West Virginia leaders reach deal to end teachers strike
West Virginia lawmakers acted swiftly Tuesday after Gov. Jim Justice and Republican leaders tentatively agreed to end the state's nine-day teachers' walkout by giving 5 percent raises not just to...
View ArticleEmanuel administration sues top drug distributors over opioid crisis
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration has filed a lawsuit against the nation’s three largest opioid distributors, alleging they unlawfully circulated the addictive narcotics in Chicago. The lawsuit,...
View ArticleSkokie Subway restaurant badly damaged following kitchen fire
A Subway restaurant in Skokie was badly damaged Tuesday but no injuries were reported after the kitchen caught on fire, officials said. Skokie Fire Department officials said they were called around...
View ArticleSingle mom of 6-year-old killed in early morning head-on crash in Berwyn,...
A 25-year-old single mother of a 6-year-old boy was killed in a head-on crash while driving to work early Tuesday in Berwyn, police said. Berwyn police Chief Michael Cimaglia said the woman was...
View ArticleDuPage County's largest sports/entertainment/expo facility to be built in...
DuPage County's largest multiuse, indoor ice, sports, entertainment and expo facility is to be built in Naperville . Calamos Real Estate of Naperville announced Tuesday it has acquired 25 acres of...
View ArticleConman poses as bank exec to pull off fraud — while awaiting sentencing in...
After a failed attempt to flee to South America to avoid federal prison, a Florida financier was sentenced in Chicago on Tuesday to 25 years in prison for a spectacular $179 million real estate...
View ArticlePolice: Two arrested in brawl following Oak Forest Fleadh
Two people were arrested after several brawls broke out outside the Blarney Stone Pub on Saturday following the Oak Forest Fleadh, police said. Oak Forest police said two people, including the pub...
View ArticleWatchdog: Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway violated Hatch Act
A federal watchdog says White House counselor Kellyanne Conway violated the federal law prohibiting government officials from using their positions to influence political campaigns. The Office of...
View ArticleDemolition of Lakeview buildings to begin this week for CTA 'flyover' project
The CTA this week will start knocking down buildings in the Lakeview neighborhood to make way for the “flyover,” an elevated bypass the transit agency has touted as a way to unclog the bottleneck of...
View ArticleDaniel Biss appearing onstage with Pussy Riot tonight
They’ve become an international symbol of resistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now the punk rock activist group Pussy Riot is throwing its weight behind a more parochial concern — electing...
View Article'A Wrinkle in Time' review: Disney's space odyssey leads to Oprah and beyond
“You’re given the form,” one of the celestial mentors says in Madeleine L’Engle's “A Wrinkle in Time.” “But you have to write the sonnet yourself.” This is how L’Engle described a free-will sort of...
View ArticleRockford-area professor — expert on presidential pardons — emailed life's...
Peter S. Ruckman, a nationally known authority on presidential pardons, emailed a massive data set containing his life’s work to a reporter, a law professor and others several days before police found...
View ArticleHouse hunters, be wary: 7 seemingly small flaws may point to a money pit
When Annemarie Kill and her husband, John Duffy, bought their first house in Chicago’s Galewood neighborhood in 2003, the duo knew it needed some cosmetic work — in fact, they were excited to redo the...
View ArticleMoran: Great Wolf Lodge banking on 'brand recognition' - and a bigger...
When Great Wolf Resorts announced in January that it was accepting reservations for a July 1 grand opening of its Key Lime Cove reclamation project in Gurnee, a question was posed: How will Great Wolf...
View ArticleStriking U. of I. grad student workers stage sit-in at president's office
In a sign of escalating tensions surrounding a strike at the University of Illinois, members of the graduate student workers union in Urbana have camped outside the university president’s office and...
View ArticleThe outrageously important assessor's race
On my kitchen table are more than a dozen recent Democratic mailings urging me to vote for the “middle class” and at least six mailers promoting one party-backed candidate in order to resist “tax...
View ArticleAfter Trump's top economic advisor resigns, Wall Street prepares for...
The resignation of President Donald Trump's National Economic Council head Gary Cohn Tuesday sent Wall Street traders rushing to hit the "sell" button as fears of a trade war escalated. The market was...
View Article83-year-old drives through front window of Wilmette Panera, police say
An 83-year-old Wilmette resident was ticketed Tuesday after police said she drove her auto through the front window of Panera Bread. The crash at the restaurant, 1199 Wilmette Ave., sent the driver...
View ArticleU.S. Steel to restart Illinois plant after tariff announcement
U.S. Steel Corp. says it will restart one of two blast furnaces along with steel-making facilities in Illinois after President Donald Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on steel imports. The...
View ArticlePussy Riot gig makes for off-beat Biss campaign rally
Investigators looking for evidence of Russian interference in U.S. elections needn’t have looked any further on Tuesday night than Chicago’s Wicker Park, where punk rock activists Pussy Riot appeared...
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