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Landlords fail to fix poor’s housing woes

As Chicago bulldozes its notorious high-rise housing developments, low-income families have moved into a growing network of private buildings with conditions sometimes as dire as public housing complexes. Families shiver...
A memorial for Krystal Tobias and Laura Hobbs grows near Beulah Park where their bodies were found Monday. Crystal Belman,14 (left), and Sara Cernoch,14, friends of Tobias' brother, leave flowers and write messages on two crosses in memory of the girls.

2 missing girls are found slain

[Read an update of this story.] It started as a typical spring Sunday for two 2nd-grade girls: riding bikes, flying kites, swinging in a backyard hammock and, later, an adventure...
A memorial for Krystal Tobias and Laura Hobbs grows near Beulah Park where their bodies were found Monday. Crystal Belman,14 (left), and Sara Cernoch,14, friends of Tobias' brother, leave flowers and write messages on two crosses in memory of the girls.

Police: Dead Zion girls were stabbed

It started as a typical spring Sunday for two 2nd-grade girls: riding bikes, flying kites, swinging in a backyard hammock and, later, an adventure in a wooded public park that...
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Judge’s fight with Fitzgerald boils over

In a nasty, months-long fight, a U.S. District Court judge has alleged that a federal prosecutor may have broken the law by turning over grand jury materials to lawyers in...