"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

EPA pledges to review chromium in tap water

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:44 PM PST

The nation's top environmental regulator on Tuesday promised to complete a scientific review of hexavalent chromium by summer and consider ordering cities to start testing for the toxic metal in tap water.

State attorney general sends warning on crib bumpers

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 05:16 PM PST

The Illinois attorney general's office is warning parents not to use crib bumper pads in nurseries because they pose suffocation and strangulation hazards for babies.

Watchdog: Ban City Hall gifts

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:48 PM PST

Report reveals some employees accepted sports tickets, golf outings beyond set dollar limit

The recommendation comes in a study released Tuesday that found Chicago Department of Transportation employees regularly accepted gifts — including meals, party invitations, sports tickets and golf outings — from contractors with city business.

Jimmy John's pulls sprouts after salmonella probe

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:03 PM PST

10 thoughts on Bears' big win

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:43 PM PST

Special teams coach preached patience all season, and it paid off with a breakthrough performance by Devin Hester, who set an NFL record in the Bears' division-clinching win over Minnesota. Brad Biggs talks about that and nine other thoughts on the victory.

3 charged in Chicago Heights sandwich shop slaying

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:27 PM PST

Canadian National fined $250K over crossing delays

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:19 PM PST

Daley: Dad was better mayor

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:30 PM PST

START treaty passes a hurdle

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:01 PM PST

The Senate votes to bring the nuclear-arms treaty with Russia to the floor for a final vote. Eleven Republicans join with 56 Democrats to pass a cloture motion, 67-28.

The strategic nuclear arms treaty passed a key procedural hurdle on Tuesday when the Senate voted to bring the weapons pact between the United States and Russia to the floor of the Senate for a final vote.

American yanks fares from Orbitz

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:15 PM PST

Chicago-based Orbitz stopped selling American Airlines' tickets today after a Cook County judge allowed the airline to yank all content from the online travel giant. The move could shake up the travel industry

U.S. census shows 10% growth; GOP gains an edge

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 10:45 PM PST

Republican-leaning Texas will gain four seats in the next Congress while Democratic-leaning states will lose some. Overall, 12 seats, affecting 18 states, will shift. California adds no seats, in the first time in the state's history.

WASHINGTON — New census data show GOP-dominated Texas will gain four seats in the next Congress while traditionally Democratic-leaning states in the Midwest and Northeast will lose representation. The statistics released by the Census Bureau on Tuesday revealed an overall pattern of continued migration from northern states toward the Sunbelt.

Watchdog: Ban City Hall gifts

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:45 AM PST

CTA gets express bus grant

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 10:26 PM PST

Blogger gets 33 months for threatening Ill. judges

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:55 AM PST

Illinois to lose 1 of 19 congressional seats

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:53 AM PST

Ryan family blasts 'heartless' ruling

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:33 PM PST

Ex-Gov. George Ryan is "devastated" by a federal judge's decision not to release him from prison early so he can be with his wife who is dying from cancer, his family said today.

UN buildings evacuated over suspicious odor

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 10:09 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. security officials evacuated the buildings where the Security Council and the General Assembly had been scheduled to meet because of a suspicious odor apparently caused by a gas leak in the basement, U.N. officials said.

The Fast Fix: Michele Bachmann for Senate? (The Newsroom)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:30 AM PST

The Newsroom - Could Minnesota's Rep. Michele Bachmann, a tea party favorite, make a successful run for Senate?
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FCC set to adopt net neutrality rules

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 04:49 PM PST

The regulations would prohibit phone and cable companies that provide high-speed Internet service from blocking access to any legal content, applications or services.

Federal officials are set to enact the first broad regulations covering high-speed Internet access amid a heated debate about whether the rules would preserve the online world or destroy it.

Man charged with trafficking girlfriend for sex

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:22 PM PST