1 Berrios challenger could be off ballot, leaving a one-on-one race for Cook...
An election official on Monday recommended that one of two Democratic candidates vying to unseat Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios be removed from the March primary ballot, possibly leaving him with...
View ArticleFrigid Super Bowl raises questions about northern venues
After years of planning and many millions in spending, there was one thing organizers of Super Bowl 52 couldn't control — a Minnesota winter. The Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots played...
View Article11-year prison sentence for man who struck, killed motorcyclist in I-55 DUI...
A Chicago man who nearly three years ago crashed his car into a motorcycle on Interstate 55, killing its rider, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday. Fawzi Ottman, 46, was under the influence...
View ArticleFather charged with murder in 5-month-old girl's death
A Grand Crossing neighborhood man hit and shook his 5-month-old daughter, killing her, when he was supposed to be caring for her while her mother was at work, prosecutors said Monday. Dangelo Jackson,...
View ArticleIn the primary, don't accidentally vote for the neo-Nazi
Arthur Jones slithered out of his hole in the ground in Lyons to run for the United States Congress in a Republican primary election, and nobody stepped up to challenge him. Jones — a Holocaust...
View ArticleThink Jemele Hill leaving ESPN's 'SportsCenter' silences her? Think again
Critics who think Jemele Hill’s move from ESPN’s “SportsCenter” to its website, The Undefeated, will mute her opinions are in for a surprise. If anything, it liberates Hill from the constraints placed...
View ArticleFans call for head of Cris Collinsworth over 'bias' play-by-play
One of the most perplexing parts about Sunday’s Super Bowl game was the play-by-play by NBC analyst Chris Collinsworth. Over and over, fans marveled over what many perceived as his “bias” for the...
View ArticleMan awaits sentence for severely beating wife, shooting revolver in St. Charles
A 66-year-old man could get between four and 15 years in prison, or probation, for severely beating his wife and shooting a revolver five times in the St. Charles subdivision where they lived in May...
View ArticleDemocrats lash out at consumer watchdog amid reports it is dropping Equifax...
Democratic lawmakers lashed out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday amid a report that the agency was backing off an investigation into a massive data breach at Equifax last year...
View ArticleEagles' call on fourth-and-goal wasn't 'gutsy'— it just came down to basic math
Cris Collinsworth is probably still talking about “one of the gutsiest calls” in football history. Al Michaels might still be parroting him. But the fact is Eagles coach Doug Pederson made the proper,...
View ArticleNew bipartisan immigration plan surfaces in the Senate and Trump labels it 'a...
Talks to resolve the legal status of young undocumented immigrants and enact new border security measures remain stalled in the closely-divided Senate on Monday as a new bipartisan proposal to resolve...
View ArticleStock market roller coaster: Dow sinks 1,175 points on volatile day
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 1,175 points Monday in an exceptionally volatile day for financial markets around the world, stirring concerns about the durability of the long-running stock...
View ArticleHouse panel votes to release Democratic memo on Russia probe, setting up...
The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously Monday to release a Democratic rebuttal to GOP accusations that the FBI misled a secret surveillance court. President Donald Trump now has five days...
View ArticleScientists discover the first planets outside the Milky Way
The truth is out there. And past that is a cluster of planets 3.8 billion light-years away, a recent discovery that if confirmed could extend the boundary of what we know about the universe. Using...
View ArticleNew Pritzker-Blagojevich audio from FBI wiretaps sheds light on race issue in...
On a dark, bitterly cold Sunday afternoon a week before Christmas, an under-the-weather U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush delivered a blistering, half-hour sermon in a historic Bronzeville church on why voters...
View ArticleJohn Mahoney, Steppenwolf and 'Frasier' actor who walked away from Hollywood,...
Millions of people thought they knew the actor John Mahoney from his work in the NBC sitcom “Frasier” — for 11 hit seasons from 1993 through 2004, he played a cranky Seattle police officer who’d taken...
View ArticleWhy the stock market is selling off
The stock market is having a panic attack. The Dow is down almost 1,800 points (7 percent) in two days. CNBC has already dubbed it "selling hell." So what is going on? And how much should you worry?...
View ArticleTrump, Republicans discover the perils of touting the stock market
President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have spent much of the past year trying to connect a giddy stock market rally with their economic agenda, but its precipitous plunge in the past...
View ArticleColorado sheriff's deputy killed; 3rd to die in 5 weeks in the state
A Colorado sheriff's deputy was shot and killed on Monday, the third officer to be gunned down in the line of duty in the state in the past five weeks. El Paso County Deputy Micah Flick, 34, was...
View ArticleFleeing to safety, 15 Syrians froze to death on a mountain. A girl was found...
The mountain range that forms a natural boundary between Syria and Lebanon has long served also as a wartime conduit for people who cannot travel legally - the gunrunners, the rebels, the dissidents...
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