Sporting a patriotic tie, Frankfort Township assessor Paul Ruff sounded launched his bid for re-election as he charged that recent controversy over an offensive e-mail he forwarded was “manufactured” and “politically motivated.”
Brian Falatovich faces up to five years in prison for forgery and obstruction of justice for his role in the "Blaxican" movie scam. The 46-year-old admitted recruiting 17 friends and relatives into a fraudulent Hollywood investment scheme, taking at least $1.2 million of their cash.
The Chicago Urban League is challenging Illinois' school funding system. The group filed a civil rights lawsuit Wednesday in Cook County against the state and the Illinois State Board of Education. It claims funding schools based on property tax revenue is unconstitutional and violates the 2003 Illinois Civil Rights Act.
Flossmoor police on Wednesday continued looking for the driver of a black Honda Civic that smashed into the back of a Pace bus on Dixie Highway north of Vollmer Road.
A federal judge in Chicago has delayed the sentencing of political fundraiser Tony Rezko for more than a month, moving it closer to the presidential election.
A man was shot early Wednesday morning by men who stole his vehicle, Lynwood police said.
The cause of a fire that started in a biker bar with two patrons inside early Wednesday was under investigation in Willow Springs. No one was hurt.
Bremen High School District 228 officials are breathing a little easier now that a new state law has taken effect, changing the way that the state sends payments to school districts.
The head of Amtrak is set to appear in Chicago to discuss upgrades for the increasingly popular service.
Are you more likely to survive a heart attack if you're taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital or University of Chicago Hospitals? That's among the many questions you can answer for yourself with Hospital Compare, a searchable online database from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Regency Beauty Institute, which has 43 schools in 13 states, wants to open a branch in Tinley Park.
When the Rev. George Thomas was booted from a Homewood church late last year for allegedly diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars for personal use, the last place the congregation expected to see him next was at the pulpit of an affiliated church.
Canadian National Railway's attempt to buy the EJ&E Railroad is picking up supporters.
Tommy Lee Jr. wasn't the kind of kid to get himself shot.
Some residents of an Oak Lawn neighborhood have bats on their mind this summer — and not because of the blockbuster movie. Homeowners near 107th Street and Kenneth Avenue say they’ve seen bats daily, sometimes many together, and are worried that some could be rabid.
A long-running investigation into a paramedic cheating scandal in Oak Lawn claimed its first victims Tuesday, when two of the fire department's top-ranking members learned they had been demoted.
Development of the new Silver Cross Hospital site in New Lenox is moving quickly, and hospital officials said they want to keep up the pace.
Don't get scared if you see hundreds of people on hogs this weekend.
Chicago's first firefighter entrance exam in more than a decade produced its first graduating class Tuesday at a time of great uncertainty - police and fire layoffs are on the table to help close a projected $420 million shortfall in the city budget.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday scoffed at a federal hiring monitor's concerns that the possible layoff of more than 1,000 city workers could become a political purge.
SPRINGFIELD - Would-be successors to the retiring state Senate president boldly asserted leadership qualities Tuesday as they avoided pointing fingers of blame for legislative gridlock in Springfield.
DNA led Oak Lawn police to charge a Chicago man this week with stealing 36 catalytic converters worth about $1,000 each from new cars at a Hyundai dealership last year.
The mournful drone from a lone bagpiper drifted skyward as Chicago police Detective Robert Soto's steel-blue casket was eased gently into a hearse Tuesday.
SPRINGFIELD - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gave his clearest signal yet that he has settled on a running mate when he announced Tuesday he would appear Saturday in this city where he launched his campaign.
WASHINGTON - The University of Illinois at Chicago on Tuesday refused to release records relating to Barack Obama's service to a nonprofit group linked to former 1960s radical activist William Ayers.
SUROBI, Afghanistan - Heavily armed insurgents mounted two of the biggest attacks in years on Western forces in Afghanistan, killing 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sending a squad of suicide bombers in a failed assault early Tuesday on a U.S. base near the Pakistan border.
