"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Keeping tabs on aging CTA bridges

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 03:34 PM PST

Northwestern University helps transit agency keep tabs on strength of aging spans

The CTA's trains operate across more than 500 bridges, many nearly a century old. The agency added braces to the bridge at Devon and Sheridan on the Red Line last year, and a team from Northwestern University added sensors this summer to measure the strain from daily train traffic.

$20,000 reward in slayings of officer, ex-CHA cop

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 04:30 PM PST

Slain SWAT officer recalled as always 'coming to the rescue'

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:21 PM PST

2 shot and wounded near Truman College in Uptown

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:10 PM PST

Driver hurt as Brown Line train strikes vehicle on NW Side

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 01:59 PM PST

China seeks emergency meeting on North Korea

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 10:00 PM PST

Chinese leaders, stung by accusations that they haven't done enough to rein in North Korea, call for an international summit, but U.S. and South Korea remain noncommittal.

China called Sunday for an emergency international meeting to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, but the United States and South Korea, engaged in large-scale war games nearby, appeared initially cool to the idea.

Unique transplant program caters to Hispanics

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 12:38 PM PST

A unique transplant program in Chicago reports a big jump over the past five years and doctors say the reason is clear.

No more ground workers with wands

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 10:00 PM PST

American Airlines is rolling out the technology at O'Hare

American American has rolled out technology that allows pilots to park jets without help from marshalers, the wand-waving people who direct planes to airport gates and away from errant baggage carts.

Thousands of bird carcasses tied to invasive mussels

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 10:00 PM PST

Scientists suggest invasive mussels in the Great Lakes may be responsible for the deaths of thousands of migratory birds

The hunt is on in the upper reaches of Lake Michigan to count what's believed to be thousands of bird carcasses that have washed ashore this fall — a staggering toll blamed on the disruptive powers of invasive species that have taken root in the Great Lakes.

Man dies after truck tire explodes while being inflated

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 08:51 AM PST

Police: Pennsylvania couple hid 5 children from society

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:33 AM PST

YORK, Pa. (AP) — They had no birth certificates, schooling, immunizations or evidence of medical care — nothing whatsoever to prove their existence.

Cops question parolee in death of police officer

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 06:04 AM PST

Chicago police were questioning "a person of interest" in the shooting deaths of Officer Michael Flisk and a former Chicago Housing Authority officer whose car had been burglarized, sources told the Tribune.

Tax breaks for employer health plans targeted again

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 11:51 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Job-based health care benefits could wind up on the chopping block if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans get serious about cutting the deficit.

Person questioned in officer's death

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 08:50 PM PST

Parolee lives across from site of Friday shooting that killed technician, car owner

Chicago police were questioning "a person of interest" in the shooting deaths of Officer Michael Flisk and a former Chicago Housing Authority officer whose car had been burglarized, sources told the Tribune.

Black Friday sales edge up just 0.3 percent

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 08:40 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — Shoppers crowded stores on Black Friday but spent just a little more than last year on the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, according to data released Saturday by a research firm.

5-year-old boy dies in South Side house fire

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 06:22 PM PST

Child wouldn't leave grandma, his uncle says

Five-year-old Christiand Densmore didn't want to leave his grandmother, who had a hard time walking, even as flames and smoke filled her South Side apartment.