Jay Cutler may postpone broadcast career a few more years, despite broken bones
Is this what Jay Cutler signed up for? You know, besides the $10 million he's reportedly getting to play for the Dolphins this season. The former Bears quarterback and almost broadcaster for Fox...
View ArticleAir Force says it failed to follow procedures, allowing Texas church shooter...
The Air Force says it failed to follow policies for alerting federal law enforcement about Devin P. Kelley's violent past, enabling the former service member, who killed at least 26 churchgoers Sunday...
View ArticleWith Bobby Portis back, Bulls supporting him and Nikola Mirotic becomes tougher
Free Bobby Portis. When the first-round pick arrived in 2015, he playfully picked up on this minor Twitter hashtag movement intended to get the energetic rookie some playing time as he sat mired...
View ArticleCubs make qualifying offers to Jake Arrieta, Wade Davis
The Cubs gained some insurance Monday by making qualifying offers to free-agent pitchers Jake Arrieta and Wade Davis, but they found out the price for some free-agent targets will be steep. The Cubs...
View ArticleInfluential think tank retracts analysis of GOP tax bill
The Tax Policy Center on Monday retracted its assessment of House Republicans' tax bill after discovering an error in its model, a mistake that will complicate the effort to evaluate the legislation...
View ArticleAlderman rips Emanuel study for failing to address Uber driver fingerprinting
Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration late Monday released a long-in-the-making ride-hailing study, but an alderman ripped the report for sidestepping the issue of whether Uber and Lyft drivers should...
View ArticleTen years in prison for Bolingbrook man who sexually assaulted girl
A Bolingbrook man who sexually assaulted a girl repeatedly from 2002 through 2004 was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday. Fred Mack Jr., 65, was a family friend and pastor who assaulted the...
View ArticleRauner offers only mild critique of lawmakers' handling of sexual harassment...
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner doesn’t pass up many opportunities to bash the Democratic-controlled General Assembly, but on Monday he offered only a mild critique of how lawmakers are handling a sexual...
View ArticlePursuer describes gun battle and 95 mph chase with Texas shooting suspect
Johnnie Langendorff stumbled into the crossfire in a total accident. Sunday morning was all routine until then. Langendorff — a lanky Texan with a fuzzy chin beard and the long horns of a bull's skull...
View ArticleHumane society rescues more dogs from alleged puppy mill near Peotone: 'Some...
The South Suburban Humane Society took possession Monday of another five dogs from a property near Peotone where 48 dogs had previously been rescued from alleged squalid conditions, according to the...
View ArticleMother charged in 6-year-old son's death in Round Lake Beach
A Round Lake Beach woman was charged Monday in connection with the death of her 6-year-old son. Jamie Jones, 29, of the 1800 block of Cedar Lake Road, was charged with two counts of first-degree...
View ArticleOpposing lawyer: GLBT rail plan 'officially over'
Great Lakes Basin Transportation, the firm planning a freight train line from Wisconsin to LaPorte, has missed two deadlines to appeal and is "officially over," an opposition lawyer said. After the...
View ArticleAfter Texas mass shooting, Chicago-area churches seek balance between...
The Rev. Kurt Hartrich doesn’t know what more he can do to keep his parishioners safe. They already must cross two thresholds and pass muster with security guards before they can enter the worship...
View ArticleJury finds Thomas Snow guilty of murder in his parents' 2013 bludgeoning deaths
A Lowell man was found guilty Monday of murder in the 2013 bludgeoning deaths of his parents, whose decomposing bodies police found in their home nearly a month later. After an eleven day trial, a...
View ArticleAfter Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers, Bears take aim at new Packers QB
Mike Tomczak is the answer to a trivia question so obscure he didn’t realize it. The former journeyman quarterback, and a member of the Super Bowl XX Bears, is the last Packers quarterback to start...
View ArticleHow a former U. of I. athletic director earns nearly $500,000 in annual...
When the University of Illinois gave a large pay raise to its longtime athletic director a decade ago, it offered an example of the ever-increasing salary arms race to lure and keep college coaches...
View ArticleGriffith teacher charged with stealing thousands of dollars from...
A Griffith elementary school teacher allegedly stole thousands of dollars from a parent-teacher organization for which she was the treasurer, according to court records. Kristen Reczek, a teacher at...
View ArticleAre we teaching survival — or paranoia — as mass shootings continue?
I was reading a story Tuesday on how to protect yourself during a mass shooting when I had a vision of the civil defense drills of my childhood. The atomic bomb was the great bogeyman for American...
View ArticleCook County commissioners target big hospital budget for cuts
One Cook County commissioner on Tuesday pointed to hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid medical bills as a possible way to plug the county’s budget hole — but Health and Hospitals System...
View ArticleJudges sleeping through evidence not cause for new trial, Illinois appeals...
If a judge falls asleep during a murder trial, should the defendant automatically get a new trial? A divided Illinois Appellate Court panel recently said no; so long as the judge was not dozing...
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