Chicago
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Chicago businessman gets 2 years for state grant fraud
Sep 24, 2016 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A Chicago businessman has been ordered to serve two years in prison and repay more than $480,000 to the state for a fraud scheme in which two st...
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Chicago Bears' Royal proving his worthSep 24, 2016 1:00 am - Eddie Royal equaled last season's TD total when he caught a 19-yard scoring pass in the season opener and in just two games has shown that he's ready to put a disappoint...
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Injuries leave Bears defense plugging up holesSep 24, 2016 1:00 am - Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio has spent more time plugging holes this week than the little Dutch boy. The Bears will be without nose tackle Eddie Goldman (sprained an...
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'Hamilton' aims to wow Chicago theater fansSep 23, 2016 12:00 pm - It's relatively easy for the U.S. Mint to reproduce $10 bills bearing the likeness of America's first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. But it's a whole oth...
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Drake school health center among Chicago expansions
Sep 23, 2016 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced an improved health center at a Chicago public school funded in part by a city tax on e-cigarettes. Emanuel announced the ...
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Rhode Island town takes stand against power plant
Sep 23, 2016 7:00 am - BURRILLVILLE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island town has taken a largely symbolic vote to oppose plans for a gas-fired power plant in the community. The Providence Journal (htt...
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Chicago man charged with hiding camera in school bathroom
Sep 23, 2016 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago man is accused of hiding a motion-activated video camera in a bathroom at an elementary school where he worked as a music teacher and track coac...
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Severed head, other remains found in Chicago park
Sep 23, 2016 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities say a contractor has found a human head and other body parts in a city park. According to WBBM-TV (http://cbsloc.al/2ctM1Sj ), police say the ...
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Chicago police targeting fentanyl-laced heroin arrest 25
Sep 23, 2016 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police say they have arrested more than two-dozen people in connection with sales of heroin laced with the painkiller fentanyl, which is being bla...
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Money-launderer for Sinaloa cartel sentenced to 8 years
Sep 23, 2016 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A money-launderer and associate of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been sentenced to eight years in prison. U.S. District Judge Ruben Cast...