IT’S NOT ONLY MERCURY THAT’S FALLING IN LOOP
It's August in Chicago, and while Chicagoans are donning jackets to ward off unseasonably chilly temperatures, commuters may consider hardhats to deflect bricks and glass that has been falling off...
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SCHOOL’S OUT, HUNGER’S NOT
As if drawn by some pied piper, the children arrive in steady streams at this converted Chicago Housing Authority apartment. They come for breakfast and boxed lunches, neatly prepared-and free....
STRIKE STALLS CAR WORK
About 2,700 union mechanics for 214 Chicago-area new-car dealers struck Tuesday, and some dealers, already hit by a strike by 300 workers, sent a blunt message that they would fight...
BOY PLAYING WITH DAD’S GUN SHOOTS SELF
A 3-year-old boy who was playing with his father's gun shot himself in the abdomen Sunday night on the city's South Side, police said. Akmal Shabazz was in serious condition...
SMOOTH OPERATORS
After work one night last month, Al Traber headed to a pay phone on the Near West Side to let his wife, Judith, know that his bicycle had a flat...
NEW VOTE SOUGHT ON UNITED BUYOUT
A class-action suit filed in federal court in Chicago Wednesday aims to put off the machinists union's participation in the proposed employee buyout of United Airlines. The buyout by two...