Investigation of payment demand from ‘Source Code’ production supervisor in hands of private firmAllegations that a Metra official demanded a $2,000 payment from the makers of the movie “Source Code” sat idle for months as the transit agency was buff…
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Both sides will be reshaping their strategies A federal judge Thursday signaled “game on” for next week’s scheduled corruption retrial of Rod Blagojevich, forcing the former governor back to court after occupying himself for months with frequent procl…
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A gunman chased down and fatally shot a 16-year-old boy this afternoon on a street in the city’s Little Village neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Lakeview mom released after posting bail in infant death case A Lakeview mother charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 8-month-old son was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time, her lawyer said Thursday.
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The Chicago Housing Authority high-rises that once towered over the Dan Ryan Expressway and parts of the Near North Side have vanished from the city’s landscape, but most of the former residents remain clustered in low-income neighborhoods in Chicago …
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