Consumer Safety Group Compiles Annual Dangerous Toys List
Child safety advocates said they've seen progress in recent years, but there's still "Trouble in Toyland" this holiday season.
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Child safety advocates said they've seen progress in recent years, but there's still "Trouble in Toyland" this holiday season.
Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez was among several people honored by her own prosecutors Wednesday for their efforts to put arsonists behind bars, for her controversial decision to prosecute the so-called "NATO 3" on terrorism charges for a plot to use Molotov cocktails ahead of the NATO Summit two years ago.
Every two years, the Chicago Women Charity Players put on a production as a fundraiser, designating the proceeds for a different charity each time. On Sunday night, they staged a production of "The Music Man." After the play, someone stole a lockbox with $2,000 in cash, along with checks and credit card receipts.
Experts have asked state lawmakers to require locking containers for prescription painkillers, to help prevent theft and abuse.
This year has not only been one of the coldest in Chicago, it is also one of the few places on the entire planet that was colder than average this year.
More than a month after a month-long teachers strike in Waukegan, tempers were still flaring at a City Council meeting, with one alderman calling teachers "lazy" for not removing solidarity ribbons they placed around Waukegan during their walkout.
Illinois lawmakers face a number of issues as they wind down their fall veto session but won't consider increasing the state's minimum wage. Votes could come Wednesday on an expanded election law and a state health-insurance exchange.
Police in southwest suburban Joliet were searching for whoever shot and killed two people Tuesday night, and wounded a third.
A domestic incident Tuesday evening in south suburban Riverdale led to the shooting death of one man, the kidnapping of two children, and a high-speed chase that ended in the West Pullman neighborhood of Chicago.
The man who gunned down his ex-girlfriend in the Michigan Avenue Nordstrom on Black Friday allegedly slugged one of her best friends six days earlier as she watched, sources said.
The Transportation Security Administration acknowledged they were caught flat-footed Sunday when travelers at Midway Airport were confronted with a security line that was over a mile long.
The 33-year-old claimed she was jogging on a Deer Grove Forest Preserve path about 4:15 p.m. Saturday, near Quentin and Dundee roads in Palatine, when a man ran up and stabbed her in the abdomen.
Get into the Christmas spirit with these cookie recipes from Chef Dobra Bielinski of Delightful Pastries in Chicago.
A trip to a winter wonderland can make this Christmas one you'll never forget.
Preservationists spoke in favor -- and everyone else against -- at a public hearing on landmark designation for much of the Randolph-Fulton Market area, west of the Loop.
