Ex-Bear McMichael Won't Debate Romeoville Mayor John Noak
Romeoville Mayor John Noak wants to debate his opponent in the April 9 election, but his challenger, Super Bowl Bear Steve McMichael, is saying no.
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Romeoville Mayor John Noak wants to debate his opponent in the April 9 election, but his challenger, Super Bowl Bear Steve McMichael, is saying no.
Patti Blagojevich marked the first year of her husband Rod Blagojevich's first year in prison by posting a message to the former governor's supporters on her Facebook page.
The president spent time Friday at several stations at the facility that research how cars use energy.
Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker has resigned from the Chicago Board of Education.
The governor's brother, John Quinn, will remain on the faculty as a social studies teacher. He's been at the Catholic high school in Oak Park for more than 30 years, and won a Golden Apple Award in 1992. Both brothers are alums of the school.
At last report from his attorneys, Blagojevich was about to begin working in the prison library last November, after starting out washing dishes like any other new inmate.
A West Side alderman has proposed an ordinance that would give some special attention to families whose children repeatedly violate the city's curfew for young people.
The CTA's management insists that its new "Ventra" fare system won't cost riders anything extra. But even some of its board members sounded unconvinced despite approving it unanimously Wednesday at their monthly board meeting.
Eighteen suburban school districts will be deciding in the not-too-distant future whether to contract with an online school district that's starting up in the Fox River Valley.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proposed an ordinance to require contractors hire neighborhood residents for many construction projects funded by the city.
Sam Adam Jr., an attorney for William Beavers, angrily told reporters Tuesday that he was "outraged" there were no black men in the 50-person jury pool. He suggested its composition was somehow fixed in advance. Beavers is black.
A Chicago alderman is calling for a rollback on city and county cigarette taxes as a way to cut crime.
The city's "gun offender registry" will be expanded in the coming weeks, after the City Council voted Wednesday to increase the number of crimes that would prompt a requirement to enlist in the registry.
At worse than 100 to 1, the odds of a randomly-selected jury pool in Chicago containing not a single black man might make even the most compulsive gambler cringe.
Judge James Zagel says prosecutors can broach a 2005 return that included a letter in which Beavers acknowledges $43,000 in campaign money as income. Zagel says it goes to prosecutors' argument that Beavers understood the requirement to report such money.
