Karoun Demirjian
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Fire damages North Side high-rise
A high-rise fire in Chicago's Wrigleyville neighborhood Thursday afternoon damaged several apartments but caused only one injury, authorities said. One firefighter was hurt and was in stable condition, said Fire...

Most fans greet report with shrug
The Mitchell report may have sent shock waves through baseball Thursday, as name by name the careers of some of the sport's biggest modern-day heroes were discredited. But to most...

Reasons aplenty for saying thanks
A shrine of bricks labeled with the names of dead teenagers greeted families as they entered a South Side community center for a Thanksgiving Day meal. It wasn't an attempt...

Rain doesn’t slow travelers
In retrospect, Duane Carpenter and his son did not need to speed through northern Illinois to catch that plane to Florida.Ernest and Joyce D'Andria need not have arrived seven hours...

Davis claims profiling after W. Side traffic stop
U.S. Rep. Danny Davis has accused two Chicago police officers of racial profiling after they pulled him over and gave him a traffic ticket on the West Side earlier this...

Spiritual trip brings leader to Chicago
Robed in gold and black vestments with a jeweled cross over his forehead, His Holiness Karekin II, patriarch of the worldwide Armenian Apostolic Church, anointed a Chicago Armenian church Wednesday...

3 killed, 2 injured in 1-car crash
Three men, including two brothers, died after the car they were traveling in left a rural Kane County road early Saturday and hit a tree. Two others were seriously injured...

2 local soldiers are killed in Iraq
The chess set that soldier Phillip Brodnick had sent his mother for her birthday arrived Wednesday, and it now sits in a glass case in her living room. The set...

Group cancels forum on book about Israel lobby
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs' decision to cancel a forum about a controversial upcoming book on the influence of the pro-Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy has sparked a...

Missing man, 76, is found unharmed
A 76-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease who had been missing for two days was found safe Tuesday night on Chicago's Southwest Side, police said. Hayes Robinson was discovered shortly after...
