Chicago
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Two shooting deaths believed to have been murder-suicide
Apr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - Police in Chicago say the shooting deaths of an Indiana woman and a Chicago man appear to have been a murder-suicide. Officer David Banks says 22-year-old Mercedes McCau...
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Prosecutors say suspect could be one of 28 men
Apr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Cook County authorities say they don't know the true identity of a man who is being held in lieu of $350,000 bond on credit card fraud charges. Prosecutors say the man h...
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'Boy in Cookie Jar' forced to moveApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Maurice Lenell Cookie Company, a family owned institution famed for its "Boy in the Cookie Jar" logo, is being forced to consider relocating to Mexico due to labor costs...
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R. Eugene Pincham dead at 82
Apr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - R. Eugene Pincham, a longtime civil rights attorney who helped win a multimillion-dollar settlement after two young boys were falsely accused of killing an 11-year-old g...
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Nuclear repeal plan a bad ideaApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - It's fitting that state Rep. JoAnn Osmond (61st District, Antioch) picked April 1st to introduce an amendment to the Public Utilities Act repealing the moratorium on new...
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Three found slain in ChicagoApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Police in Chicago are investigating what appears to be a triple-homicide on the city's South Side. Police spokeswoman Monique Bond says the bodies of two men and a woman...
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More cops on street patrolApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis says more than 200 additional officers will be on the city's streets by the end of the year. Weis says 50 officers who were on de...
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State is real villain for high sales taxesApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - During March, I heard many people throughout the Chicago area complain about the budget that the Cook County Board passed because the budget increased the county sales t...
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Rezko trial breaks just before discussion of city real estate schemeApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - The Antoin "Tony" Rezko trial ended with a cliffhanger Friday, with Stuart Levine about to recount his attempt to tape record a player in an allegedly crooked real estat...
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Taxes shouldn't be this hard to payApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Let's say you have recently purchased a new condominium unit in a large development and the county has not yet assigned individual tax parcel numbers to each unit. The e...