"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Immigration overhaul seems dead as GOP regains power

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:27 PM PST

Incoming Republican leaders have plans of their own for border and worksite enforcement. But President Obama says he still has hope for a path to citizenship for at least some illegal residents.

As Republican lawmakers take over the House and gain strength in the Senate after the new year, a decade-long drive to overhaul the immigration system and legalize some of the 11 million undocumented migrants seems all but certain to come to a halt.

Mich. man faces charges for reading wife's e-mail

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 03:08 PM PST

A Rochester Hills man who says he learned of his wife's affair by reading her e-mail on their computer faces trial Feb. 7 on felony computer misuse charges.

Villa Park man slain with mother in Ark. during Christmas visit

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 03:24 PM PST

Police: Woman's husband shot the two, then himself

A man in Baxter County, Ark., killed his wife and her adult son from Villa Park before killing himself on Christmas Eve, officials said.

Cops: $450K in drugs found on man passed out in taxi

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 03:19 PM PST

Frustrated cab driver delivered passenger to police station

A frustrated cabdriver unwittingly delivered a man carrying a bag that was allegedly filled with nearly a half-million dollars in drugs to officers at the Rogers Park District police station over the weekend.

Springfield eatery's wardrobe gives glimpse for Naperville

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 10:00 PM PST

But suburban Show-Me's will show less skin than downstate

— Tight neon pink spandex shorts with pantyhose and low-cut T-shirts or tank tops with a bold "Show-Me's" logo across the chest are what you might have expected.

A blood bank for apes

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 05:51 PM PST

Research opens the possibility of successful transfusions for gorillas

Workers at the Lincoln Park Zoo have created an international registry to record the blood types of healthy captive apes on four continents, which would make blood transfusions possible for ailing apes.

Jesse Jackson Jr.: 'Every one of us has erred'

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 03:06 PM PST

'Little Fockers,' 'True Grit' top weekend box office

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 02:02 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — "Little Fockers" was no. 1 at the box office on a weekend when Hollywood competed with Christmas gatherings and fierce snow storms in the Northeast and Southeast.

Villa Park man, two others killed in Arkansas

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:27 PM PST

Man charged with having 'mobile meth lab'

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:25 PM PST

Playboy's Hefner engaged

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 02:31 PM PST

Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner says he's gotten engaged again.

1st quarter: Bears 0, Jets 0

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 10:06 PM PST

Live updates from Soldier Field.

Blue Line back to normal after fire disruption

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:13 PM PST

Olympic documentarian dies

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 07:37 AM PST

Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan, who presented his subjects 'as people first and athletes second,' won eight Emmys and a Peabody, as well as the International Olympic Committee's Olympic Order.

Bud Greenspan, award-winning filmmaker, writer, character and, arguably, the world's No. 1 fan of the Olympics, has died. He was 84.

Bears beat Jets 38-34

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 02:33 PM PST

The Bears took an important step toward securing a first-round bye in the NFC playoffs by outlasting the New York Jets 38-34 Sunday at Soldier Field. The Bears improved to 11-4 in the high-scoring affair.

Their first Chicago Christmas

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 10:00 PM PST

Mary Schmich: This is a tale of two children, one from Haiti, one from Nepal. Their parents struggled to get them home to the United States, and this was their first Christmas here.

Egypt bus crash kills 8 American tourists

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 03:54 AM PST

A bus accident in southern Egypt on Sunday left eight American tourists dead and 21 injured, the official MENA news agency reported.

Quake shakes New Zealand

Posted: 25 Dec 2010 11:28 PM PST

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Masonry and glass rained down near post-Christmas shoppers as a magnitude 4.9 earthquake rocked Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island on Sunday.

Monster storm freezes travel on East Coast

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:38 PM PST

Woman killed in accident on the Near West Side

Posted: 26 Dec 2010 04:20 AM PST