chicagotribune — Navy Pier design proposals fall into 2 campsAt their best, design competitions are a lot like opening your window on a breezy spring day. They let ideas flow, freeing us from concepts that have grown stale. And so it was last Tuesday and Wednesday nights when five design teams from...
chicagotribune — Skeptics chide health groups for taking money from makers of sugary drinks, fatty foodsSodas, sports drinks and other sugary beverages are an unhealthy choice for kids, according to the nation's leading pediatricians' group, which strictly opposes the sale and advertising of the products in schools.
chicagotribune — 'It's a sad day when your options are a Coke playground versus no playground'The dilapidated concrete playground at the Howe Elementary School of Excellence on Chicago's West Side was ripped out several years ago for safety reasons, leaving the children with no safe outdoor play space.
chicagoist — Governor Mitch Daniels is riding high after his State of the Union response last month. But while he is taking a star turn nationally, things are looking bumpy for him at home. [ more › ]
chicagotribune — Two men were charged and ordered held without bond in connection with a bank robbery that occurred Friday in the Portage Park neighborhood, officials said.
abclocal.go — A vigil was held Saturday night to honor an elementary school teacher stabbed to death early Saturday in a Naperville bar. Two other people were injured in the attack.
chicagotribune — Friends and family of a suburban teacher killed in a Naperville bar gathered tonight to remember an "inspirational person" and mourn all the children "that won't be taught by him."
chicagotribune — A judge set a $50 million cash bail today for a River Forest man accused of sexually abusing two children for more than a decade.
chicagotribune — As it prepares to make Chicago its North American headquarters, the German-based ThyssenKrupp manufacturing company is facing allegations that company supervisors in the city created a hostile and intimidating work environment for an African-American employee.
chicagotribune — A 34-year-old man was pronounced dead today after the vehicle he was in struck a series of parked cars on the West Side, officials said.
abclocal.go — An elementary school teacher is stabbed to death in a suburban bar. Shaun Wild was 24.
chicagotribune — An autopsy conducted today on a partially-decomposed body found in Park Ridge found that the unidentified man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.
chicagotribune — A man and his 17-year-old wheelchair-using son were held at gunpoint by two men who then stole the family’s van Friday afternoon in the Old Town neighborhood, police said today.
blogabull — [Thanks to prevenge for today's game preview. Game Thread at 7:30. Luol Deng may play. -yfbb] I initially wrote an entire game preview around the fact that the Bulls' last five guys were better than the Pistons best five guys. It wasn't entirely correct, but there are points where you can...
chicagotribune — Two Ogden District police officers were uninjured when a bullet hit the rear of their police SUV as they waited for a tow truck for a vehicle that had been in an accident in Lawndale early this morning.
chicagotribune — Police were questioning one person in the stabbing of three others at a Naperville bar early this morning, police said.
chicagoist — "The Rosie Show" changes format to attract more viewers, sheds jobs in the process. [ more › ]
chicagotribune — A Hammond man died this morning on the Indiana Toll Road near Portage, Ind., after the van he was driving spun out and was hit by a trailer truck, apparently because of icy road conditions, police said.
chicagotribune — NOBLESVILLE, Ind (Reuters) - An Indiana jury convicted embattled Republican Secretary of State Charlie White in the early hours of Saturday on six out of seven felony charges including perjury, theft and voter fraud.
abclocal.go — The search for a fisherman who might have fallen through the ice on a lake in Johnsburg has become a recovery mission.
chicagotribune — Chicago Police shut down a party early Saturday morning after getting a report of a person with a gun at the scene and arriving to find an unlicensed “social club” called “Cash Money on Deck.”
chicagotribune — A horse trailer came loose from the truck pulling it down the Indiana Toll Road early Saturday morning near Chesterton before hopping a median and striking a semitrailer and killing its driver.
chicagotribune — State, Cook County team up to combat foreclosure crisisIllinois is teaming with Cook County on a trial program in which a loan fund will be created to buy vacant foreclosed homes, renovate them and resell them at low interest rates.
