Cheers rise as ship sinks
After three hours and 30,000 gallons of water, the M/V Buccaneer met her fate at the bottom of Lake Michigan. And the crowd of onlookers cheered.The loss of the Buccaneer...
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3 dead, 8 hurt in W. Side shootings
At least 11 people were shot Saturday on the city's West Side, including seven people in less than 15 minutes during a hot afternoon that had police radios crackling. The...
Tadao Takano, longtime professor at UIC, dies
Tadao Takano, a graphic artist and longtime professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was a pioneer in the use of a new technology to create his own distinctive...
Cook County gives suburbs an out on red-light cameras
Suburbs across Cook County won a reprieve Tuesday from having red-light cameras installed at their intersections without their approval. Cook County commissioners voted 9-4 to allow suburbs to opt out...
Hawks parade packs downtown
In a celebration nearly a half-century in the making, Chicago hoisted the Blackhawks on its famed big shoulders Friday and threw one heck of a party. They sang and danced....
Southeast Side activist fought for environment
Marian Byrnes once let a raccoon spend the winter in her cupboard. She refused to put out a nest of rodents in her garage and took in as many as...
Man arrested in slayings of three women on the South Side
The mystery behind the deaths of at least three women on the Far South Side may have been solved after DNA evidence linked their slayings to the same man, police...
At Urban Prep, a big moment and a big deal
Urban Prep is big on ritual. Every time one of the high school's seniors gained college acceptance, he swapped out his red tie for a striped red-and-gold one -- until...
Dr. Harold Laufman, 1912-2010: Celebrated Chicago surgeon
In 1951, Dr. Harold Laufman saved the life of a frozen woman. Police had found the 23-year-old woman lying in a Chicago alley in below-freezing temperatures. When she was taken...
John Bertacchi, impassioned teacher during civil rights movement, dies at 83
As the civil rights movement raged outside his classroom window, John Bertacchi spent his weekends taking his students on trips throughout Chicago in hopes that they would experience the history....