Top suburban speller calmly tackles words
Theodore Yuan guesses he can spell about 10,000 words. Maybe more. But it was just one word--hyperborean--that mattered Wednesday night. After correctly spelling it, Theodore, 12, from Wright Jr. High...
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Matthews bus driver admits tour boat dumping
The tour bus driver for the Dave Matthews Band today admitted to emptying liquid waste onto an architectural tour boat as it passed beneath a bridge in downtown Chicago. As...
Fellow jurists won’t let fear stand in way of justice
In the wake of a colleague's unimaginable loss, judges at U.S. District Court in Chicago on Tuesday continued with the day-to-day matters of jurisprudence. One held closing arguments in a...
Fellow jurists won’t let fear stand in way of justice
In the wake of a colleague's unimaginable loss, judges at U.S. District Court in Chicago on Tuesday continued with the day-to-day matters of jurisprudence. One held closing arguments in a...
Lives are no longer on hold
For most Illinois National Guard soldiers just home from a yearlong deployment, the one thing on their minds was what they most dreamed of in the Iraqi desert: a decent...
After teen brawl, only grief
Four teenagers are expected to be charged Monday for their part in a weekend melee that killed a popular Elgin high school graduate and involved as many as 50 suburban...
Frozen valve shuts off gas on SW Side
Cipriano Gutierrez, 23, was planning to get a good night's sleep Monday. The Columbia College junior had a final exam Tuesday afternoon in art history and had spent the whole...
Former boyfriend quizzed in deaths
As they questioned the former boyfriend of a woman slain in Glenview with her mother, police Tuesday were trying to sort out a turbulent domestic history that triggered repeated encounters...
Hired Truck figure dies from injuries
A key figure in the federal investigation of the city's Hired Truck Program died Thursday, four weeks after he was critically injured in a fall from a horse. Nicholas LoCoco,...
Suspect’s mom, wife, son slain
The mother of an 11-month-old boy, Vinese Bell-Kracht was trying to piece her life together after a rocky two-year marriage. Last month her estranged husband, Martin Kracht, was charged with...