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A golf cart is parked in Heritage Park in Manteno during a soccer practice on Sept.1, 2016.

Small Illinois towns drive golf cart popularity, but safety a concern

June 13, 2018 at 5:29 a.m.

The farther travelers venture into rural areas, the more likely it seems that they will see the slow vehicles rolling along the landscape. Not tractors or combines. Golf carts. The...

Extremely low monarch numbers latest downturn in 20-year decline

June 9, 2018 at 2:08 a.m.

During his slogs through Cuba Marsh Forest Preserve in northwest suburban Deer Park, designated butterfly observer Jim Peterson documented what many keen outdoors enthusiasts may have been noticing all summer....

Rayid Ghani, director of the Center for Data Science & Public Policy, said police departments can benefit from programs that use big data to, among other things, predict an officer's adverse reaction to a citizen.

U. of C. researchers use data to predict police misconduct

June 10, 2018 at 8:59 a.m.

In two Loop office buildings about eight blocks apart, a pair of University of Chicago research teams are analyzing big data to answer a thorny question that has become especially...

Bill Muir of Bio-One, a company that specializes in biohazard disinfection and decontamination, unpacks cleaning supplies and specialized gear as he and technician Vince Petronzio, right, arrives to clean up an apartment in Chicago, Wednesday, July 27, 2016, following a natural, unattended death of an individual.

Business is booming for crime-scene cleaners

June 11, 2018 at 9:10 p.m.

Bill Muir was burning out as an operations manager for a beverage company and started looking for another career. When his brother-in-law used a handgun to kill himself, Muir decided...

Children play in the water from a fire hydrant in the 600 block of North Saint Louis Avenue July 21, 2016, in the East Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Sports camps try to keep cool in steamy weather

May 22, 2019 at 10:13 p.m.

Plans for Girls in the Game camp in Chicago's Douglas Park called for outdoor basketball Thursday, but with temperatures predicted near triple digits, counselors got a little creative. They came...

Pokemon Go app gets phone-addicted teens moving — and stumbling

June 22, 2019 at 10:35 p.m.

Zak Katich sees the wild popularity of Pokemon Go as a natural outgrowth of a powerful childhood presence. As a kid, he watched the Pokemon shows and movies. He collected...

A Polar Vortex player, in blue, jumps to catch the frisbee during a game against FoG at Inwood Soccer Complex on Saturday, June 25, 2016 in Joliet. (Brandon Chew/baiduhai)

Ultimate Frisbee battles for ‘soul of the sport’

June 10, 2018 at 10:53 a.m.

From the time Frank Menendez was introduced to ultimate Frisbee in the parking lot at a Grateful Dead concert in the 1980s, the sport has made a steady ascent up...

Billy Paul, center, a jazz and soul singer best known for the No. 1 hit ballad and "Philadelphia Soul" classic "Me and Mrs. Jones," died April 24, 2016. He was 81. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-billy-paul-obit-20160424-story.html" target="_blank">Read more</a>.

Ellen Soeteber, former Tribune metro editor, dies at 66

June 10, 2018 at 12:26 p.m.

On the wall in her baiduhai office, Ellen Soeteber displayed a paraphrased quote from cultural critic Paul Fussell that read, "What people don't want you to publish is journalism....

Illinois ranks near the top of the nation in the number of vanity and specialty license plates sold. These plates, made at Macon Resources Inc. in Decatur, are seen on June 16, 2016.

Illinois drivers so vain, but not all plates get state OK

June 10, 2018 at 9:51 a.m.

Illinois is among the vainest states in the U.S. At least according to one metric: those sometimes snappy, sometimes oblique rectangles of individuality known as vanity license plates. Nearly 640,000...

Elmhurst police investigate the scene of a shooting June 9 in a parking lot at 257 E. First St.

Victim shot during attempted armed robbery in Elmhurst

May 20, 2019 at 3:47 a.m.

Elmhurst police are investigating an attempted armed robbery Thursday afternoon in which a victim was shot. The incident occurred about 1 p.m. in the parking lot at 257 E. First...

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