Chicago
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Claypool resigns as Chicago Public Schools CEO
Dec 08, 2017 12:00 am - Forrest Claypool resigned his $250,000-a-year post as chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools on Friday, three days after CPS' top internal investigator ca...
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Report: Claypool lied to cover up ethics breach
Dec 07, 2017 10:00 pm - Mayor Rahm Emanuel's schools chief "repeatedly lied" to investigators and engaged in a "full-blown cover-up" of behavior that he and the top attorney for Chicago Public ...
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Chicago police officer wounded in hand after foot pursuit
Dec 07, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities say a plainclothes Chicago police officer was shot in the hand while chasing a person who fled from a stop by police. Police say in a statemen...
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Flight from Chicago to Michigan makes emergency landing
Dec 07, 2017 6:00 am - HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) - Officials say a passenger airplane heading from Chicago made an emergency landing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula after an alarm indicated possible ...
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Chicago-area woman charged in financial exploitation case
Dec 07, 2017 6:00 am - AURORA, Ill. (AP) - A 41-year-old suburban Chicago woman has been charged with stealing money from a resident of a long-term care facility while working for a state cont...
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Another thief sentenced in heist of guns off Chicago train
Dec 07, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A federal judge has sentenced a Chicago-area man to 12ˆ½ years in prison for helping to steal around 100 new guns from a freight train stopped in the city...
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Illinois chiropractor gets 20-month prison term for fraud
Dec 07, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A suburban Chicago chiropractor has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for billing an insurance company more than $4 million for treatment that was unn...
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Protesters of Trump's Jerusalem decision march in Chicago
Dec 07, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Some 200 people protesting President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv t...
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Cubs' Epstein: Chatwood's a guy we've been after for a whileDec 07, 2017 12:01 am - Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein was mum on one subject Thursday but was chatty about another. Epstein met the media at Wrigley Field but did not want to answer quest...
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Bears new PK Nugent should be right at home Sunday in CincinnatiDec 07, 2017 12:00 am - Kicker Mike Nugent was signed on Monday to replace injured Cairo Santos (groin), but the newest Bear is more familiar than any of his teammates with Paul Brown Stadium. ...