Chicago
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Blagojevich says Cubs should stay at Wrigley forever
Mar 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Well-known Chicago Cubs fan Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Thursday he'll do all he can to keep the team playing at Wrigley Field as billionaire owner Sam Zell looks to sell ...
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City responds to spike in student deaths
Mar 25, 2008 11:00 pm - The teenagers looked like any other students making their way to school after spring break. They greeted each other with bleary eyes, shoved their hands into oversized j...
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Chicago man charged for allegedly setting girlfriend ablaze
Mar 25, 2008 11:00 pm - A 21-year-old Chicago man has been charged after allegedly dousing his girlfriend with lighter fluid and setting her on fire. The girlfriend had extensive burns on her f...
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Chicago students get escort to class
Mar 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Police and community leaders have escorted a half-dozen high school students to class following the shooting death of a classmate. Officials said Operation Safe Passage...
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Four stabbed, one fatally, in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood
Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago police said a 17-year-old youth was killed and three other people, including a 14-year-old, were wounded in a possibly gang-related stabbing incident in the Nort...
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Elderly Chicago woman shot as she stands in her living room
Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago police say a 70-year-old woman was shot to death as she stood in her living room on Chicago's South Side. Police say Maggie Browder was hit at about 6:15 a.m. by...
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ABLA students get escort to Crane H.S. because of retaliation fears
Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago Public Schools students are back from spring break, including a handful who were escorted to their high school by police. Students from the ABLA Homes public hou...
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Controversy addressed during Easter services at Obama's church
Mar 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Members of Barack Obama's South Side church are fighting back. Inflammatory comments from their former pastor have recently blasted across the Internet, often via YouTub...
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Man charged after gun in oven goes off, injuring 2
Mar 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Chicago police say two children were injured when a loaded handgun hidden inside an oven discharged when the stove was heated for cooking. Twenty-four-year-old Anthony S...
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Police arrest Iraq protesters during Easter Mass at Holy Name
Mar 22, 2008 11:00 pm - Six protesters interrupted Cardinal Francis George's Easter homily on Sunday at Holy Name Cathedral, standing and yelling their opposition to the war in Iraq to a packed...