ComEd Offering $10M In Financial Aid To Customers
The brutal winter temperatures have proven to be a real financial hardship for many homeowners, prompting ComEd to set aside $10 million to help customers in need pay their electric bills.
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The brutal winter temperatures have proven to be a real financial hardship for many homeowners, prompting ComEd to set aside $10 million to help customers in need pay their electric bills.
At least 23 people have died of cold-related causes in Cook County this season, the most since 2008-09, with the latest being a Humboldt Park man and an Austin woman.
The unrelenting, bitter winter of 2013-14 is by one measure the coldest season in the history of Chicago.
Tornado sirens will sound all across Illinois on Tuesday, as part of a statewide drill taking place in all 102 counties.
Timothy Tkachik, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to two Class A felony counts of neglect of a dependent, had argued in his appeal that the judge who sentenced him to 40 years failed to consider several mitigating factors.
McCarthy, who has been one of the most vocal critics of the law allowing Illinois residents to carry concealed firearms in public, warned there will be confrontations that could escalate into deadly shootings.
At age 80, retired Chicago physician and educator Dan Winship is getting a bittersweet last chance to teach about medicine — only this time he's the subject.
A state licensing board has rejected about half of the concealed carry applications it has reviewed based on law enforcement objections — but those applications represent a tiny fraction of the total number filed.
Stock your kitchen with gadgets from these five specialty kitchen stores in Chicago.
College students on a budget may still find discount travel packages to spring break destinations like South Padre Island, Daytona Beach and Panama City.
Darius Walker, 24, got into a gray Oldsmobile Alero sedan and forced an elderly woman to drive away at gunpoint near Cermak Road and California Avenue.
Ideary Mooney, 38, faces one felony count of attempted first-degree murder after he opened fire in a barbershop in the 9000 block of South Ashland Avenue on Monday.
The 36-year-old was found lying between two parked vehicles in the 8300 block of South Brandon Avenue. He was initially thought to have been killed in a hit-and-run, police said, but his cause of death has not yet been determined.
Brion M. Dowdell, 22, of the 8300 block of South Justine Avenue, faces one felony count of first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting in the 8000 block of South Elizabeth Street.
The victim, a 33-year-old man, was found on the sidewalk in the 9200 block of South Stony Island Avenue about 11 p.m.
