"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Emanuel says he raised $10.6 million

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 05:18 PM PST

Google elevates co-founder Larry Page to CEO

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 04:11 PM PST

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Eric Schmidt, a technology veteran brought in as Google Inc.'s "adult supervision" a decade ago, is relinquishing the CEO job to Larry Page, one of the prodigies who co-founded the company behind the Internet's dominant gateway.

After brain injury, recovery is a lifelong process (The Newsroom)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 02:27 PM PST

The Newsroom - STEPHANIE PAPPAS LiveScience Senior Writer LiveScience.com As plans progress to move U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) from Tucson's University Medical Center to a rehabilitation hospital in Houston, brain injury experts warn that her road to recovery is long and uncertain. …

Chinese president meets with Daley, business leaders

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 05:30 PM PST

Just after 6:30 p.m. Chicago time, Mayor Richard Daley and his wife Maggie met President Hu Jintao inside a Hilton Chicago ballroom, with business leaders in Chicago and from China joining them.

Alleged torture victims confront ex-cop

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 04:21 PM PST

"Jon Burge shocked me," one witness testified today at the sentencing hearing for the former Chicago cop, convicted of lying about alleged electric shock and suffocation of crime suspects.

Ads coming to bathroom mirrors at O'Hare

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 11:55 AM PST

Emanuel pitches Red Line extension, renovations

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 11:19 AM PST

Cold blast arrives tonight

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 10:11 PM PST

Obama's approval rating surges at midpoint of term

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 10:22 AM PST

Several polls note a rise in public approval for Obama. The bump comes after his Tucson shooting speech and a productive lame-duck congressional session.

President Obama is enjoying a surge in public approval as he marks the midpoint of his first term, an uptick that follows a productive lame-duck congressional session and his well-received speech on the shooting tragedy in Tucson.

Springfield mayor's death ruled a suicide

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 10:25 AM PST

A coroner's jury has ruled Springfield Mayor Timothy Davlin's death a suicide.

Republicans in House now get their chance to build something

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 10:23 AM PST

The House approves a resolution to start working up alternatives to the healthcare law that Democrats passed last year. It's an opportunity for Republicans to convince a skeptical public that they are ready to govern, rather than simply obstruct.

When he was leader of an enervated Republican minority in the House, John Boehner was fond of saying the members of his caucus weren't "legislators." They were "communicators."

House GOP passes resolution to repeal healthcare law

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 10:28 AM PST

The measure isn't expected to pass in the Senate, but it's sure to cause a partisan battle on its way to a vote.

House Republicans passed a largely symbolic resolution Wednesday to repeal the nation's new healthcare law, fulfilling a top campaign promise and setting the stage for a renewed battle in the Senate.

Woman kidnapped as baby: Finding family 'a dream'

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 03:10 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman who was kidnapped as a infant 23 years ago says finding her real mother "felt like a dream."

Chicago to be headquarters for Obama 2012 campaign

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 08:52 AM PST

President Barack Obama, as expected, has chosen Chicago as the headquarters for his 2012 re-election campaign, a White House official said today.

FBI arrests more than 100 suspected mobsters

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 04:22 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal authorities orchestrated one of the biggest Mafia takedowns in FBI history Thursday, charging 127 suspected mobsters and associates in the Northeast with murders, extortion and other crimes spanning decades.

LIFE exclusive: Rare and unseen photos of JFK’s inauguration (The Newsroom)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 06:36 AM PST

The Newsroom - Fifty years ago today, John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency of the United States, and LIFE was there. Today, LIFE is publishing the photos it took that day -- many of them never seen before.

List of Boston clergy accused of sex abuse released to the public (The Starting Point)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 05:42 AM PST

Mitchell Garabedian, left, lawyer for numerous Boston-area clergy sex abuse victims, listens to Robert Perron, right, at a news conference in Boston, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. Garabedian released a new list of Roman Catholic priests, laymen and members of religious orders accused of abusing parishioners. Perron said he was abused by a priest. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)The Starting Point - More than eight years after the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal erupted, the Archdiocese of Boston has yet to publish an official list of priests who have been credibly accused of assaulting parishioners during the past five decades. On Wednesday, an attorney for clergy sex abuse victims decided enough was enough, and released his own list of alleged abusers.

The Fast Fix: Is health-care reform in peril? (The Newsroom)

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 05:08 AM PST

The Newsroom - Will the GOP succeed in repealing health-care reform? It depends on how you look at it. The move has almost no chance legislatively. Get The Fix in your e-mail inbox! Click here to sign-up for the Morning Fix newsletter. Click …

Giffords standing on her own, headed to rehab

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 04:52 PM PST

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Less than two weeks after surviving a bullet through the brain, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords stood up and looked out the window of her hospital room Wednesday as she prepares to move to Houston to begin an arduous journey of intensive mental and physical rehabilitation.

Pepsi: Suburban cat shelter cheated in contest

Posted: 19 Jan 2011 06:45 PM PST

Soft-drink company says it found evidence of deceptive voting practices

A South Elgin woman who won $50,000 in the Pepsi Refresh Project for her cat shelter must return the money after the soft-drink company said Wednesday that it found evidence of deceptive voting practices.