"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader


Federal grand jury indicts Loughner in Ariz. shootings

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 05:34 PM PST

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted the suspect in the deadly Arizona shooting rampage that wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

2 Chicago teachers arrested on theft charges

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 04:29 PM PST

1 accused of taking nearly $100,000 in 2 years

Two Chicago Public Schools teachers were arrested this week and charged with felony theft and other crimes for allegedly stealing tuition fees, vendor payments and PTA funds for personal use, police said.

Chico wins police union endorsement for mayor

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 04:15 PM PST

City's culture guru leaving amid rift with Daley

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 03:59 PM PST

Boundlessly creative, a champion of new ideas and a tireless advocate for the arts, Lois Weisberg will end her long tenure as one of the most influential women to ever serve in local government when she leaves her position as the city's commissioner of cultural affairs at the end of this month.

The Challenger disaster: Where were you? (The Newsroom)

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 03:30 PM PST

FILE--File picture from January 28, 1986, shows the explosion of space shuttle Challenger over Cap Canaveral/Florida. The space shuttle with seven astronauts onboard explodet 74 seconds after launch in 16 km height. All occupants were killed. (AP Photo/handout)The Newsroom - On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger blasted off with six astronauts and one schoolteacher. Seventy-three seconds into the launch, an external fuel tank detached and tore apart, creating a huge fireball that enveloped the shuttle. Two minutes and …


Preckwinkle, Dart stalled on Cook County budget cuts

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 03:25 PM PST

GOP-led House votes to repeal health care law

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 03:16 PM PST

The effort fulfills a pledge Republicans made to voters in the 2010 campaign. The bill is likely to fail in the Senate.

The Republican-led House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal the 10-month-old health reform law, a symbolic rebuke of President Obama's signature legislative accomplishment.

Cook County ethics chairman resigns after WGN-TV report

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 02:30 PM PST

Cook jail's strip searches costs another $4.2 million

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 01:18 PM PST

Feds: Surge in dangerous laser pointings at airplanes

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 12:04 PM PST

More than 100 incidents occurred at Los Angeles International Airport last year in which the safety of planes was put at risk by people pointing at them with lasers, and nearly as many incidents at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, federal officials said Wednesday.

2 CPS teachers charged with stealing from schools, PTA

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 04:46 PM PST

A Chicago Public Schools teacher was arrested Tuesday and charged with felony theft, official misconduct and money laundering for allegedly stealing tuition fees and PTA funds for personal use, police said.

Inspectors: Animal shelter let dozens of strays die

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 12:20 PM PST

Dog rescue facility had been cited for sanitation, license issues

It may never be known how a woman who devoted her life to putting "an end to the unnecessary deaths of innocent creatures" could have allowed about two dozen stray animals to die on her watch, as authorities allege.

4 Chicago radio stations get new owners

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 11:33 AM PST

Mom of slain girl: 'I believe there is justice'

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 01:30 PM PST

Minutes after returning home with her brother late on a summer night, 8-year-old Mya Lyons was savagely beaten with a lockbox, choked and then repeatedly stabbed, prosecutors said today as the girl's father was ordered held without bail for her murder.

Ice keeps Chicagoans on alert; below-zero wind chills coming

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 10:37 AM PST

Bill Brennwald watched a man slip twice on the ice on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Wacker Drive this morning.

Starbucks letting customers pay with cell phones

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 04:24 AM PST

Packers fans and sex-crazed turkeys

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 10:40 AM PST

They've been terrorized by sexually crazed turkeys

John Kass: With Sunday's Bears-Packers game just a few days away, it's natural that some troublemakers will try to stoke the old animosities between Bears and Packers fans.

Emanuel wants sales tax broadened for luxury services

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 02:40 PM PST

Vrdolyak reports to prison

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 09:30 AM PST

Former Chicago Ald. Edward Vrdolyak reported to federal prison in Terre Haute this morning, Bureau of Prisons officials confirmed.

Chicago prepares to host Hu Jintao

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 08:35 AM PST

As China's president began his state visit in Washington, Chicago officials, supporters and protesters prepared to welcome him here Thursday.