Chicago
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Tribune won't sell iconic tower
Feb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Tribune Co. is giving up on plans to sell its iconic headquarters on Chicago's Magnificent Mile. Tribune real estate director Stephanie Pater tells Crain's Chicago Busin...
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Feds bust alleged fake ID ring in Chinatown
Feb 24, 2009 10:00 pm - FBI agents and police are rounding up alleged members of a fake ID ring that prosecutors say operated out of Chicago's Chinatown area for five years. Charges against 19 ...
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Chicago's top cop defies judges in abuse suit
Feb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - Chicago's top police official is defying orders from two federal judges to turn over lists of officers who have repeated complaints filed against them by the public, say...
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Arrest made in South Side triple homicide
Feb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - Police in Chicago have arrested a suspect in last week's shooting deaths of three teenagers. Police spokesman Officer Daniel O'Brien says the man was taken into custody,...
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Former jail inmates win strip search lawsuit
Feb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - A federal judge has ruled that several thousand former Cook County Jail inmates had their rights violated when they were strip-searched in humiliating conditions. Attorn...
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Continuing loan talks boost General GrowthFeb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - General Growth Properties Inc., the U.S. mall owner that has lost 99 percent of its market value, rose after announcing that lenders have not asked for full repayment of...
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Lawsuit filed over Caterpillar oil spill
Feb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - JOLIET -- State and county authorities filed a lawsuit Monday against Caterpillar Inc. after thousands of gallons of oil overflowed from company waste treatment tanks ea...
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Chicago police end investigation into impostor
Feb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - Police say an internal department investigation on how a 14-year-old boy allegedly was able to impersonate a Chicago officer is complete. But police spokeswoman Antoinet...
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Court rejects appeal from former Daley aides
Feb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's former patronage chief and two other former city officials have failed to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to consider setting aside their c...
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2 cars on Chicago-bound Amtrak train derail
Feb 23, 2009 10:00 pm - HAMMOND, Ind. -- Two cars on an Amtrak train headed to Chicago have derailed in northwestern Indiana. No passengers or crew were in the last two cars, so no one was hurt...