Hail of bullets kills cop serving warrant
After trying for 10 minutes to cajole the owner of a dilapidated Northwest Side apartment building to open his door and face arrest, Chicago Police Officer Donald Marquez finally swung...
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Stephens whips horse racing-casino deal
Frustrated with his inability to get a casino up and running in his town, Rosemont Mayor Donald Stephens is trying to jump-start the project by making it more lucrative for...
$1.5 billion pot brims with secretive pork
Aided by Gov. George Ryan, Illinois lawmakers have commandeered nearly $1.5 billion in just three years to bankroll a secretive, taxpayer-funded spending machine for pet projects that have benefited cronies,...
State schools chief resigns over tie to brokerage
Illinois Supt. of Education Ernest Wish resigned Friday after state officials said he refused to end a consulting agreement with a Chicago insurance brokerage firm whose owner was charged with...
DUI offender suspect in crash
State police were investigating Monday whether a Niles man who wasn't supposed to be driving until 2010 was behind the wheel of a car that crashed into a mini-van, killing...
Fraud, ID theft finance terror
As the U.S. government moves to choke the financial network of terrorists and their supporters, law-enforcement authorities are focusing on a growing and seemingly easy source of money for terrorists:...
States check truckers against FBI watch list
In an expansion of efforts to secure the nation's trucking system against a possible terrorist attack, federal authorities said Thursday they have directed state officials to help ensure that truckers...
Bin Laden associate is detained
French government officials confirmed Monday that one of the suspects being held by the FBI for questioning in the nation's worst terrorist attack is considered a well-known associate of Osama...
Trucker in big spill bought ID, state says
The trucker whose overturned tractor trailer shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway this week is an illegal immigrant who paid $4,000 for the documents of a dead man, prosecutors said...
Trucker’s license probed in spill
The truck driver whose overturned tractor-trailer shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway on Wednesday had been issued an Illinois driver's license about two years ago in the name of a...