Wounded cop’s fight heartens doctors
Colleagues and family members of Chicago Police Detective Joseph M. Airhart Jr. were handed the thinnest threads Thursday from which to weave hope. The swelling from the gunshot wound Airhart...
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Slain cop known as a gentle giant
Chicago Police Officer Eric D. Lee, a Marine rifleman who served in hot spots from Korea to Beirut, was a bear of a man who worked in a police district...
WAITING ADDS TO ANGUISH OF CERIALE TRIAL
Each flicker of Michael Ceriale's smiling face on the television screen the past week has conjured a fresh wave of emotions for Chicago Police Officer Jackie Roberson: grief, anger and,...
GIRL’S DEATH MAY ALWAYS BE A MYSTERY
The death of a 66-year-old woman late Friday in a hospital here raises the specter that the decades-old mystery of a young girl's life and violent death may never be...
CRIME RATE DOWN, BUT STREET SMART KEEP HEADS UP
When William Bullion moved into an apartment at Milwaukee Avenue and Paulina Street in 1987, he gave no thought to being an urban pioneer. The blighted area simply was one...
A TOWERING DEGREE OF READINESS
They stayed awake waiting so we could stay awake partying. Across the globe, engineers, managers, technical personnel and uncounted others spent the holiday weekend drinking coffee and staring blearily into...
SURGERY MAY HELP EX-COP TO BREATHE ON HIS OWN AGAIN
In the years since he was paralyzed from the neck down by a gunman's bullet in 1996, Jim Mullen has had a constant companion: the respirator that breathes for him...
SONG OF THE SIDEWALKS: TAKE THIS JOB, SHOVEL
Margaret Groebner was a victim of this week's crime wave: unshoveled sidewalks. The 79-year-old Groebner-- who stands less than 5 feet tall with the scarf on her head--was forced to...
ON FRIGID DAWN, BABY FOUND DEAD AT CHURCH’S DOOR
Monsignor John Hayes of Epiphany Catholic Church had only just begun his solitary morning prayer when he heard a tentative knock at the door of his upstairs room in the...
NUMBER OF VOTERS A SURPRISE AT POLLS
After voting Tuesday, Edward Pozneck and his wife stepped outside the polling place at Immaculate Conception Parish into the wan light and biting wind of the coldest day of the...