AM
For the first time in more than 10 years, Wheeling will increase fees at the village's Metra parking lot.
Full Story published 2/9/2010 12:00 AM
The road to Palatine's new Quentin Road fire station hit a small bump after the schematic design's cost estimate came in higher than the project's $3 million budget.
Full Story published 2/9/2010 12:00 AM
Hoffman Estates Mayor William McLeod and other suburban leaders are calling for local taxing bodies to rally together in an attempt to motivate Cook County officials to send out property tax bills on time.
Full Story published 2/9/2010 12:00 AM
A Hanover Park man received a 20-year prison sentence Monday after pleading guilty in Rolling Meadows' Third Municipal District to a series of 2008 home invasions and robberies.
Full Story updated 2/8/2010 5:37 PM
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