"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Medicare fraud-busters target Chicago

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 04:27 PM PDT

As scams targeting seniors proliferate, fraud-fighting efforts intensify

Day after day, the delivery trucks arrived at the building on Chicago's North Side, bringing walkers, hospital beds and wheelchairs to residents.

Sox beat Rays in home opener

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 04:54 PM PDT

Edwin Jackson throws 13 strikeouts in a 5-1 victory. Video: Opener at The Cell | Sox app

Civil War: 150 years later (The Newsroom)

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:57 PM PDT

The Newsroom - On April 12, 1861, the clash of Union and Confederate forces at Fort Sumter launched the American Civil War, a battle that lasted four years and took the lives of more than 600,000 soldiers and sailors. The country still bears scars today, divided by the wounds the struggle opened.

Attack on conductor delays Metra train

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 04:21 PM PDT

An attack against a Metra conductor on a station platform late this afternoon caused police to be called and at least one train to be delayed.

Quinn pick draws fire over political tactics

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:19 PM PDT

Change in Wis. county could flip Supreme Court race

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 11:40 AM PDT

Updated election returns posted on a Wisconsin county's website would flip the winner of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

Quinn nominee draws fire for abortion stance

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 12:23 PM PDT

SPRINGFIELD — Following sharp exchanges, a Democratic-led Senate panel today recommended approval of a state board appointment for an abortion-rights leader whose group contributed more than $400,000 to Gov. Pat Quinn's campaign.

Cops hit with civil rights charges

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:11 PM PDT

Civil rights charges were announced today against four officers once assigned to the Chicago Police Department's disgraced Special Operations Section, an elite unit that was disbanded after allegations of illegal searches and raids on Chicago residents.

Civil rights charges against cops from disgraced unit

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:16 PM PDT

Civil rights charges were announced today against four officers once assigned to the Chicago Police Department's disgraced Special Operations Section, an elite unit that was disbanded after allegations of illegal searches and raids on Chicago residents.

House passes measure to keep government open another week

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 11:49 AM PDT

President Obama has threatened to veto the measure, which funds the Department of Defense through September and pays for an additional week of government operation — with $12 billion in cuts. Democrats seek a one-week extension at existing spending levels.

Despite a veto threat from President Obama, the House of Representatives passed a spending measure Thursday that would fund the Department of Defense through September and also keep the government open for an additional week.

Daley starts farewell tour of neighborhoods

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 11:05 AM PDT

Mayor Richard Daley today kicked off a "Neighborhood Appreciation Tour" that he said will take him around Chicago in his final weeks in office to thank those who helped him get things done in their communities. Appearing at the dedication of a drug treatment center for women in the West Town neighborhood, the mayor applauded community activists from the area, but also touted his legacy with less than six weeks left until Rahm Emanuel succeeds him.

Sox beat Rays in home opener

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:20 PM PDT

Edwin Jackson throws 13 strikeouts in a 5-1 victory. Video: Opener at The Cell | Sox app

Vettel: Ria gets 4 stars

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 11:24 AM PDT

High expectations meet their match in Danny Grant and his staff

Taste, as a jazz musician once noted, is manifested in the notes one declines to play. In that regard, Danny Grant is a taste master.

Notre Dame to appeal ruling on student's death

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:03 PM PDT

The University of Notre Dame is appealing the findings from a state investigation into the death of a football team videographer killed last fall when a hydraulic lift he was in toppled over amid high winds.

Daley kicks off farewell tour

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 10:59 AM PDT

What a shutdown may mean

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 10:01 AM PDT

Confronting the possibility of failure in last-ditch budget talks, federal officials have prepared plans to furlough thousands of employees and suspend many services if the government shuts down for the first time in more than 15 years. Administration officials stressed their hopes that a compromise would be reached before a spending measure expires at midnight April 8. Officials detailed shutdown plans which described a government that would be hobbled, not halted. -- Tribune Newspapers

Sox fans at home opener

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 10:36 AM PDT

Brazil gunman kills 11, self at Rio school

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:25 PM PDT

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian gunman fatally shot 11 children at a Rio de Janeiro school before killing himself, police said on Thursday, shocking the South American nation that has never seen such an incident before.

State slates $5B for area roadbuilding over 6 years

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:01 AM PDT

Illinois is budgeting $11.5 billion on road construction over the next six years, including more than $5 billion in the Chicago region to repair crumbling highways and major arterial streets, the Illinois Department of Transportation announced Thursday.

Near North hotel evacuated after gas line break

Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:17 AM PDT

A ruptured gas main prompted the evacuation of about 500 people from a Near North Side hotel this morning, officials said.