Woman shot while dropping off family: 'You see in a heartbeat how fast...
Silvia Berger feels fortunate. She's sitting in her daughter's West Town home, nursing a gunshot wound to the leg from a robbery in back of the house as she was dropping off her daughter, son-in-law...
View ArticleTrump-target CNN to skip annual White House holiday party for the press
The annual White House holiday party for the news media is usually a placid affair, with cookies, punch and a photo opportunity. The president and first lady pose for souvenir photos amid festive...
View ArticlePolice-involved shooting wounds 1 in Washington Park
An armed man was shot by police during an encounter that began with a shots-fired call in the Washington Park neighborhood Wednesday afternoon. Around 2:15 p.m., police were dispatched to a call of...
View ArticlePolice search for man who tried to rob Rivers Casino with 'give me all the...
Police are searching for a suspect who they say attempted an armed robbery at Rivers Casino but left without getting any cash. The Illinois State Police said the suspect handed a note to a cashier at...
View ArticleGarrison Keillor, ex-host of 'A Prairie Home Companion,' fired after...
Garrison Keillor, whose stories of small-town characters entertained legions of public radio listeners for 40 years on "A Prairie Home Companion," became another celebrity felled by allegations of...
View ArticleEPA plans $22.6 million cleanup for contaminated East Chicago industrial land
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced a $22.6 million plan to clean up former DuPont industrial land in East Chicago. The EPA said the 440-acre DuPont facility, at 5215...
View ArticleSenate GOP advances tax bill toward vote later this week, but changes are...
Senate Republicans pushed their tax plan past another key hurdle Wednesday, a show of momentum for President Trump’s top priority even as frantic negotiations with Republican holdouts made final...
View ArticleIll. attorney general to investigate Massage Envy policies after sex...
Following reports of nearly 200 lawsuits filed across the country by women who said they were groped or sexually assaulted by their massage therapists, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan...
View ArticleNorth Korea on the march
With the push of a button and test-launch of another intercontinental ballistic missile Tuesday night, North Korea leader Kim Jong Un raised the stakes in his mad dash to assemble a nuclear weapons...
View ArticleRauner campaign touts rating from activist who said Lincoln fought Civil War...
Bruce Rauner may be the governor of the “Land of Lincoln,” but he’s promoting kudos from a group led by a self-styled taxpayer watchdog who contends Abraham Lincoln fought the Civil War to keep...
View Article'Adrenaline kicked in': Would-be break-in victim fired at suspects after...
Steve Allen said he saw a person's shadow moving along the ceiling in his Calumet Township living room Tuesday night as his two small dogs barked. "They just went crazy," said Allen, 66. "They were...
View ArticleNBC fires Matt Lauer over 'inappropriate sexual behavior'
"Today" show host Matt Lauer was fired for what NBC on Wednesday called "inappropriate sexual behavior" with a colleague and was promptly confronted with a published report accusing him of crude and...
View ArticleDeveloper pitches $43 million 'Navyseum' attraction for North Chicago
A new Navy-related 130,000-square-foot complex — described as an interactive "sailor for a day" attraction — is in the works in North Chicago, officials said. The planned $43 million Navyseum, which...
View ArticleGutierrez: 'I haven't decided to run' for president
U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez said Wednesday he’d consider entering the 2020 presidential contest if a bid would be the best way to spur immigration reform and the rebuilding of hurricane-ravaged Puerto...
View ArticleIn Missouri speech, Trump touts benefits of tax cuts for 'the people that...
With a critical Senate vote looming, President Donald Trump on Wednesday pitched the Republican tax plan as a boon to his working-class supporters, even as independent analyses have indicated that the...
View ArticleVideo contradicts accounts of Chicago cops in a 2014 fatal shooting of teen
Two Chicago police officers changed their accounts of a controversial fatal police shooting after viewing police surveillance video that showed they were not as close to the shooting as they had said,...
View Article'Meteor Shower' on Broadway stars Amy Schumer in a loud and messy Steve...
If you’re Steve Martin — you know, that off-kilter, one-man cultural conglomerate — and you walk into some Los Angeles house party, you must quickly find yourself surrounded by tediously chatty rich...
View ArticleAurora man who hit car wash, Salvation Army in critical condition after being...
A 71-year-old Aurora man is in critical condition after police rescued him from his burning pickup truck following a series of crashes Tuesday night in Montgomery. No charges appear to have been filed...
View ArticleMan killed girlfriend's cousin for telling girlfriend about his flirting:...
A South Side man sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting his girlfriend in North Dakota this year killed the girlfriend's cousin in 2016 after she told the girlfriend the man had been flirting...
View Article'Let me get my daughter out of the vehicle': Gunmen try to carjack Oak Park...
Oak Park police said a mother attempting to take her daughter out of her car had a gun placed to her head during an attempted vehicular hijacking Tuesday night in the 700 block of North Lombard...
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