Demonstrators Shut Down Monroe Street Outside ALEC Meeting
About 500 demonstrators have shut down Monroe Street in front of the Palmer House Hilton - protesting the American Legislative Exchange Council meeting at the hotel.
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About 500 demonstrators have shut down Monroe Street in front of the Palmer House Hilton - protesting the American Legislative Exchange Council meeting at the hotel.
Democratic candidate for governor Bill Daley continued his attack on incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn to rescind his controversial pick for the CTA board, but ducked questions about patronage hiring under his brother and father, both former mayors.
Cortez Lyons, 25, and Timothy Moore, 26, were charged with armed robbery and aggravated criminal sexual assault for the attack on three teens in a Maywood alley in 2006.
Two people were hurt when a car crashed into a Binny's Beverage Depot in Highland Park and caught fire Thursday morning.
Two men arrested for breaking into a north suburban home, where they tied up two teenage girls and stole a safe, were breaking into homes under construction in Lake County to support drug habits, police said.
The two men were inside a white Chevy Tahoe with flashing lights in the grill when they pulled over a motorist about 12:30 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-57 at Lincoln Highway.
State officials have shut down a daycare center in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, after a 1-year-old girl died there earlier this week.
The National Weather Service is warning people to stay out of Lake Michigan today, because of large waves and dangerous rip currents along the lakefront in Illinois and Indiana.
The center in Englewood, run by Metro Family Services, is a first for that community in many ways.
The FBI has re-opened a 1964 kidnapping case in Chicago, after DNA evidence revealed the man believed to have been the victim was not the infant who was taken from Michael Reese Hospital nearly 50 years ago.
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Their music music may have made it around the globe, but these rock bands got their start right here in Chicago.
An intruder attacked the homeowner with a hammer in the man's garage, and the homeowner stabbed the burglar with a knife.
Police said a man was waiting for her outside the restroom, and attacked her as she exited the washroom to return to her booth.
A child was injured during a fire Wednesday night in the West Englewood neighborhood.
