Obama campaign advisers say they used Facebook data properly
President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign mined supporters' personal data from Facebook to benefit its voter turnout program. But former campaign officials said Wednesday they accessed and...
View ArticleChicago's best fried foods: chicken, shrimp, fries and more
The Tribune's Food & Dining team is on the hunt for Chicago's best fried food. Why? Why not, we ask. From shatteringly crisp chicken (everyone's favorite) to crunchy, plump curlicues of shrimp,...
View ArticleElmhurst police increase patrols near York High School after shooting threat...
Additional police will be on patrol around York High School in Elmhurst for the next few days in response to a report of a threat that there would be a shooting at the school on Friday. According to a...
View Article2 fatal shootings in 2 hours, 2 miles apart on West Side: 'It's like normal...
Jonathan Jackson had just gotten into a silver van with his girlfriend and family and was closing the door when a blue sedan pulled up on the Lawndale block Wednesday night. A gunman in a ski mask got...
View ArticleRed and processed meats linked to liver damage, study says
Bacon lovers, a new study has some bad news for you: Eating a lot of processed and red meats may up your odds for a serious liver condition and insulin resistance, a precursor to Type 2 diabetes. The...
View ArticleAmid calls for answers, Elgin authorities to share video of police shooting...
As community members continue to seek answers about the fatal shooting of a woman by an officer during a traffic stop, Elgin police said Wednesday night they will release video of the incident to the...
View ArticleYouTube bans firearm sales and how-to videos, prompting backlash
YouTube, a popular media site for firearms enthusiasts, this week quietly introduced tighter restrictions on videos involving weapons, becoming the latest battleground in the U.S. gun-control debate....
View ArticleAt Mars Cheese Castle in Kenosha, third-generation royalty is breaking the mold
The sand-colored building, with its battlements, grassy moat and turret, stands at attention a few miles north of the Illinois state line on Interstate 94, but it might as well be the border. Because...
View ArticleSnoopy battles the Red Baron again in new museum exhibit
It might be easy, from the perspective of someone who didn’t grow up reading “Peanuts,” to dismiss Charles M. Schulz’s magnificent daily meditation on the temporary triumphs and the minor, often...
View ArticleChicago area loses population for 3rd straight year
The Chicago area has lost residents for a third consecutive year while the country’s Southern and Western areas saw population gains. An estimated 13,286 residents left the Chicago metropolitan area —...
View ArticleHere's what Congress is stuffing into its $1.3 trillion spending bill
Congressional negotiators reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night on a $1.3 trillion federal spending bill, releasing it to the public just 52 hours before a government shutdown deadline. The...
View ArticleElgin City Council gives initial nod to lifting 45-year ice cream truck ban
A 45-year ban on allowing ice cream trucks to operate in Elgin is set to be lifted. On Wednesday night and by a unanimous vote, the City Council gave preliminary approval to amending the municipal...
View ArticleMan charged with sexually assaulting woman at Cicero stop on CTA Blue Line
A West Side man has been charged with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman on the ramp of the Cicero Blue Line stop in Lawndale late last year, according to Chicago police. Jesse Winford, 29, was...
View ArticleTech incubator could be coming to Naperville
Naperville entrepreneurs may shape the next generation of technology in the world. Plans are in the works to transform a 200,000-square-foot section of the Nokia campus in the Interstate 88 corridor...
View ArticleDeveloper seeks tax incentive for North Chicago hotel/theater proposal that...
A private developer looking to build a hotel, movie theater and shopping complex around a Navy-themed museum in North Chicago might not have to pay any property taxes for more than a decade under a...
View ArticleCPS students headed to Puerto Rico for spring break: 'Personally, I’d much...
If you read this column with any regularity, you know I have a soft spot for stories about young people on a mission. I’m inspired, and a little amazed, at the kids who look around at the world...
View ArticleBelleville West's EJ Liddell is Mr. Basketball of Illinois; Rock Island's...
Juniors EJ Liddell of Belleville West and Brea Beal of Rock Island earned the state’s most prestigious prep hoops individual honors Thursday, when they were named Mr. and Ms. Basketball of Illinois....
View ArticleOswego approves incentives for new craft brewery
Oswego trustees have awarded a new kind of incentive package for a craft brewery set to open this spring in the village. Three investors have plans to open the Oswego Brewing Company in the lower...
View ArticleJohn Dowd, lead Trump lawyer in Russia probe, leaves the legal team
President Donald Trump's lead lawyer in the special counsel's Russia investigation has resigned amid a shake-up of the president's legal team. Attorney John Dowd confirmed his decision in an email...
View ArticleContractors that want city work would need to have sexual harassment policies...
Contractors that want to qualify to do work with the city of Chicago would need to have sexual harassment policies under a proposal aldermen advanced Thursday. At a time when sexual harassment in...
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