The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it activated today a new electric fish barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal near Romeoville designed to keep Asian carp from migrating to Lake Michigan.

The University of Notre Dame has filed paperwork to appeal the findings from a state investigation into the death of Declan Sullivan, a football team videographer who died last fall when a hydraulic lift he was in toppled over amid high winds.

The University of Notre Dame has filed paperwork to appeal the findings from a state investigation into the death of Declan Sullivan, a football team videographer who died last fall when a hydraulic lift he was in toppled over amid high winds.

The unruly passenger on a Paris-bound flight that prompted the plane’s diversion to O’Hare International Airport on Wednesday night was questioned and released with no charges filed, the  FBI said.

A Chicago woman who allegedly used a stolen debit card to purchase hamburgers for herself and two children less than 50 yards from where the card was reportedly stolen is scheduled to appear in Will County court April 25 on two felony charges.