Cardinal George Targets School Closings, Staff Cuts To Save Archdiocese Budget
The Chicago Archdiocese is closing five schools and eliminating 75 staff positions in an effort to save millions of dollars over the next two years.
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The Chicago Archdiocese is closing five schools and eliminating 75 staff positions in an effort to save millions of dollars over the next two years.
Police said abandoned buildings serve as havens for drug and gang activity.
Back in June, we brought you the 48-year-old Martin Tremblay, a youth hockey coach from Vancouver.
The boys, 15 and 16, touched the girl's breasts, buttocks and tired to slip their hands into her pants, police said.
Northerly Island Center Director Teish Daniel said, "we wanted to take advantage of the snow, and not have it melt away before Saturday got here."
Neither the bus driver nor the only passenger, a 12-year-old girl, were injured.
Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is reportedly writing a memoir in an effort to clean up his image, but the publicist who helped another disgraced Illinois politician get a book deal said Jackson's book could be a tough sell.
19-year-old Amanda Bach was shot and killed two years ago. Now a jury convicted her ex-boyfriend Dustin McCowan of murder.
The firestorm over concealed weapons moved to the Illinois House floor Tuesday, sparking Republican complaints that an extraordinary legislative process set up by majority Democrats would restrict the right to carry guns in public rather than allow it, as a federal court has ordered.
Dean Suominen, 37, avoided a possible jail term by pleading guilty to drunken driving and reckless driving charges stemming from the Jan. 10, 2012, crash in Naperville.
An Illinois House committee narrowly endorsed legislation to legalize gay marriage Tuesday, setting up a showdown on the House floor that could come in a matter of weeks.
Here are snowfall totals, reported to the National Weather Service, from Tuesday's winter storm.
From checking out the solar system to going head-to-head with other film buffs, there's never been a better time to be a nerd in Chicago.
Residents in the far northern suburbs were digging out from heavy snow early Wednesday, after they were hit hardest by the winter storm that blew through the Chicago area on Tuesday. A couple more inches could fall on Wednesday.
The man and woman were shot at 5:39 p.m. in the 3000 block of West 64th Street.
