Chicago Park Districts Will Collect, Recycle Your Christmas Trees
The city of Chicago is gearing up for the onslaught of real Christmas trees that people want to recycle over the next few weeks.
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The city of Chicago is gearing up for the onslaught of real Christmas trees that people want to recycle over the next few weeks.
The recent arctic blast has made the already demanding job of fighting fires even more dangerous, and the last few days have been especially bad, as temperatures lingered in the single digits from Monday night until Thursday morning.
Starting in January, Illinois will bar a rare criminal defense allowing the use of a victim's sexual orientation as justification for violent crime, a ban gay rights advocates say they will attempt to replicate in about half a dozen states next year.
A man found in his vehicle Tuesday morning in the West Side Austin neighborhood marks the fourth cold death of the season in Cook County.
A basement fire rendered a house uninhabitable early Thursday in west suburban Naperville.
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For some people, the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day is a time to go outside and fire guns into the air. Police are hoping to discourage the practice.
Water Department crews were called out to 115th and Yale around 5:15 a.m., after a vehicle crashed into a hydrant, shearing it off.
The raffle jackpot at the Morris VFW is approaching a million dollars, three months after a record $1.6-million jackpot brought some side effects to the community of 14,000.
If your pipes freeze in this bitterly cold weather, an expert says have patience when trying to thaw them.
AAA reports since the recent cold snap began in the Chicago-area, the number of calls it's received daily from stranded motorists has doubled.
The fire started around 10 p.m. at a 2 ½-story house at 18 N. Mason Av.
A firefighter was critically injured battling a fire Wednesday morning at a home in southwest suburban Justice.
Firefighters rescued a man from a clothing donation box early Thursday on the Near North Side.
As he entered his third hour of panhandling on a Kennedy Expressway overpass Wednesday afternoon, Devin Tolman set down his cup of coins and stripped away the two pairs of gloves he was wearing, rubbing his hands together and jumping in place.
