Woman convicted of trying to use city funds for 'booze-cruise'

A former project coordinator for a Chatham senior citizen center was found guilty Wednesday of attempting to use city funds earmarked for the elderly to buy $544 worth of food for a “booze-cruise” bus Read More

Taste of Chicago in danger

At City Hall, there's a call for City Council hearings on the question of whether Taste of Chicago should continue Read More

Cardinal Bergoglio new pope, Francis

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been elected the 266th pope. Bergoglio is 76-years-old. Read More

City Council casts 'wider net,' expands gun offender registry

Chicago's "gun offender registry" would be broadened to include anyone who commits a violent crime with a firearm, thanks to a "wider net" cast by the City Council on Wednesda Read More

More City Council farce

At City Hall, it's a case of Democrats acting like Democrats. First, nine liberal aldermen announced their progressive reform caucus, and now 10 have announced their own reform caucus and have pr Read More

Actor Ed Asner taken by ambulance from one-man show at Gary theater

Award-winning actor and activist Ed Asner cut short his performance Tuesday at Marquette Pavilion in Gary after having difficulty speaking, according to people who attended the sold-out show. Read More

Terra Foundation sells space in Mag Mile building for $86M

The Terra Foundation for American Art announced on Wednesday that it has sold the retail space at 664 North Michigan Avenue, which until 2004 housed the Terra Museum of American Art, to New York-based Read More

Former Bear suing moving company over lost memorabilia

A former Pro Bowl linebacker for the Chicago Bearsis suing a local moving company, claiming "irreplaceable" sports memorabilia were lost when he moved from Vernon Hills to Chicago, a claim t Read More

A black man on the jury in Bill Beavers' tax fraud trial? Don't bet on it

At worse than 100 to 1, the odds of a randomly-selected jury pool in Chicago containing not a single black man might make even the most compulsive gambler cringe. Read More

Emanuel wants digital billboards at O'Hare and Midway

Three months after getting the go-ahead to put up 34 digital billboards near Chicago area expressways, Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to do the same and more at O'Hare and Midway Airports. Read More