Chicago
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Sister Jean bobblehead sets sales record
Mar 26, 2018 1:00 am - To the surprise of no one who has paid even casual attention to the NCAA tournament, a bobblehead of Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt became the best seller in the history of...
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Kim Foxx sues Facebook, Lisa Madigan sends letter to Zuckerberg
Mar 25, 2018 11:00 pm - Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx filed a lawsuit Monday against Facebook that paints the world's foremost social media company as the farmer who failed to protect t...
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146,000 Chicago adults identify as LGBT: city study
Mar 25, 2018 11:00 pm - Chicago is home to 146,000 adults who identify as LGBT, according to a new report from the city's health department. In what it describes as "the first-ever population e...
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Chicago-area dad charged after allegedly threatening school
Mar 25, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities have charged a suburban Chicago father for allegedly writing on Facebook that his brother could go to an elementary school with an AR-15 rifle...
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Kansas edges Duke in overtime thriller for last Final Four spot, joins Villanova, Loyola-Chicago, Michigan in NCAA semis
Mar 25, 2018 7:00 am - SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Kansas edges Duke in overtime thriller for last Final Four spot, joins Villanova, Loyola-Chicago, Michigan in NCAA semis. ...
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Officer indicted for smuggling contraband into jail
Mar 25, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A federal correctional officer has been indicted for accepting bribes and smuggling contraband into a downtown Chicago jail. The U.S. Department of Justic...
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Victory T-shirts snapped up at Loyola college bookstoreMar 25, 2018 1:00 am - The Lakeshore Campus bookstore at Loyola University was crawling Sunday with basketball fans eager to grab up celebratory apparel after the team made the Final Four with...
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Loyola fans celebrate Final Four team's return to ChicagoMar 25, 2018 1:00 am - Loyola's men's basketball team returned home Sunday to a conqueror's welcome from championship-hungry fans packing Joseph J. Gentile Arena at the university's Rogers Par...
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Gary-Chicago airport to finance $1.3M corporate hangar
Mar 24, 2018 7:00 am - GARY, Ind. (AP) - The board overseeing the Gary-Chicago International Airport has approved building a corporate hanger as part of the field's master plan. The Airport Au...
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Man wearing body armor with loaded gun arrested in Chicago
Mar 24, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A man with a loaded handgun, wearing a bullet proof vest and carrying a bag of SWAT equipment authorities believe was stolen from New York City police has...