Chicago
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CTA cutting jobs
Sep 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The nation's second-largest transit system announced $40 million in belt-tightening measures Monday despite a more than 5 percent ridership surge in 2008 compared to las...
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15-year-old charged with dumping baby
Sep 07, 2008 11:00 pm - A 15-year-old Chicago girl has been charged with wrapping her newborn baby in a plastic bag and abandoning the infant in an apartment courtyard. Police said Sunday that ...
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Hinsdale man accused of swindling investors
Sep 06, 2008 11:00 pm - The Securities and Exchange Commission is accusing a Hinsdale man swindling elderly investors out of more than $1.7 million and using the money for gifts to his wife and...
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5 fatally shot in separate incidents
Sep 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago police are investigating five separate and apparently unrelated shooting deaths in the city. The killings occurred Friday afternoon, Friday night and early Satur...
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Chicago Ford plant to eliminate 600 part-time jobs
Sep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Ford Motor Company says it's cutting 600 part-time jobs at its Chicago assembly plant when it drops one of its two shifts by early November. The automaker also says an u...
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Catching up with Sky's FowlesSep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Before Thursday's Sky game against Seattle, I was chatting with Tauja Catchings, the former Stevenson and Illinois basketball star who does color analysis of Sky games o...
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O'Hare flight makes emergency landingSep 05, 2008 11:00 pm - A Boeing 747 bound for Hong Kong made an emergency landing at O'Hare International Airport Saturday because of unspecified problems with a temperature probe, officials s...
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Ravinia patron charged after fight injures oneSep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - A disagreement over seating led to a fight Saturday at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park. Anthony Delgado, 40, of the 7400 block of North Oriole Avenue in Chicago, w...
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Radar problems briefly delay O'Hare flightsSep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Radar problems at O'Hare International Airport caused delays for planes arriving late this morning. Difficulties in transmitting information between the radar system and...
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Lake Michigan drowning victim identified as Hanover Park manSep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - A 20-year-old Hanover Park man was missing for three days before his body was found in Lake Michigan. The body of Samuel Pe was identified on Aug. 23. The Cook County me...