"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Emanuel may go outside city for new schools CEO

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 06:23 PM PDT

Administrator in Baltimore said to be match with mayor elect's philosophy

While his handpicked education team met this week to begin figuring out how to implement Rahm Emanuel's campaign promises to fix city schools, the mayor-elect is forging ahead to find the beleaguered school district's next top executive.

U.N. approves military action, no-fly zone in Libya

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:13 PM PDT

U.S. and allied forces began preparing for military operations against Libya despite doubts the outgunned rebels can be saved.

 

Miracle-worker in the school kitchen

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:17 PM PDT

Chef Paul Boundas creates healthy meals from scratch for less than $3 per lunch — and the kids even like the food

Chef Paul Boundas creates healthy meals from scratch for thousands of Chicago-area children for less than $3 per lunch — and the kids even like the food.

House votes to cut funding to NPR

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 03:10 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Legislation to bar federal funds from being spent on National Public Radio passed in the House of Representatives on Thursday, although its ultimate prospects of becoming policy looked doubtful.

Obama coming here in April

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:35 PM PDT

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will head home to Chicago to attend an April 14 fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee, officials familiar with his plans said Thursday.

GOP wants to cut Quinn's budget by $5 billion

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:23 PM PDT

Illinois Senate Republicans call for cuts in funding for Medicaid, education, Illinois Arts Council

— Illinois Senate Republicans called Thursday for spending $5 billion less than Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn wants in his new budget, saying the state must rein in costs now to ensure the Democratic-backed income tax hike is only temporary.

Adler bolsters its bid for shuttle

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 02:15 PM PDT

Hoping to create a little last-minute hoopla for its cause, Adler Planetarium has unveiled plans for a dramatic lakefront glass pavilion that it proposes to build if it obtains one of the soon-to-be-retired space shuttles.

Five arrested in Lombard prostitution sting

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Quinn: No Guantanamo detainees in Illinois

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 11:37 AM PDT

WASHINGTON--Gov. Pat Quinn said today that he and Sen. Dick Durbin are seeking a letter from the White House saying the vacant state prison in Thomson would not house detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, so plans could advance to sell the facility to the federal government for the Bureau of Prisons.

Students sent to hospitals after Blue Island chemical spill >> Video

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 03:12 PM PDT

Students at a school in Blue Island were taken to local hospitals for observation after they were sickened by fumes from a chemical spill, a fire official said.

Obama to visit Ireland

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 08:55 AM PDT

President Barack Obama chose St. Patrick's Day to announce that he's adding Ireland to the itinerary for his trip to Europe in May.

Area waterways at higher risk of flooding

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 11:31 AM PDT

Waterways throughout the Midwest pose an above average flood risk this spring resulting from months of wet weather, officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said today.

Daley heads to China, still pitching high-speed train

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 11:50 AM PDT

Police: Man paid couple for sex party, wife duped

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 12:42 PM PDT

An Orland Park woman, who awoke recently to find her husband and a man she'd never seen before standing by the bed in their underwear, told police she didn't understand why her husband wouldn't let her call the police after claiming he'd been taken hostage, or why he tried to talk her into going downstairs.

Democrats move to repeal Defense of Marriage Act

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 08:00 AM PDT

Senate Democrats introduce legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, a law the Obama administration says it will not defend in court. House Republicans have mounted their own legal defense of the act. The measure prevents gay couples from receiving federal rights extended to heterosexual couples.

Democrats introduced legislation Wednesday that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, a renewed attack on the 15-year-old law the Obama administration has said it would no longer defend in court from challenges brought on behalf of same-sex couples.

Cerebral palsy among preemies may be declining

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 09:33 AM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The rate of cerebral palsy among very preterm infants may be much lower now compared with 20 years ago, a study at one large medical center suggests.

Justice Dept cites New Orleans police for rights violations

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 10:48 AM PDT

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The New Orleans Police

NYTs hopes missing journalists held by Libyan government

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 05:25 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times says it's holding out hope that four of its journalists who went missing while covering the Libyan conflict are alive and in the custody of the Libyan government.

U.S. urges U.N. to take military action against Libya

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 01:25 PM PDT

Shifting away from earlier caution, the U.S. and allied diplomats ask the U.N. Security Council to OK airstrikes on Libyan ground forces and aircraft. Council members say they fear a humanitarian disaster in Benghazi.

WASHINGTON — American and allied diplomats pressed the United Nations Security Council on Thursday to authorize a broad range of military actions against Libya, making a last-minute effort to prevent Moammar Kadafi's advancing forces from completely overrunning the outgunned rebels.

No. 2: Diet Coke not Pepsi

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 04:54 AM PDT