Rains to north swelling 2 rivers
Rainwater that swamped Wisconsin in recent days has begun to make its way downriver into Illinois, leaving towns along the Des Plaines and Fox Rivers bracing for a surge expected...
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Baked city begs for a breeze
Like a sweaty stranger who sidles up too close in an airless waiting room, a heat wave settled in over the weekend in the Chicago area, forcing people to escape...
End draws near for no-kill shelter
Pat Klimo paused in the living room of her Ringwood home, from which she has run a "no kill" animal shelter for more than 15 years, and shook her head...
Republican legislator set to switch parties
A Republican state legislator from Schaumburg plans to announce Tuesday that he is switching parties, which would add to the Democratic majority in the Illinois House. "After being in the...
English-only law returns to spotlight
Fierce opposition to a proposed English-only ordinance in Carpentersville continued Tuesday night as residents voiced concerns that it would cause legal problems and force businesses out of town. Reviving part...
Off the deep end, for a summer job
Tiffini Owens sliced into the deep end of the pool at Whitney Young Magnet High School on Saturday morning, and after several seconds at the bottom, came up empty-handed. The...
It’s decision day in council runoffs
Mayor Richard Daley won re-election in February, but Tuesday's runoff election will determine how many friendly faces he can rely on in the City Council over the next four years....
No signals in past of mom held in slaying
A woman accused of fatally beating her 5-year-old daughter had completed an intense 18-month probation program for retail theft without raising any red flags involving her children, court records show....
`There are secrets in the house. We don’t tell.’
As Melanie Beltran lay dying on the floor, her 5-year-old body covered in bruises, her mother ordered her six other children to clean up the house. The police were coming....
Raid yields $1 million in marijuana
An investigation into $2 million worth of marijuana found Friday in a home in unincorporated Northfield Township led to a raid early Saturday on an "indoor marijuana farm" in the...