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Judge Richard A. Posner is retiring after more than three decades on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, stepping down effective Saturday, Sept. 1, 2017.

Richard Posner announces sudden retirement from federal appeals court in Chicago

May 22, 2019 at 11:53 p.m.

Judge Richard A. Posner, one of the nation's leading appellate judges, whose acerbic wit attracted an almost cultlike following within legal circles, is retiring after more than three decades with...

Hillary Lebeb walks along the seawall in Galveston, Texas, as Hurricane Harvey intensifies in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 25, 2017.

Illinois volunteers on their way to Texas to aid Harvey relief effort

May 22, 2019 at 11:52 p.m.

As catastrophic flooding and persistent downpours ravaged Texas on Sunday in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, volunteers from the Chicago region mobilized to help. Volunteers from northern Illinois are part...

Restoration of Illinois’ oak savannas tries to reach new heights

May 22, 2019 at 11:29 p.m.

Before the farms began to stretch as far as the eye can see on the Midwestern landscape, before the fur trappers and settlers established towns along the Chicago area's rivers...

Stanley and Joyce Boim, of Jerusalem, seen here in 2004, filed a lawsuit in Chicago on May 12, 2017, against American Muslims for Palestine and Americans for Justice in Palestine Educational Foundation to collect a massive legal judgment awarded the family years ago.

Parents sue Palestinian groups to collect on massive award for son’s slaying

May 22, 2019 at 11:25 p.m.

The parents of an American-born student fatally shot by Hamas gunmen in Jerusalem in 1996 filed a lawsuit Friday against two Chicago-area Palestinian-American groups, claiming they are liable for a...

The menu at Schaller's Pump included the popular "butt steak sandwich," photographed on Aug. 30, 2012.

Schaller’s Pump, legendary Bridgeport tavern, to close after 136 years

May 22, 2019 at 11:22 p.m.

Politicians, White Sox fans and neighborhood regulars knew they could find cold drinks, good food and hospitality at Schaller's Pump in Bridgeport. For 136 years, the bar at 3714 S....

3 inmates accused of punching, beating jail officers held without bond

May 22, 2019 at 11:22 p.m.

Three men accused of punching and beating two Cook County sheriff's officers in the maximum security section of the County Jail appeared in court Sunday, where a judge ordered them...

Brian Liddell of Syracuse, N.Y., takes photos outside Fenway Park in Boston on April 26, 2017.

Fenway building boom hints at possibilities, perils for Wrigleyville

May 22, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

It's a balmy, bright spring afternoon, and Boylston Street is alive. College kids lug bags of groceries to their gleaming new apartments. Joggers trot past a busy sidewalk cafe, where...

The completed bleachers in left field before the Cubs-Mets game on May 11.

For Cubs fans, sticker shock goes with trip to Wrigley

May 22, 2019 at 11:17 p.m.

Like many Cubs fans, Nick Penze has his share of cherished memories. As a child, he met Ernie Banks at a car dealership. Later, he watched his father pencil in...

Bleacher fans arrive before the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians play on Oct. 30, 2016, in Game 5 of the World Series at Wrigley Field.

New season, new world for Cubs fans after reaching ‘mountaintop’

May 16, 2019 at 12:14 a.m.

During more than a century of springs, Cubs fans prepared for the upcoming season with hope — sometimes unfounded, other times buoyed by a promising roster — that this was...

Local science community rallies around opposition to Trump, plans march

June 5, 2018 at 1:09 p.m.

In Illinois coffee shops and theaters, scientists and science fans gather to plan a march. At government offices they fret about the appointment of Cabinet leaders who hold skeptical views...

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