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Radioactive material missing from area hospital

May 13, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

Officials are investigating how a lead-lined safe containing radioactive material went missing from a storage area at Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee, Ill. Gibb Vinson of the Illinois Emergency Management...

Residents battle to keep land state wants for south suburban airport

May 9, 2019 at 8:42 p.m.

Willis and Vivian Bramstaedt don't have big plans for retirement; they simply want to live out their remaining years on the land their family has farmed in rural Beecher since...

Heaps of trouble for south suburbs

May 13, 2019 at 4:02 p.m.

The mountain of trash was enough to stop visitors in their tracks: wood and concrete, stacks of rotting tires, rusted auto parts, tin cans, and several cracked boat hulls stuck...

Hawks parade packs downtown

August 22, 2021 at 10:21 p.m.

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....

Blackhawks take Stanley Cup on Chicago victory lap

August 22, 2021 at 10:22 p.m.

With Blackhawks players acting as tour guides, the beer-soaked Stanley Cup on Thursday took a victory lap unlike any the city has ever seen. Wherever hockey's Holy Grail went, adulation...

Small, impoverished town recovering from tornado

August 22, 2021 at 10:20 p.m.

Jacqueline Thomas was sitting in the living room of her mobile home watching her grandson play a video game when the wind snatched off the roof and the rain poured...

Overtime win way overdue for fans

August 22, 2021 at 10:21 p.m.

The Blackhawks brought the gleaming silver Stanley Cup to Chicago on Wednesday night, capping a remarkable comeback from irrelevance in a city that was merely looking for the right moment...

Beach bacteria battle goes high-tech

June 17, 2018 at 8:25 p.m.

So much for the old warning flag on a stick. Confronting an almost unwinnable battle against E. coli and other bacteria on public beaches, Chicago and some of its suburbs...

New Trier sophomore injured in hit-run, classmate charged

August 22, 2021 at 10:09 p.m.

After months of practice, Sarah Goone planned to perform in front of her friends and family Saturday afternoon as part of New Trier Township High School's spring theater festival. But...

Are farmers cooling Chicago’s summers?

May 22, 2019 at 4:05 a.m.

Amid one of the warmest springs on record in Chicago, and renewed worries about our warming planet, how is it that late summer days across the Midwest are cooling? The...

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