Ice rink planned near Wrigley
The usual sight of baseball gloves and cleats at Wrigley Field will be replaced this winter with mittens and skates as the city's newest ice rink opens next to the...
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Jewelry thieves’ tunnel plan had a big hole in it
Taking a page from a Hollywood script, a group of industrious burglars broke into a West Rogers Park hair salon Monday and apparently tried to dig their way into the...
‘The train took my baby’
Joel and Rebecca Weinberg had just stepped off a Red Line train Monday evening and were headed down the Morse station steps when a woman rushed past them with a...
TV show host’s parents slain
The investigation of the slaying of a CLTV talk show host's parents has shifted from the south suburban forest preserve where they were found to their Indiana home. On Tuesday...
What a mess
Emergency crews worked through the night to complete repairs of a damaged downtown section of the Kennedy Expressway after a construction accident tore up two lanes of the roadway at...
RepublicCEO leaves jail on reduced bail
Republic Windows and Doors CEO Richard Gillman was released from Cook County Jail on Friday night after his bail was reduced by half, to $5 million. Gillman's bail was set...
‘It’s hard to believe,’ Stewart tells Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevich's stranger-than-fiction tour through America's media landscape reached a new milestone Thursday night as he appeared on "The Daily Show" to profess his innocence, flog his memoir and trade...
80-year-old recounts Loop attack
The lunchtime shooting in the Loop Thursday unfolded so quickly that 80-year-old Vasken Bayenderian never realized a knife had even been placed against his throat. A panhandler being chased by...
‘Am I Shot?’
The lunchtime shooting in the Loop Thursday unfolded so quickly that 80-year-old Vasken Bayenderian never realized a knife had even been placed against his throat. A panhandler being chased by...
2 men rescued from pit collapse
The walls of a 14-foot pit at a Chicago condominium building partially collapsed Sunday afternoon, trapping one worker in sand and dirt up to his waist and forcing another worker...