BUCKTOWN BABALUCI INSPIRES SUBURBAN SEQUEL
The owners of The Babaluci have big plans for their fledgling Hoffman Estates restaurant. Besides this sequel to the Bucktown original, they're mulling opening two more suburban locations. But first...
All Stories
ALLEGED RACCOON KILLER FACING NEW CHARGES
On Aug. 22, a Palatine man was accused of killing one raccoon by stabbing it and injuring a second one. On Thursday, Scott Knaack stood before a judge in the...
NOW, THE SEARCH FOR KILLER BEGINS
For almost two weeks, family and friends of missing 11-year-old Brittany Martinez held nightly prayer vigils outside her Elgin home, never abandoning hope for her safe return. But hope turned...
SISTER CITIES: 40 YEARS OF BUILDING GOODWILL IN A WARRING WORLD
The Sister Cities International program, which now benefits from the growing use of the Internet and lightning-quick e-mail, has its roots in another era, a decade after World War II....
MT. PROSPECT MAYOR WINS BIG AS WRITE-IN
What many thought was impossible happened Tuesday night in Mt. Prospect. By dint of organization and name recognition from 16 years of public service, Mayor Gerald "Skip" Farley won a...
EDISON FACES BIG FINE FOR BUNGLED REPAIR JOB
Last summer, contractors at Commonwealth Edison's LaSalle nuclear power station were filling cracks in a concrete floor by pumping them full of foam grout. What the workers didn't know, though,...
STUDY CITES FISCAL HANGOVER OF LIQUOR STORES
Along Chicago Avenue on the city's West Side, liquor stores are as much a part of the community as churches and schools. And in many of Chicago's poorest communities, they...
2 LAWSUITS ALLEGE ABUSE BY CHA POLICE
Alleging a pattern of abuses by Chicago Housing Authority police that included sexual assaults and robbery, some CHA residents called Wednesday for a U.S. Justice Department investigation of the charges....
BESIEGED STROGER SCRAPS TAX HIKE
In one of the most dramatic retreats in recent Chicago political history, Cook County Board President John Stroger on Monday pulled off the table his plan for a 15-fold increase...
ROOKIE JUDGES HAVING DAYS IN COURT
Time was, new judges relied on little more than their legal backgrounds and intuition to figure out how to behave on the bench. A judge would don a robe, take...