"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Seventh-grader dies of food allergy at Chicago school

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 06:26 PM PST

Chicago Public Schools sent grief counselors to Edison Regional Gifted Center on Monday after the death of a seventh-grader who had an allergic reaction to food she ate at school.

The 10 best places for a royal stag or hen party (The Newsroom)

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 05:53 PM PST

The Newsroom - Where Prince William and fiancé Kate Middleton will stage their stag and hen parties has been the subject of much speculation.

12-year-old boy shot by elderly woman pleads guilty

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 05:00 PM PST

12-year-old threw bricks at her just before he was shot

A 12-year-old boy shot by a 68-year-old woman after he threw bricks at her last fall — as well as his 13-year-old friend who also took part in the assault — pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor charges in Cook County Juvenile Court.

2nd quarter: Bears 10, Vikings 7

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 06:17 PM PST

In addition to bad weather, the Bears are facing an old nemesis tonight. Brett Favre started for the Vikings. But in the Bears' favor: running back Adrian Peterson did not.

Group hopes new lighting boosts State Street shopping

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 01:16 PM PST

Report: Cook highway dept. a haven for loafers

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 03:44 PM PST

Officials investigate salmonella outbreak tied to Jimmy John's

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 03:00 PM PST

Workers prep field for Bears-Vikings

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 03:22 PM PST

As the Bears and Vikings prepared for tonight's game outdoors in Minnesota, snow began to fall, the leading edge of a storm threatening to dump 3 to 5 inches on the area.

Author of pedophile guide arrested on obscenity charge

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 05:37 PM PST

Sheriff Grady Judd says author of "The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure arrested' in Pueblo, Colo. after he mailed a signed copy of his book to an undercover officer.

The author of a controversial pedophile's guide that drew national outrage last month was arrested Monday at home in Colorado on a Polk County warrant for distributing obscene material in Florida.

Cocaine seized after box breaks open in Cicero street

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 12:00 PM PST

Firefighters battle blaze at West Side mosque

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 12:12 PM PST

12-year-old boy shot by elderly woman pleads guilty

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 11:35 AM PST

Fund set up to replace gifts destroyed by suburban fire

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:58 PM PST

Iconic toy still a holiday mainstay

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 05:08 PM PST

Daisy Red Ryder BB gun still a big draw during the holidays

The Daisy Red Ryder air rifle generates a strong, sentimental resonance this time of year, and it continues to post robust sales numbers, in part because of its place in the 1983 film "A Christmas Story," about one boy's obsession to get it despite warnings that "you'll shoot your eye out."

12 men arrested in suspected British terrorism plot

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 06:33 PM PST

LONDON (AP) — British police on Monday arrested a dozen men suspected of plotting a large-scale terror attack — the biggest anti-terrorist sweep since April 2009, when 12 men were detained over an alleged al-Qaida bomb plot in the northern city of Manchester.

Lunar eclipse tonight

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 07:14 AM PST

British police arrest 12 in suspected terror plot

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 02:29 AM PST

The arrests, which follow several weeks of surveillance, are the most high-profile antiterror raids in Britain since April 2009.

Police arrested 12 men Monday in early morning raids in three cities aimed at thwarting a major new terrorism plot against British targets.

Online holiday spending rises 12 percent

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 08:03 AM PST

Obama ends first two years with image-altering successes

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 10:00 PM PST

President Obama ends his first two years with image-altering successes; the next two may prove more frustrating.

President Obama is ending the first half of his term the same way he began it — with a storm of activity of impressive, even historic, dimensions. But he may look back on these two often frustrating years as the easy ones.

The Fast Fix: The top three political moments of 2010 (The Newsroom)

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 07:47 AM PST

The Newsroom - The Fast Fix looks back at the three most memorable political moments of 2010. Get The Fix in your email inbox! Click to sign-up for the Morning Fix newsletter. Click <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo. ...