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Prosecutors: Girl, 17, used text messages to set up man in fatal shooting

December 24, 2018 at 1:01 p.m.

A 17-year-old girl who police initially believed was a victim of a shooting that also left a man dead has been charged with his murder, prosecutors said today.Britany Watson, of...

Mary Lee Leahy, 1940-2012

December 24, 2018 at 12:56 p.m.

Mary Lee Leahy always fought what she thought was the good fight, even when she knew she might lose. One of the prominent Illinois attorney's greatest triumphs was a 1990...

By The Hand Club For Kids to build new facility

December 25, 2018 at 10:15 a.m.

With a mission to help Chicago children succeed in school as well as in life, the By The Hand Club For Kids has many times outgrown its multiple venues. This...

Autopsy: Man who fell down hotel smokestack died of trauma

May 16, 2019 at 12:06 p.m.

An autopsy today found that a man who plunged down a smokestack on the roof of a Michigan Avenue hotel died from injuries suffered in the fall, and his death...

Autopsy: Man who fell down hotel smokestack died of trauma

December 24, 2018 at 12:54 p.m.

An autopsy today found that a man who plunged down a smokestack on the roof of a Michigan Avenue hotel died from injuries suffered in the fall, and his death...

Fledgling actor dies after fall down chimney of Michigan Avenue hotel

December 25, 2018 at 9:33 a.m.

Nicholas Wieme loved making short films when he was growing up in a small town in Minnesota, a theatrical passion that would lead him to Chicago. On Wednesday evening, the...

Chicagoan gets near-decade-long sentence in Somalia terror plot

December 25, 2018 at 9:11 a.m.

A federal judge sentenced a Chicago man Tuesday to nearly 10 years in prison for planning to wage jihad in Somalia for a terrorist group connected to al-Qaida, saying his...

Chicago man gets 10 years in overseas terrorism plot

May 16, 2019 at 12:05 p.m.

A Chicago man was sentenced today to nearly 10 years in prison for planning to travel to Somalia in 2010 to wage jihad for a terrorist group connected to al-Qaida....

After years of cancellations and downsizing, corporate holiday parties are back. Several surveys of human resource departments nationwide indicate an uptick in planned office holiday parties. This year nearly three-fourths...

Chicago man gets 10 years in overseas terrorism plot

December 24, 2018 at 12:52 p.m.

A Chicago man was sentenced today to nearly 10 years in prison for planning to travel to Somalia in 2010 to wage jihad for a terrorist group connected to al-Qaida....

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Prosecutors: Girl, 17, used text messages to set up man in fatal shooting

Mary Lee Leahy, 1940-2012

By The Hand Club For Kids to build new facility

Autopsy: Man who fell down hotel smokestack died of trauma

Autopsy: Man who fell down hotel smokestack died of trauma

Fledgling actor dies after fall down chimney of Michigan Avenue hotel

Chicagoan gets near-decade-long sentence in Somalia terror plot

Chicago man gets 10 years in overseas terrorism plot

Office parties back on

Chicago man gets 10 years in overseas terrorism plot