"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Frost warning issued for Chicago area in morning

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:51 PM PDT

Vegetation and outdoor plants should be covered Wednesday morning when a frost advisory will be in effect in the Chicago area, the National Weather Service said.

Political feud jeopardizes Logan Square Farmers Market

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:57 PM PDT

GOP debate on, with or without candidates

Posted: 03 May 2011 12:14 PM PDT

The first debate of the 2012 Republican presidential primary contest appears set to go forward Thursday – even if there is just one major candidate on stage.

216 Cook County homeowners saved from foreclosure

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:58 PM PDT

A year after it was announced, Cook County's multimillion-dollar mortgage foreclosure mediation program has saved 216 delinquent homeowners from losing their properties to lenders.

Rose on MVP: Don't compare me to Jordan >> Video

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:48 PM PDT

With Derrick Rose having won the NBA's most valuable player award and become the youngest winner in league history at age 22, his Chicago Bulls coaches and teammates are lavishing praise on the third-year guard.

Flooding has families on the run

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:38 PM PDT

Engineers blew another breach in a Missouri levee today in a desperate bid to save homes in Illinois from record flooding.

Sony under fire for data breaches, lagging products

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:53 AM PDT

Sony CEO Howard Stringer faced harsh criticism of his leadership after the consumer electronics conglomerate revealed hackers may have stolen the data of another 25 million accounts in a second massive security breach.

American Airlines testing in-flight streaming video

Posted: 03 May 2011 09:49 AM PDT

American Airlines said Tuesday it is testing a new streaming video product that will allow passengers to watch movies and TV shows on their mobile devices during flights.

Brain size bigger in autistic children

Posted: 03 May 2011 10:23 AM PDT

Children with autism have slightly bigger brains than children without autism by age 2, research has shown. And a new study has found that, though the enlargement continues, the increased growth does not. 

Quinn: Concealed carry law would increase danger

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:58 PM PDT

Gov. Pat Quinn today announced his opposition to concealed carry legislation up for debate this week in the Illinois House, saying allowing private citizens to carry loaded weapons is dangerous and would be detrimental to public safety.

Wiretaps detail Blagojevich's wish list

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:09 PM PDT

The first day of testimony closed with prosecutors playing what could be described as Rod Blagojevich's "I have a dream" wiretap, though the sentiments expressed by the then-governor on Nov. 5, 2008, were considerably less noble than anything uttered by Martin Luther King Jr.

120 raccoons captured at lakefront to be euthanized

Posted: 03 May 2011 08:30 AM PDT

Apparently raccoons like hanging out along the lakefront too.

Labor bill at issue in Wisconsin elections today

Posted: 03 May 2011 06:53 AM PDT

Three vacant Wisconsin Assembly seats are up for grabs today in a special election that is again focusing attention on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plan to curtail collective bargaining rights for most public employees.

Photos: Bin Laden's compound

Posted: 03 May 2011 06:58 AM PDT

Photos: Bin Laden's compound

Posted: 02 May 2011 08:10 AM PDT

Photos of the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was discovered by U.S. troops on May 1, 2011. Warning: Some photos contain graphic content.

Photos: Bin Laden killed

Posted: 03 May 2011 06:26 AM PDT

Chase ends test of $5 ATM fee

Posted: 03 May 2011 01:15 AM PDT

JPMorgan Chase says it has finished testing $4 and $5 ATM fees for noncustomers in two states, and it is going back to the $3 fees it previously charged.

Powder-filled letter closes Elgin courthouse

Posted: 03 May 2011 12:21 AM PDT

Twenty-eight people were sent to the hospital as a precautionary measure today after an appellate court in Elgin received a letter that contained a white powder that the letter's author said was anthrax.

SUV crashes into downtown Dunkin' Donuts

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:06 AM PDT

Two cars crashed in the West Loop this morning, with one of them smashing through the window of a Dunkin' Donuts shop.

Voice recorder found from '09 Air France crash in Atlantic

Posted: 03 May 2011 10:59 AM PDT

PARIS (AP) — French investigators on Tuesday recovered the cockpit voice recorder from an Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean almost two years ago, killing all 228 people on board.