NW Side crash kills student, truck driver
More than a dozen Maine East High School students wept and hugged Wednesday afternoon on a street corner on Chicago's Northwest Side, mourning a classmate whose driving allegedly led to...
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Winfrey thanks volunteers with loads of loot
Just call her Oprah Claus. Hurricane Katrina volunteers who thought they were invited to Oprah Winfrey's show to talk about their experiences were instead lavished with loot as part of...
Radio `character’ is critical after hit-run
On "Mancow's Morning Madhouse" radio show, Raymond "Cowboy Ray" Hofstatter is the resident expert on nutcrackers, cuckoo clocks and "Dark Shadows," a 1960s television series about vampires. At Bohica Bar...
Soggy Sox faithful go forth to tell tale
Chicago's drizzling rain kept falling Monday, like something out of a dream. White Sox fans stumbled through it and back to their normal lives in the morning--exhausted, damp with it,...
Passenger killed in taxi-SUV crash
When Max Martin left suburban San Antonio for the bright lights of Chicago, he got swept up in an urban lifestyle that had him shunning his roots. "He loved living...
Test for toxic stuff simple as 2 snips
Women worried about mercury contamination and their health can get a free test to see how much of the substance is in their bodies. All it takes is a couple...
Revelers lend paw for Katrina relief
Sometimes cliches are just too hard to resist, so here goes: Talk about putting on the dog. On Wednesday night, roughly 400 people and more than 50 dogs packed the...
Macy’s clock? Loyal shoppers ticked off
For many Chicagoans Marshall Field's was more than a place to shop. It was a once-a-year holiday visit to the retailer's landmark State Street store to gape at the awe-inspiring...
Field’s no more
The Marshall Field's name, as identified with Chicago as its lakefront and its skyline, is being erased in favor of a Manhattan moniker--Macy's. This move kills off a 153-year-old brand...
HEY, CHICAGO!
The first day of Chicago's new ban on driving while holding a cell phone did not look a great deal different from the bad old days of cruising and gabbing....