Bullet lodges in girl’s medallion
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with firing the bullet that flew through a bedroom window and struck an 11-year-old girl doing homework in her Northwest Side home, lodging in...
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City mourns cop killed fighting a `war’
A day after a Chicago police officer was struck and killed by a commuter train, police Supt. Terry Hillard stood Thursday before a new class of recruits, pointing to Benjamin...
Tears, songs and prayers help to heal
For three minutes, the only sounds at Daley Plaza were the crisp whipping of flags and the tolling of bells on a September day as bright and blue as one...
Silence shrouds vigilante killings
In the moments after three women were struck by a van and a mob turned on the driver and his passenger, there was no shortage of information coming into police--at...
Library faces Internet protest
More than 2,000 protesters outside the Harold Washington Library Sunday called for pornography-filtering software on Chicago library computers. Religious and civic leaders arranged the demonstration after Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey...
U.S. files link founder of charity to Al Qaeda
Rabih Haddad, a founder of an Islamic charity based in suburban Bridgeview, held meetings outside the U.S. more than a decade ago with members of terror groups linked to Al...
Support remains for 9/11 detainee
Among the mostly anonymous post-Sept. 11 detainees, Rabih Haddad has gained a high profile, with regular protests by supporters and, on Tuesday, a visit from U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.)....
Fans score stadium keepsakes at auction
Lonnie Martin paid $75 on Saturday to own a bit of Soldier Field history--a dented trash can. "The players threw their Gatorade cups in it," said Martin, 33, a Bears...
Doctor link to killing probed
Last month, just days before Joyce Brannon was to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Medicare fraud, Dr. Ronald Mikos, a podiatrist who was the target of the probe,...
Strange weather bursts on scene
In what's supposed to be the dead of winter, flowers bloomed, birds sang, a springlike fog rolled in and lightning from a rare January thunderstorm made a tree explode into...