Orland Park Police say a 56-year-old Park Forest man, who previously looked after a pre-teen girl when her family lived in that village, has been charged with stalking her in Orland Park.
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March 31st, 2011 by bmaloney
Wisconsin’s Republican leaders are taking the same confident and bullish approach to implementing their divisive collective bargaining law that they took to passing it, suggesting they may ignore a judge’s warning there would be consequences for moving ahead while challenges to the law are pending.
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March 31st, 2011 by dmiller
The Chicago Police Department is investigating allegations of sexual assault involving two North Side officers, police said Wednesday night.
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March 31st, 2011 by jbrown
A Libertyville man has been arrested on arson charges in relation to four fires police say he set in the village last week.
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March 30th, 2011 by dmiller
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March 30th, 2011 by bmaloney
Sally Katona-King remembered for compassion toward disadvantaged Sally Katona-King’s friends found tragic irony in her death: A woman who dedicated her life to helping the disadvantaged and downtrodden died because someone coveted an expensive cellphone.
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March 30th, 2011 by bmaloney
Chicago public school students are being required to attend classes June 15 to make up for one of the days that schools were closed because of the blizzard.
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March 29th, 2011 by bmaloney
Rosie O’Donnell, a multiple Emmy winner for “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” and former co-host of “The View,” will help fill the void at Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios on the Near West Side when Winfrey retires her nationally syndicated TV program after 25 seasons in May.
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March 29th, 2011 by jbrown
A fleeing robber knocked down a 68-year-old woman Monday afternoon at a Lincoln Park CTA ‘L’ stop, injuring the woman.
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March 29th, 2011 by admin
No charges will be filed in the alleged assault of an Arab-American filmmaker who claimed he was the victim of a hate crime when he was beaten after walking into a party in Fairfield, Iowa.
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March 28th, 2011 by admin
Bears fans can now add one more item to their arsenals: a vanity license plate.
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March 28th, 2011 by dmiller
Crain’s reports: Filming of Warner Bros. Pictures’ next Superman movie — “Superman: Man of Steel” — will take place in the Chicago area over two or three months starting in August, industry sources tell Crain’s, with production centered in far west suburban Plano
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March 28th, 2011 by jbrown
A man was found dead, an apparent gunshot victim, on a South Side street late Saturday night, police said.
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March 27th, 2011 by jbrown
Caterpillar Inc., suggesting that it could shift jobs out of Illinois , is prodding its home state to cut government spending and roll back tax.
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March 26th, 2011 by dmiller
Below freezing temperatures and smokey logs crackling over an open fire provided a cozy backdrop today for the Chicago Park District’s “Tap into Sap” celebration where locals can learn how their favorite pancake topper travels from tree to breakfast table.
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March 26th, 2011 by admin
Two people were shot early Saturday in the Park Manor neighborhood on the South Side.
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March 26th, 2011 by admin
If a nuclear reactor were to melt down in Illinois , the state has enough potassium iodide on hand to distribute to residents living within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency said Friday. …
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March 25th, 2011 by admin
Melissa Calusinski went with police voluntarily for questioning after the January 2009 death of a toddler at the Lincolnshire day care center where she worked, a Lake County judge ruled today.
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March 25th, 2011 by bmaloney
Federal and state nuclear experts will undergo questioning from Illinois’ two U.S. senators at a forum in Chicago today.
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March 25th, 2011 by bmaloney
The nation’s top aviation official says he’s suspended a control tower supervisor while investigating why no controller was available to aid two planes — one from Chicago — that landed at Washington’s Reagan airport earlier this week.
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March 24th, 2011 by dmiller