How real estate exec was charged in murder-for-hire plot
The case against Brooks Kellogg has all the elements of a graphic crime novel — an alleged mistress with a dark background, bruising high-stakes court fights and a murder-for-hire plot....
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Chicago marathon runners show grit, even if they don’t finish
If Matthew Covington seems like an unlikely marathon runner at 6 feet 3 inches tall and nearly 300 pounds, you should have seen him three months ago. "I was about...
John ‘Jay’ Boeldt, 1961-2010
Whether it was a gallery show, a homecoming parade or a community event, Oak Park artist John "Jay" Boeldt's involvement always added energy and creativity. But the last event he...
Activists protest FBI raids
About 350 anti-war activists, clergy members and trade union members demonstrated Monday outside the FBI's Chicago headquarters and condemned federal authorities for their raids last week of the homes of...
FBI raids anti-war activists’ homes
Federal agents searched homes of anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis on Friday in an investigation of possible links with terrorist organizations in the Middle East and South America. About...
FBI raids anti-war activists’ homes
Federal agents searched homes of anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis on Friday in an investigation of possible links with terrorist organizations in the Middle East and South America. About...
Lebanese immigrant charged in Wrigleyville bomb plot
Sami Samir Hassoun carried what he thought was a bomb — fashioned from a paint can and hidden inside a shopping bag — on a street near Wrigley Field more...
The great Illinois oil rush
Cleanup crews worked through the day Monday to repair a damaged section of pipeline in south suburban Romeoville that was responsible for leaking an estimated 256,000 gallons of crude oil...
2010: Plainfield, 20 years after the tornado
For longtime Plainfield residents, Aug. 28, 1990, is a touchstone, an indelible memory like where you were when the jets hit the World Trade Center or when Kennedy was shot....