Chicago
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Chicago Blackhawks set roster for upcoming prospect campJul 11, 2017 7:47 am - The Blackhawks have invited 45 players - including 33 team draft picks - to next week's Prospect Camp. The roster features eight of Chicago's 2017 NHL Draft choices: Hen...
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Bid for Sun-Times by ex-politician, labor unions advances
Jul 11, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - An investor group headed by a former Chicago city council member that includes labor unions says it has secured enough money to buy and operate the Chicag...
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Monument to commemorate deaths of poor, unidentified people
Jul 11, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Religious and Cook County officials will unveil a black granite monument to mark the gravesites of poor, unidentified and unborn people during a service a...
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Immigrant sues Chicago police alleging gang database error
Jul 11, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Mexican immigrant ordered to leave the U.S. this month filed a lawsuit against Chicago police Tuesday, alleging he was wrongly listed in a gang database...
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Chicago woman gets probation for dropping baby to her death
Jul 11, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago woman who threw her newborn from a window because she feared her Muslim parents from Pakistan wouldn't approve of her pregnancy has been sentenc...
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Drug convictions tossed due to Chicago cop's corruption
Jul 11, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Two men with drug convictions have had their verdicts vacated because of a former Chicago police officer's corruption. Former Sgt. Ronald Watts was known ...
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APNewsBreak: Priest who abused child still working with kids
Jul 11, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The Claretians Roman Catholic order has settled a lawsuit from a man sexually abused as a 6-year-old by a teenager who later became a prominent priest in ...
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Man gets 55-year prison sentence for murder of his mother
Jul 11, 2017 7:00 am - WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - A 55-year prison sentence has been handed a suburban Chicago man convicted in the 2013 shooting death of his mother. DuPage County Circuit Judge Dan...
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The Latest: Lawsuit challenges Chicago police gang database
Jul 11, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The Latest on a federal lawsuit involving the Chicago Police Department's gang database (all times local): 2:15 p.m. A Mexican immigrant brought to the U....
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Chicago police investigate free heroin sample distribution
Jul 11, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Police say "free samples" of tainted heroin may have resulted in the hospitalization of at least eight people in Chicago over the weekend due to overdoses...