Chicago
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Experimental Alzheimer's drug shows early promise
Jul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - For the first time, an experimental drug shows promise for halting the progression of Alzheimer's disease by taking a very new approach: breaking up the protein tangles ...
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Chicago man guilty of dealing crack in Iowa
Jul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- A Chicago man could face life in prison after being convicted of distributing and possessing crack cocaine in Sioux City, Iowa. U.S. Attorney Matt Du...
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O'Hare's Number ... 2!
Jul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - GENEVA -- An airport industry association says Atlanta's Hartsfield International has topped its list of the world's busiest airports followed by Chicago's O'Hare and Lo...
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Insanity plea leads to acquittal in attempted mall kidnappingJul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - When Arthur C. Robinzine walked into a home in Carpentersville last December that wasn't his, he displayed the first signs of a mental disorder that would lead to arrest...
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Columnist Novak diagnosed with brain tumor
Jul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - BOSTON -- Conservative political commentator Robert Novak announced Monday he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor, less than a week after he struck a pedestrian with h...
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Obama visits doctor to treat sore hip
Jul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Barack Obama, back in his home town after a tour of Afghanistan, the Middle East and Europe, saw a doctor at the University of Chicago Medical Center on Sunday night to ...
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Cops search home of slain Addison girl's father
Jul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago police investigating the stabbing death of 9-year-old Mya Lyons say they searched her father's South Side home over the weekend. The search early Sunday came jus...
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Two found shot on West Side
Jul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago police say two men have been found shot -- one fatally -- in a car on the city's West Side. Officer Daniel O'Brien of the Police News Affairs office said the sho...
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Four injured when car crashes into Starbucks
Jul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Four people were hospitalized after a car crashed into a Starbucks coffee shop on Chicago's North Side. Both the 56-year-old driver and her 24-year-old passenger were hu...
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Daley predicts hard times for city
Jul 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is predicting tough financial times for the city in the coming year. And while talking Saturday with reporters, Daley pointedly declined t...