BUSH TURNS TO TOP U.S. COURT
A landmark Illinois Supreme Court ruling hailed by Vice President Al Gore's lawyers may not be the legal home run they believe will aid his quest to win Florida's 25...
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POLICE PROBING GIRL’S DEATH AT CENTER
An 11-year-old mentally retarded girl died of asphyxiation at an Elgin counseling center after being pinned to the floor face-down by two case managers from the Little City Foundation home...
SOCKERS TO TAKE ON THEIR GOLIATH
Imagine the Mudville Nine taking on the New York Yankees in an all-or-nothing showdown at a suburban high school ballfield. The soccer equivalent of that "Field of Dreams" scenario will...
FIREHOUSE SEX STORY CONFIRMED
Chicago fire officials Thursday said they had confirmed some elements of a prostitute's story that she provided sex to on-duty firefighters at a Northwest Side firehouse. Kathryn Nelson, deputy commissioner...
$180,000 MISSING FROM TOLL AUTHORITY
State police are investigating more than $180,000 in missing cash that is believed to have been stolen from the money-counting room in the Downers Grove headquarters of the Illinois State...
FLIERS PLAY WEATHER OR NOT AS SNOW SWEEPS BY
A weather system approaching Chicago from the southwest blanketed the region with snow Saturday evening, but few problems were reported for area roads and airports. By early Sunday, up to...
DEPAUL ATHLETE HURT AFTER TEAM VAN CRASHES
A DePaul University women's shot-putter was hospitalized Saturday morning after a team van traveling to a meet in Indianapolis skidded off an icy Interstate Highway 65 near Rensselaer, Ind. Montia...
REACTION MIXED TO MT. PROSPECT COP-BIAS VERDICT
A day after a federal judge said there was "strong evidence" that Mt. Prospect police targeted Hispanics for arrest, reactions in the city's fast-growing Hispanic community ranged from vindication to...
GREAT-AUNT LEAVES FAMILY A MILLENNIUM OF MEMORIES
Never a wife or mother herself, Loretta Gierke nonetheless was the driving force behind her extended family's frequent gatherings. And she reprised that lifelong role Thursday--more than seven years after...
STREET PLAN MAY BE DEAD END
Elgin city officials are raising hurdles to prevent Hoffman Estates from bringing more traffic down their residential streets with a proposed park and subdivision. At issue is a road that...