Local residents help push brisk sales of Powerball tickets
For years, Danielle Harris' dad bought Powerball tickets every day. It's a fond memory she has of him, she said, because he recently passed away. So when Harris saw a...
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Cupich focuses on immigration, schools in first City Club of Chicago address
Archbishop Blase Cupich used his first address before the City Club of Chicago to reiterate his call for immigration reform, discuss a nascent Catholic school reorganization effort and reflect on...
Sister shocked that U. of I. student knew who lured him to fatal robbery
Julieta LaMalfa's mind raced Tuesday afternoon as news reports poured in three days after her brother's body was found downstate and just hours after two suspects stood in a Champaign...
In Illinois, concealed carry of guns has quiet first year; expansion sought
Keith Hearn was getting out of his car in front of his home in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood when, as he tells it, police pulled up and told him he...
Area runners brave brutal temperatures
Tom Camacho clocked his 398th straight day of running outdoors on a frigid February morning. He shuffled across patches of ice and hopped over drifts of snow along the lakefront...
Random Acts of Flowers brings smiles to Chicago hospitals, senior centers
Cathy Palivos sorts through a massive box of scarlet roses with deft fingers. "See here," she says, pressing the pad of her thumb against the rose. "Always check to see...
Chicago slated to have new car-sharing service this spring
A new car-sharing service modeled after Airbnb could be coming to Chicago as soon as this spring. The pilot program, tentatively called NeighborCar, connects drivers to car owners willing to...
Community college to create fracking degree program
A southwestern Illinois community college has received the go-ahead to create a petroleum drilling technology, or fracking, program. Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, Ill., will enroll its first students this...
Thousands attend 10th annual anti-abortion rally in the Loop
Thousands of people gathered Sunday in the Loop at Federal Plaza for an anti-abortion march just days before the anniversary of the court decision that legalized the procedure in the...
On MLK birthday, Chicago 8th-graders rally for justice
Dozens of middle school students led a march Thursday night from a Near North Side school to the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center to protest police brutality and what...