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Rich Hyerczyk, 54, pleaded guilty in federal court that he sent 90 threatening letters over nine-year period starting in 2003 — including one in which he threatened to burn down former Mayor Richard M. Daley's vacation home in Michigan, the Sun-Times is reporting.
"'Crazy' was just my way of saying, 'That's real love. When you feel like you've gone crazy. That's when you've actually gotten something right.'"
Almost one in four of the roughly 23,000 Illinois residents who have applied for concealed carry permits live in Cook County.
The person, who was not a student, was found dead in Fitzpatrick Hall about 10:30 a.m., according to a statement on the university's website.
A suspicious package at a Metra station in the Hyde Park neighborhood halted trains for more than an hour on the South Side early Thursday afternoon.
Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman expressed frustration with both sides that the issue arose at the last minute.
There's a new app on the market today and it's designed to help your dog or cat in emergencies.
For the first time this year, all four of the Republican candidates for governor were on the same stage, and there were some fireworks.
A carbon monoxide leak Thursday morning in west suburban Oak Brook left an 84-year-old man dead and sent at seven women to the hospital.
Five years after teaming up with Elton John for a concert at Wrigley Field, Billy Joel will return this summer for a solo concert.
A South Side high school student was ordered held without bond Thursday after being charged with the fatal shooting of a man last month in Englewood.
Louis Tabor, 23, was charged with first-degree murder for the shooting death of 26-year-old Marquis Strong on July 22, 2011.
Jaquan D. Hosey-Green, 19, and his 18-year-old brother, Dimitri J. Hosey-Green, both of the 1200 block of Fairfield in Joliet, are each charged with one count of first-degree murder in connection with the death of Arin T. Williams.
Roughly 100 Evanston residents Wednesday night applauded a proposal to lease a historic mansion on Evanston's lakefront to the state's coastal management program for its offices and an education center.
About 1:30 a.m., a car was heading east in the 1500 block of West Chicago Avenue "at a high rate of speed," when it rear-ended another car, and caused a domino-effect crash, damaging two more cars.
