For the fallen Cmdr. Bauer, Chicago prepares for a somber ritual — the police...
It is an image that has not been seen for many years in Chicago: a cortege ushering the body of a fallen police officer through the city’s streets, as thousands of fellow officers and mourners look...
View ArticleSlain Cmdr. Paul Bauer’s family and friends remember him as steady force who...
On Sunday, Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer and his family took their usual seats in the front pew at a West Loop chapel, where police officers gather twice a month to pray for fallen comrades and to...
View ArticleXanax and opioids prove lethal mix as deaths soar: 'It’s a prescription drug,...
Nick was a high school junior already well-acquainted with mind-altering substances when a friend introduced him to Xanax. He was immediately smitten. The prescription anti-anxiety medication affected...
View ArticleMadigan ally ousted after harassment complaint accused of violating...
The political operative booted from his job with House Speaker Michael Madigan’s Democratic organization over inappropriate texting to a female campaign worker was arrested Thursday on a charge of...
View ArticleLINDA C. BLACK HOROSCOPES for 2/16/18
Today's Birthday (02/16/18). Your influence and professional stature blossom this year. Methodically plan and strategize. Prepare to provide a powerful personal performance this spring. Physical...
View ArticleFor the Republicans, Bruce Rauner
Five months after taking office — it was June 25, 2015 — Gov. Bruce Rauner confronted House Speaker Michael Madigan. Rauner vetoed most of the state budget Madigan & Co. had sent him. It was an...
View ArticleWhen echoes of bagpipes fade after another police funeral, cops know they are...
When an exemplary police officer like Cmdr. Paul Bauer is buried, Chicago binds itself in a liturgy of grief. Pageantry comes with it, from the bagpipes echoing in the gangways of the two-flats near...
View ArticleNo charges for Providence president who refused to turn in phone to cops, New...
A New Lenox police investigation into allegations that the president of Providence Catholic High School had "potentially inappropriate material" on his cell phone has closed without criminal charges...
View ArticleWhite nationalist appears to disavow connection with Florida school shooting...
A white nationalist appears to have lied to The Associated Press and other news organizations when he claimed that Florida school-shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz was a member of his obscure group. Law...
View ArticleSpeaker Madigan: 'I take responsibility' for not doing enough on sexual...
Amid rising frustration within his party, Speaker Michael Madigan on Friday said he shoulders “responsibility” for failing to do more to ensure equality in the statehouse and on the campaign trail....
View ArticleAnthony Rizzo makes Joe Maddon and Jason Heyward proud
Jason Heyward initially didn’t realize Anthony Rizzo left spring training suddenly to help his Parkland, Fla., community heal from a mass shooting Wednesday. But Heyward and manager Joe Maddon were...
View ArticleFBI admits it failed to investigate specific tip on Florida shooting suspect
The FBI received a tip last month that the suspect in the Florida school shooting had a "desire to kill" and access to guns and could be plotting an attack, but agents failed to investigate, the...
View ArticleNew White House security clearance policy could put ‘bull’s eye’ on Kushner
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly announced Friday that beginning next week, the White House will no longer allow some employees with interim security clearances access to top-secret information -...
View ArticleBulls hope Rising Stars Challenge is taste of what's to come
The day after Lauri Markkanen almost made coach Fred Hoiberg pass out, the unflappable Bulls rookie acted as if nothing happened. “He had a good spirit about him,” Kris Dunn recalled. “He didn’t brag...
View ArticleNo medal for Lindsey Vonn in Olympic super-G; Czech Republic's Ester Ledecka...
Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic made a stunning run from back in the pack to take the Olympic super-G title on Saturday, with a mistake costing Lindsey Vonn a spot on the podium. Ledecka, the 26th...
View ArticleAs free agency nears, Bears must make call on some previous buys
The Bears are nearly six weeks removed from hiring coach Matt Nagy and the calendar is moving quickly for them to put into place plans for the rebuild of the rebuild. The NFL scouting combine begins...
View ArticleNathan Chen dazzles after poor short program, finishes 5th overall; Yuzuru...
Nathan Chen finally admitted the pressure of being the face of American figure skating got to him, winding him up so tight for his short program that it ended in what he described as a "disaster." All...
View ArticleTrump, first lady meet school attack victims during visit to Florida hospital
President Donald Trump came face-to-face Friday with hospitalized victims of the horrific school shooting in Florida and offered thanks to the doctors and nurses who helped the wounded, declaring "the...
View ArticleFlorida school shooting survivors become advocates for stronger weapons laws
Dead bodies were still inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when survivors of this week's shooting began speaking out about gun violence. It seemed as if the teens had stepped straight from the...
View ArticleAnger bubbles over at funerals for Florida shooting victims: 'Our kids should...
As families began burying their dead, authorities questioned whether they could have prevented the attack on a South Florida high school where a gunman took the lives of 14 students, the athletic...
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