"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Arrow Lumber banned from doing city business

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:21 PM PST

City posts announcement the same day Tribune publishes story about Arrow Lumber

City officials made public the permanent debarment of Arrow Lumber on Monday, the same day a report was published in the Tribune detailing the company's lucrative contracts with the city, despite the owner's admission in 2007 that he'd participated in a scheme to defraud taxpayers.

Obama announces tax deal with GOP

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:27 PM PST

A tentative agreement would temporarily preserve the Bush-era tax cuts for all and extend unemployment benefits for 13 months.

President Obama proposed a compromise on the thorny political issue of tax cuts on Monday, describing a tentative agreement that would extend all of the George W. Bush-era reductions set to expire the end of this year and continue unemployment benefits for 13 months.

U.S. denounces WikiLeaks' release of overseas sites

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 10:00 PM PST

Making the list public has threatened national security, officials say. Named are vaccine makers, undersea communications cables and mines that supply key metals.

U.S. officials on Monday denounced a WikiLeaks posting that catalogues hundreds of crucial overseas facilities that, if attacked by terrorists, could harm American interests — including vaccine makers, undersea communications cables and mines that supply key metals.

Tax amnesty nets state $82 million more than expected

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:05 PM PST

State gets about $82 million more than it expected from tax amnesty program

— Illinois got a holiday boost when its tax amnesty program brought in more money than anticipated, one of the few bright lights in a grim financial year for state government.

Woman missing in car-crash mystery

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:23 PM PST

Rescuers searched snowy fields in LaSalle's County's rural Brookfield Township looking for Tanya Shannon, a mother of four thought to be missing after a one-car crash that killed her husband.

Doctors tell Elizabeth Edwards she has a few weeks to live

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 03:11 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Edwards is gravely ill and doctors have told her she only has weeks to live, according to a family friend who is among those who have gathered with Edwards at her North Carolina home.

Tax amnesty nets state $82 million more than expected

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:40 PM PST

Bid for ballot questions on parking, police fizzles

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:26 PM PST

Consumer Reports rates AT&T worst carrier

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 12:35 PM PST

WikiLeaks releases sites called key to U.S. security

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 02:51 PM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a disclosure of some of the most sensitive information revealed yet by WikiLeaks, the website has released a secret cable listing sites worldwide that the U.S. considers critical to its national security.

Arrow Lumber banned from doing city business

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:47 PM PST

Obama calls for tax-cut deal

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 10:21 PM PST

Speaking in North Carolina, the president also urges an extension of unemployment benefits. A spokesman says a compromise on the tax issue could come in the next few days.

President Obama on Monday called for an agreement to extend middle-class tax cuts and urged an extension of unemployment insurance benefits as well.

Chicago terrorism trial on track for February start

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 08:59 AM PST

Preckwinkle vows sales tax hike repeal

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:32 PM PST

New Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, moments after being sworn in today, pledged to eliminate the remaining half-cent-on-the-dollar sales tax increase by January 2013.

Supreme Court will hear Wal-Mart sex-bias case

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 08:41 AM PST

The Supreme Court agrees to take up two cases of interest to corporate America: whether a sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart can proceed as a class action, and whether courts can put limits on carbon emissions from power plants.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two major appeals from corporate America seeking to block mass lawsuits, one involving a huge sex-discrimination suit against Wal-Mart and the other a massive global warming suit brought against several of the nation's top power producers.

Ex-football star, broadcaster Don Meredith dies

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 05:03 PM PST

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith has died in Santa Fe after suffering a brain hemorrhage and lapsing into a coma on Sunday. He was 72.

Pilot who served in Afghanistan is killed in hit-run

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 06:27 AM PST

Woman's frozen body found in Palos Park

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 04:56 AM PST

Emanuel's renter drops mayoral bid

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 01:02 PM PST

The businessman renting Rahm Emanuel's house withdrew from the Chicago mayor's race today just hours before a hearing to decide whether he could be on the ballot.

The Fast Fix: Clinton’s next move (The Newsroom)

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 05:03 AM PST

The Newsroom - After finishing up as Secretary of State, will Clinton leave politics for good -- or might she run for President again in 2016?
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