Former Trump campaign adviser, DePaul alum from Chicago pleads guilty to...
The 30-year-old Chicago man who entered the first guilty plea in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of the Russian government’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election is just a “small part”...
View ArticleNikola Mirotic works out - after Bulls leave for Miami
Nikola Mirotic visited the Advocate Center on Wednesday for his first supervised, light workout since Bobby Portis punched him in the face on Oct. 17, breaking two facial bones and causing a...
View ArticleAlderman: Enlist cats to fight Chicago rats?
It wouldn’t be Chicago budget season without a lengthy debate over how to deal with the city’s rat problem, and aldermen Tuesday took it up with officials from the Department of Streets and...
View ArticleJimmy Kimmel does it. But should you hide Halloween candy from kids?
After trick-or-treating, kids will be hauling home pounds of sugary loot. Some parents might want to parcel it out, so their son or daughter doesn’t get a stomach ache. Others might hide it altogether...
View ArticleYu Darvish: Meeting Yuli Gurriel not needed after racist gesture
Yu Darvish didn't think it was necessary to meet with Yuli Gurriel after the Houston first baseman's racist gesture toward the Dodgers pitcher. Gurriel contacted the Dodgers and told them he wanted to...
View ArticleJudge partially lifts gag order in case of Wheaton College athletes accused...
Lawyers for the Wheaton College football players accused of injuring a player during a hazing incident can publicly comment on the case after a DuPage County judge agreed Tuesday to partially lift a...
View ArticleFacebook, Twitter, Google defend security measures
As revelations emerged that Russian-linked accounts reached many more American voters than previously thought, tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google on Tuesday defended their security measures and...
View ArticleDrew Peterson pens letter to ex-attorney, vows to strip law license
It’s no secret that there’s no love lost between convicted killer Drew Peterson and his former attorney Joel Brodsky. But last month’s ruling by the Illinois Supreme Court upholding the 63-year-old...
View ArticleVilla Park native brings Nashville hot chicken to Oak Lawn
The last 18 months have been an exercise in patience and persistence for Joe Fontana.The Villa Park native, who grew up cooking meatballs with his Italian grandmother and later ran a pop-up meatball...
View ArticleCBS 'looking into' groping allegations against Jeremy Piven
CBS is "looking into" sexual harassment allegations leveled by reality star Ariane Bellamar against Jeremy Piven. Bellamar accused the "Entourage" star of groping her in a tweet posted Monday using...
View ArticleNFL's deadline features some big trades for a change
The NFL trade deadline finally featured some big-name buzz. The winless San Francisco 49ers acquired New England backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, and the NFL-leading Philadelphia Eagles bolstered...
View ArticleBears' Zach Miller 'progressing well' two days after urgent surgery
The talk around Halas Hall on Tuesday again centered on tight end Zach Miller' recovery from a gruesome leg injury. Here's what we learned after the Bears completed one of two practices heading into...
View ArticleNaperville police, fire drop boxes collect 1.2 tons of drugs in one year
More than a ton of prescription and over-the-counter drugs — 2,342 pounds to be exact — have been voluntarily dropped off at Naperville police and fire departments collection boxes in the past 12...
View ArticleFantasy football waiver wire for Week 9: Kenyan Drake vs. Damien Williams...
Jay Ajayi’s trade to the Eagles blew the doors off the fantasy football world and creates big opportunities for his Dolphins successors. But there’s a bigger takeover happening in Baltimore....
View ArticleFar South Side hospital receives F grade for safety
A hospital serving mostly low-income people on the city’s Far South Side is one of only 15 in the country to get a patient safety grade of F on a recent report — a grade the hospital disputes....
View ArticleKey parts of women's tale of survival at sea contradicted
Two women from Hawaii who were rescued after being lost at sea defended their account of the ordeal Tuesday, insisting that a storm was whipping up 30-foot waves and near hurricane-force winds on the...
View Article8 killed by motorist in 'cowardly act of terror' in New York
A man in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists along a busy bike path near the World Trade Center memorial on Tuesday, killing at least eight and seriously injuring 11 in what the...
View ArticleTrump resists mounting pressure from Bannon, others to fight Mueller
Debate intensified in President Donald Trump's political circle on Tuesday over how aggressively to confront special counsel Robert Mueller, dividing some of the president's advisers and loyalists as...
View ArticleThe New York attack: Terror by the ton
Imagine the scene along Chicago’s lakefront path on a typical weekday afternoon. Cyclists cruising in both directions, past runners and darting children just released from school. Now imagine a rental...
View ArticleVictim rights advocate says state lawmaker sexually harassed her, complaint...
A victims' rights advocate on Tuesday publicly accused a state senator of sexual harassment and said her complaint fell on deaf ears at the Capitol for nearly a year. Denise Rotheimer, an activist for...
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