WEATHER TURNS OUT FRIGHTFULLY DELIGHTFUL
Albany Park resident Ruth Sherman smiled as she peered into the dark waters of Montrose Harbor over the weekend, her children and grandchildren chatting on the quay around her. As...
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COMMUNITIES BURIED UNDER PLOWING COSTS
Even after the streets are cleared and salted, northwest suburbanites will pay a price for all this snow--during the warm months of summer and fall, no less. With two snowstorms...
COUNTY WINS A ROUND IN AMUSEMENT TAX BATTLE
The Illinois Appellate Court ruled Thursday that Rosemont cannot exempt customers from paying Cook County's controversial amusement tax, although patrons of the Rosemont Theatre and Rosemont Horizon won't be seeing...
MAN WINS RIGHT TO WIFE’S MONEY FOR REWARD FUND
In a ruling that could set a legal precedent in child-abduction cases, a judge agreed Wednesday to use $20,000 belonging to a Park Ridge woman as a reward for finding...
LANCET CASTIGATES AN AMA OFFICIAL
In an extraordinary move, The Lancet, one of the world's oldest and most respected medical journals, over the weekend called for the resignation of the American Medical Association's executive vice...
Holy Family dodges ruin to glitter anew
As a young altar boy, Frank Dioguardi would peer up into the Victorian Gothic interior of Holy Family Catholic Church on Chicago's Near West Side and stand awestruck at its...
O’HARE, MIDWAY PROCESS A RECORD-SETTING CROWD
A strong economy and low fares sent a record number of people traveling Wednesday, estimated to be the busiest travel day in Chicago history. Chicago Aviation Department officials expected 277,000...
VILLAGE OFFICIALS SAY FIRE CHIEF RESIGNING AFTER 13 YEARS AT POST
Palatine Fire Chief Richard Payne has decided to resign from the department he first joined in 1976 as a firefighter, village officials announced late Monday afternoon. Payne, who could not...
CONGRESSMEN COME HOME TO A DIVIDED CHORUS OF VOICES
Rep. Donald Manzullo sat Sunday night at the bar of his brother's restaurant in New Millford, held up a tablet of guest checks, and, with tears in his eyes, recalled...
WARY OF RETALIATION, CITY RAISES ITS GUARD
As American and British forces pounded Iraqi targets, airports, government buildings and other public sites across the Chicago area hunkered down Thursday with heightened security and an increased police presence....