Doing right by Wright too costly
Depending on whom you asked in 1952, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Avery Coonley estate in Riverside was an aging landmark or a developer's gold mine. But to Carolyn Howlett and...
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`Wedding Crashers’–the thievery division
It appears some thieves in Hinsdale have developed a "Wedding Crashers" complex. Fewer than five days apart, a tuxedo was reported missing from a bridal shop and a restaurant was...
Berwyn teenager charged in killing
A Berwyn teenager was charged Monday night with killing his father's girlfriend inside his home, police said. Ryan D. Gaston, 18, of the 1800 block of South Harlem Avenue faces...
THE HOTTEST DAY IN A DECADE, BUT THE CITY WAS READY
It was the heat and the humidity--and by the time he was halfway through a double shift making well-being checks across Chicago on Sunday, Sohail Shekha was feeling it. "Today...
Brain-damaged patient gives birth
A 23-year-old brain-damaged patient discovered to be pregnant while living in a Bloomingdale health-care facility delivered her baby by emergency Caesarean section Wednesday evening, a month earlier than planned. Relatives...
Police shoot teen fleeing South Side gunfight
Chicago police shot and wounded a 16-year-old boy who allegedly pointed a pistol at officers as they chased him from the scene of a gun battle early Sunday on the...
$1 million bail set in newborn’s death in Itasca
The 34-year-old Chicago woman accused of discarding her newborn daughter in a trash receptacle at an Itasca packaging plant Sunday was ordered held in lieu of $1 million bail Tuesday...
In U.S., Naperville’s No. 3
With a hint of glee, Naperville Mayor George Pradel ticked through the list of factors that earned Naperville the No. 3 spot on a national financial magazine's best places to...
Daylight slaying of UIC prof a mystery
Peter D'Agostino's colleagues said he had a reputation for pushing other historians to re-evaluate their perspectives. His 2004 book, "Rome In America," though critical of the Catholic Church, showed such...
Berwyn cops probe fatal shooting
Berwyn police are investigating whether the death of a 42-year-old woman found shot in her home Friday morning should be ruled a homicide or a suicide. Police called to the...