The sound of fear: Movie music for a scarifying Halloween
Second year of college, I shared a mouse-ridden rental house way, way off campus with a rotating cast of drama department undergraduates interested in film music and, I suppose, in getting freaked out...
View Article$60 million loan is Sears' 3rd time tapping CEO's pockets this month
Sears Holdings has borrowed millions of dollars from affiliates of its CEO for the third time this month. The struggling Hoffman Estates-based retailer disclosed a $60 million loan in a regulatory...
View ArticleOfficers take stand in murder trial of Thomas Snow, describe 'erratic' arrest...
A police officer said Thomas Snow was acting strangely when Snow was arrested Oct. 19, 2013, along a Minnesota highway. "What stood out to me was just this wild look on his face," said Thomas Taylor,...
View ArticlePolice: Charges filed following accidental shooting of 16-year-old girl
A man is accused of destroying evidence after an accidental shooting left a 16-year-old girl dead Sunday night on the South Side. Joshua Baker, 19, was charged with obstruction of justice for...
View ArticlePolice discover swastikas spray painted on Mokena village signs
Swastikas spray painted on four traffic signs and one business sign in downtown Mokena were discovered by police Oct. 22, according to officials. Police believe the vandalism involved one or more...
View ArticleMueller will get to the facts
Dawn broke Monday in Washington with news reports anticipating special counsel Robert Mueller’s first indictments in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. The...
View ArticleDispatch from the Twitter trenches
My first big Twitter spat began shortly after 7 a.m. Friday morning when I came across a tweet posted by @bougeoisalien: That tweet read: “If Americans can be so easily manipulated by a (Facebook)...
View ArticleBulls will work to find ways to get rookie Lauri Markkanen more shots
Two days after Lauri Markkanen took a season-low seven shots, Fred Hoiberg fielded several questions about how to increase that number. After one, the Bulls coach cracked wise about whether he has...
View ArticleEx-Chicago cop again takes stand, denies he beat murder suspects years ago
In his second appearance on the witness stand in two weeks, embattled former Chicago police Detective Reynaldo Guevara continued to claim Monday that he didn’t remember anything substantial about a...
View ArticleBears linebacker Jerrell Freeman's lost season takes disturbing turn
The Bears looked ahead Monday to their upcoming open date, as they regrouped from the jarring loss of tight end Zach Miller to a dislocated left knee, an extraordinarily serious injury. Here are two...
View Article7 big questions about the Russia probe from Trump aide George Papadopoulos's...
For the first time, we have a figure from the 2016 Trump campaign who we know is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller in his Russia investigation. George Papadopoulos is talking after being...
View ArticleFirst guilty plea, indictment of Trump aides in Russia investigation
In a black Monday for Donald Trump's White House, the special counsel investigating possible coordination between the Kremlin and the Trump presidential campaign announced the first charges, indicting...
View ArticleUpstairs at home, with the TV on, Trump fumes over Russia indictments
President Donald Trump woke before dawn on Monday and burrowed in at the White House residence to wait for the Russia bombshell he knew was coming. Separated from most of his West Wing staff — who...
View ArticlePolice: Body found in Chicago lagoon might be missing Elgin woman
An autopsy has been performed and DNA testing is underway to determine whether a body found in duffel bags in a Chicago lagoon is a missing Elgin woman, Elgin police said Monday. "We are investigating...
View ArticleSurvey wants to know source of Naperville student stress; results to be...
A survey given to Naperville middle and high school students will be used to help identify causes of what has been described as a culture of stress that some say have led to destructive behaviors...
View ArticleFilm session: Mitch Trubisky, Bears couldn't make Saints pay for blitzing...
The progression of rookie Mitch Trubisky is going to expose him to nearly everything a quarterback can face in the NFL. In Sunday's 20-12 loss to the Saints it was heavy pressure. The Bears won't...
View ArticlePresident Trump expected to nominate Jerome Powell for Fed chair
President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Jerome Powell as the next chair of the Federal Reserve, according to two people familiar with the president's decision who spoke on the condition of...
View ArticleSobbing toddler abandoned by carjackers who fled in pizza van
Elizabeth Freeland was tutoring high-school students in math and physics at her home in Oak Park on Monday night when she heard a loud banging on her front door. One of her students peeked out the...
View ArticleBears coach John Fox says Zach Miller in good spirits after serious knee injury
The angle at which Zach Miller's left leg bent was so horrifically wrong that there was little doubt the Bears tight end was seriously injured Sunday afternoon at the Superdome in New Orleans. It was...
View ArticleMan suspected of killing wife, self was longtime Chicago police officer
The man who fatally shot himself moments after his estranged wife was found murdered nearby was a longtime former Chicago police officer who had threatened to harm her before, according to her request...
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