Two teens were charged today with the break-in of an auto in the Bronzeville neighborhood that was viewed by a Chicago police officer monitoring a POD security camera. On Wednesday at about 7:40 p.m., a police officer monitoring a POD security camera at Chicago Police Headquarters witnessed two youths breaking into a vehicle parked on the 3700 block of South State Street, according to a police news release.

The Big Ten released its full basketball schedule Thursday and now the piece-by-piece unveiling of Illinois ‘ 2010-11 slate is complete. The schedule includes an 11 a.m.

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A male victim was found shot late Wednesday after police broke up a large street fight on the South Side in the Woodlawn neighborhood.

J’mme Love was one of 1,200 Chicagoans who had some role in the organized mayhem that Transformers 3 brought to Chicago streets during the past month of filming. But Love, a 19-year-old from West Garfield Park who worked as a camera intern on the set of the movie, may have been the most enthusiastic.

Police at the scene of an accident where two officers and a driver were sent to local hospitals. (Eric Clark/ For the Tribune) Three people were injured this morning when a police squad car responding to a report of a man with a gun collided with another vehicle at a South Side intersection.

Jennifer Seidner’s hero is her grandmother. “She’s 90 years old and she still works at home as a seamstress,” Seidner said about Lonia Mosak. In 1941, Mosak and her family were taken from their homes outside Warsaw, Poland, and relocated to a Jewish ghetto

A worst fear of first responders was realized early Saturday when members of the Antioch and Wilmot, Wis., fire departments arrived at the scene of a fatal crash and realized the man inside the vehicle was one of their own. Eric Norden, 30, was a part-time firefighter and paramedic in Antioch and also worked full-time in Salem, Wis

When Rod Blagojevich appeared on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” Monday, the comedic host didn’t know whether to congratulate him or tell him he’s sorry following his conviction last week on one of the 24 charges he faced in his corruption trial. The disgraced former governor’s response: “Twenty-three down, one to go.” Monday night’s appearance on Jon Stewart’s program was the latest in his post-trial media blitz, which has included other national television appearances on NBC’s “Today Show” and “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” since he was convicted of making false statements to the FBI about his involvement in campaign fund-raising. Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich appears on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Monday (Tribune / Nuccio DiNuzzo) Nearly a year after Rod Blagojevich first appeared on “The Daily Show,” Stewart pounded the ex-governor for misleading him about the contents of wiretaps in which he called Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat “(bleeping) golden.” Last time, Blagojevich told Stewart that a full airing of the FBI recordings would show he was only looking out for the people of Illinois

Police are still investigating the circumstances behind a shooting last week in Kane County that left a South Korean national dead and his roommate charged with his murder.

Exelon Nuclear said in a statement Monday that the $4.6 billion planned program should create more than 4200 jobs in Illinois over the next five years. The program also includes equipment upgrades at six nuclear plants. …

CHICAGO (STMW) – The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland was never built to last forever, but Holocaust survivors and others know the vital importance of making sure this sacred site remains permanent. That’s why an Illinois …

New laws just signed into the books in Illinois up the requirement for solar energy power collection and also let homeowners more easily install solar panels.

Five Great Lakes states laid out the broad strokes of their argument to close Chicago area shipping locks during a hearing today in federal court in Chicago , kicking off a legal showdown to stop the feared Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan. Today’s three-hour hearing was designed to set legal and jurisdictional groundwork that will be a part of a three-day hearing beginning Sept.

Despite Grandstand cancellations and stormy August heat, Illinois State Fair attendance this year was about 5 percent higher than last year.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois is filing a federal lawsuit challenging the Illinois Eavesdropping Act that criminalizes recording public conversations without the consent of all parties. The ACLU claims that police …

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Chicago ‘s Adler Planetarium is launched against 20 other institutions in a new space race: Seeking the right to pay $28.8 million for one of the three soon-to-be-retired space shuttles. Adler sees its qualifications as obvious.

A Gurnee police officer Sunday night shot and injured a 37-year-old man when he refused to put down a knife, authorities said today.

HUNTER, N.Y. — Authorities have released the name of the 19-year-old college student from Illinois who died in a fall from a cliff while hiking in the Catskill Mountains