Cabdriver’s death tied to quarrel over $8 tab
A quarrel on a North Side street that allegedly ended with a Chicago city worker using a taxi to repeatedly run over and kill its driver apparently started over an...
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City worker charged in cabbie’s slaying
Update: A Cook County judge today denied bond for Michael L. Jackson in the killing of a Chicago taxi driver. A Chicago Department of Public Health employee who founded a...
PROTEST BUSES
More than 100 protesters bound for Washington rolled up their posters and donned their anti-war, anti-Bush pins as they boarded two charter buses in Chicago on Wednesday evening. They were...
Firefighter is held in crank call case
A Chicago firefighter was ordered held in lieu of $20,000 bail Wednesday for allegedly making a phony 911 fire call earlier this year when he was not allowed into a...
Security pushes homeless into perilous straits
Brian Davis is used to living dangerously, bundling himself in ragged sheets and blankets as he has slept on Lower Wacker Drive for the better part of three years. Davis...
State aims to speed aid for energy bills
When the full force of winter hits Chicago, thousands in the area will be without heat partly because a state contractor failed to process applications for assistance fast enough, state...
JOSEPH R. MACK, 85
Eileen Varisco will never forget when Joseph R. Mack handed her a pair of tickets to see a popular play. Mr. Mack had spotted his employee scouring the newspaper in...
Family of cops loses officer to crash with drunk driver
Police work came naturally to Officer Michael Gordon, a man who patrolled Chicago's rough-and-tumble Harrison District on the midnight watch. His father, Robert Jr., recently retired as assistant chief of...
Computer glitch grounds flights
A computer error that caused two of the nation's largest airlines to temporarily lose critical takeoff information forced flight delays Sunday for thousands of passengers nationwide. Spokeswomen for the two...
Police say escort service led to suspect
A Minnesota man was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail Monday in connection with his wife's slaying after his alleged attempt to use her credit card to pay...