"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Taste of Chicago could get admission fee, naming rights

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 04:51 PM PST

City lost more than $6.9 million on 7 festivals the last 3 years

Making a profit on Taste of Chicago and the city's six other annual festivals could prove difficult for a private company willing to take on the challenge, according to city documents provided to firms preparing bids.

Expedia hides American flights in support of Orbitz

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 04:48 PM PST

Online ticket agency shows solidarity with Orbitz in battle with carrier

Expedia Inc. is hiding pricing information for American Airlines flights on its Web sites in a display of solidarity with Chicago-based Orbitz Worldwide Inc., which is enmeshed in a contract dispute with the nation's No. 3 carrier.

Woman gets life in prison for Cicero fire that killed 2

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 04:33 PM PST

Boyfriend's mother, 6-year-old brother died in blaze

A Cicero woman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for setting fire to a house and killing her boyfriend's mother and his 6-year-old brother.

Meeks withdraws from mayor's race

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 02:58 PM PST

Snow forecast on Christmas Eve, weekend

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 01:15 PM PST

Skype may offer credit vouchers due to outage

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 11:19 AM PST

Roof in deadly fire called 'defective'

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 06:40 PM PST

Owner faced code violations, fines after laundry business failed

In 2007, as the building's owners struggled to make payments on a $60,000 loan on the South Shore property, the city cited them for 14 separate building code violations, records show. The roof collapsed Wednesday, killing two firefighters and injuring 17.

$650K worth of counterfeit sports clothing seized

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 11:00 AM PST

Expedia hides American flights in support of Orbitz

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:28 PM PST

Cops warn of robberies targeting building rehab sites

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 11:04 AM PST

Taste of Chicago considering admission fee, naming rights

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 10:12 PM PST

N. Korea threatens nuclear retaliation if S. Korea attacks

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 04:26 AM PST

The communist regime's anger has been piqued by South Korea's staging of live-fire drills on Yeonpyeong Island, which was shelled by the North last month.

North Korea threatened Thursday to launch a "sacred" nuclear war against South Korea if it attacks, as Seoul staged military exercises that have raised already high tensions on the peninsula.

Gays who left military over 'don't ask, don't tell' to return

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 03:34 AM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — Joseph Rocha reported being cruelly hazed by Navy colleagues. Katherine Miller resigned from West Point halfway through, weary of concealing her sexual orientation. David Hall was outed by a fellow Air Force cadet and booted from the career he loved.

Corey Ankum

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 07:54 AM PST

'Leader,' devoted family man

Edward Stringer

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 07:51 AM PST

Firefighter 'loved his job'

Rogers Park man taken into custody after standoff

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 08:14 AM PST

'Real' trees banned

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 09:49 PM PST

Apartment building allows only artificial trees, residents say

High-rise resident Fran Windeler feels that an "artificial Christmas tree is just so mechanical." But that's all her apartment building will allow.

Blasts at Swiss, Chile embassies in Rome wound 2

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 09:38 AM PST

ROME (AP) — Police are checking a report of a suspicious package at the Ukrainian Embassy after a pair of package bombs exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies, wounding two people.

Election board votes to keep Emanuel on ballot

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 12:55 PM PST

Chicago election commissioners today voted to keep Rahm Emanuel on the Feb. 22 Chicago mayoral ballot.The vote came just hours after a hearing officer recommended that the high-profile candidate be allowed to remain on the ballot.

Placebos work, even when patients are in the know, study finds

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 04:12 PM PST

In what researchers call a novel 'mind-body' therapy, most patients in a study suffering from irritable bowel syndrome reported relief after receiving pills they were told contained no real medicine.

A simple sugar pill may help treat a disease — even if patients know they're getting fake medicine.