Chicago Cops Punished For Posed Photo With Cuffed G-20 Summit Suspect
CHICAGO — A Chicago police spokesman says two high-ranking officers have been reprimanded after a video surfaced that showed officers posing wit...
CHICAGO — A Chicago police spokesman says two high-ranking officers have been reprimanded after a video surfaced that showed officers posing wit...
AP | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago
Nebraska and 37 other states are supporting a challenge to Chicago's ban on handguns....
Chicago Tribune | John Chase | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago
As Christopher Kelly was being treated for a fatal overdose, the political fundraiser who was being pressured to testify against ex- Gov. Rod Blagojev...
Charles Madigan | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago
It sounds arrogant--"I'm going to find a new way to write about politics" -- but that was my objective with Destiny Calling: How the People Elected Barack Obama. A new kind of history was being written.
Edward Lifson | Posted 11.21.2009 | Chicago
This week, powers that be in Chicago will demolish a little work by Mies van der Rohe. A small part of his extraordinarily important campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology will bite the dust.
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago
Did Gov. Pat Quinn fall asleep during Wednesday afternoon's gubernatorial debate? A video released by a rival campaign makes it appear that he did. "...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago
I'm less scared of the possibility of an armed Islamic radical coming into my life than I am about the everyday bigots.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.19.2009 | Chicago
UPDATE: The FAA computer glitch has been resolved, though problems continue to ripple across the country from the nearly five hour computer outage. Ge...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley lit into a reporter Wednesday for asking whether the death of his longtime friend Michael Scott will affect the mayor's political career. ...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) moved to distance himself Tuesday from remarks he made to a local TV station in which he referred to Islam as a "savage rel...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
The Cook County Medical Examiner said today that there was "no evidence" the death of Chicago school board president trusted Daley ally Michael Scott ...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk may or may not accept an endorsement from conservative talk show host Glenn Beck -- he won't say either way. After wo...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
A Pittsburgh man in town to watch the Steelers play in September says he had to be rushed to the hospital on the verge of death after accepting a drin...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Long before the FBI identified him as a suspected communist and spent decades watching him and talking to confidential informants abou...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
A plan to transfer prisoners currently held at Guantanamo Bay to a nearly deserted Illinois jail is sharply dividing the state's politicians, with Dem...
Emily F. Shaw | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
The Fighting Illini don't have much fight on the gridiron this year. But the University administration has more than enough fight to allow a strike of its TAs to begin.
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago
THOMSON, Ill. — Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than...
AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.17.2009 | Chicago
(AP) CHICAGO — Chicago's school board president apparently shot himself in the head near the Chicago River before dawn Monday, officials said as...
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago
A conservative watchdog group is suing Mayor Daley and the city for failing to turn over information about the Obama administration's involvement in C...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago
On the same day Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was charged with 13 counts of murder in the killing of a dozen of his fellow soldiers, one of the victims ...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago
Not only is the housing crisis far from over, in Illinois it may be getting worse. Foreclosure filings jumped 56 percent in October, resulting in the...
Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago
It's last call at two fine dining landmarks in downtown Chicago, the 90-year-old Don Roth's Blackhawk and the 32-year-old Nick's Fishmarket.
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago
WHEATON, Ill. — A suburban Chicago jury said Wednesday that a convicted murderer should be executed for the rape and killing of a 10-year-old gi...
Mark Konkol and Todd Fooks | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago
Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker gives the scoop on Oprah's diabolical plan to sell out Chicago and cuddle with celebrities and skinny people in California.
AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago
LONDON — A United Airlines pilot who was pulled from his trans-Atlantic flight to Chicago shortly before takeoff has been charged with having to...
AP | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago