CIA SIMULATION SHOWS TWA JET’S DRAMATIC DEMISE
Closing one of the most intense and sweeping investigations in its history, the FBI on Tuesday used a haunting computer simulation of the explosion of TWA Flight 800 to bolster...
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FACING TAKEOVER, CHA BOARD QUITS
In a sudden and dramatic move, Chairman Vincent Lane and six other members of the Chicago Housing Authority board resigned Friday, setting the stage for a federal takeover of the...
CLEANUP TIED TO FOUL DEED
For at least a decade, neighbors of Delores Arnold on Chicago's Northwest Side have signed petitions and have gone to court to get her to clean up her filthy buildings...
PLAN WILL EMPOWER ALREADY POWERFUL
After months of political wrangling and fierce debate, the City Council's Finance Committee approved an ordinance Monday to create a 39-member panel to help administer the millions of federal dollars...
BASKIN BACKPEDALING ON HIS COLEMAN QUOTE
Last week brought us Wallace "Gator" Bradley, 3rd Ward aldermanic candidate, announcing that he was not a gang member in an effort to control damage from an earlier outburst in...
DALEY POURS GAS ON ISSUE OF COP TEST
Standing at a lectern Tuesday before he stoked the fires of the ongoing controversy about police department promotion policies, Mayor Richard Daley might have been better off recalling the words...
YOUNG VIOLINISTS TAKE BOWS TO WHITE HOUSE
Talk about being able to pull strings. This group of violinists based in Des Plaines has played in Russia for President Boris Yeltsin. They've played in London for Princess Margaret....
TRACK HARDLY AT THE FINISH LINE
Arlington International Racecourse, built in 1927, the year Charles Lindbergh made the first solo transatlantic flight, has survived the Great Depression, World War II and a 1985 fire that twisted...
MASSAGE PARLOR OWNER, WORKER FACE SEX CHARGES
Authorities have charged the owner and an employee of a massage parlor with prostitution, after the employee allegedly solicited sex from an undercover officer, police said. Arrested Wednesday afternoon were...
ROAD PATCHING, WIDENING PROJECTS GET UNDER WAY
Work began Monday on reconstructing parts of two major thoroughfares. Illinois Highway 62 (Algonquin Road) will be expanded to four from two lanes from Penny Road in South Barrington to...