"Chicago Tribune" Reader

"Chicago Tribune" Reader

Game 5 updates: Bulls lead in 2nd quarter

Posted: 10 May 2011 05:47 PM PDT

5 more teachers awarded Golden Apples

Posted: 10 May 2011 04:10 PM PDT

Award honors 3 from Chicago, 2 from north suburbs

Three Chicago and two north suburban teachers were surprised Tuesday with Golden Apple Awards, one of the region's top teaching honors.

Abortion restriction effort not gaining traction in Illinois

Posted: 10 May 2011 03:10 PM PDT

Democrats continue to control the General Assembly and Gov. Pat Quinn opposes most restrictions

The conservative push in other states to restrict abortion rights hasn't gained much traction in Illinois, largely because Democrats continue to control the General Assembly and Gov. Pat Quinn opposes most restrictions.

Blago: 'I'm stuck in this (expletive) job'

Posted: 10 May 2011 03:28 PM PDT

Before Rod Blagojevich's retrial ended for the day, prosecutors played one of the more explosive rants captured on secretly made phone calls of the former governor.

5 more teachers awarded Golden Apples

Posted: 10 May 2011 02:34 PM PDT

Three Chicago and two north suburban teachers were surprised today with Golden Apple awards, one of the Chicago region's top teaching honors.

ESPN 1000 host Teinowitz back to airwaves after rehab

Posted: 10 May 2011 12:39 PM PDT

Fourth person convicted of Derrion Albert murder

Posted: 10 May 2011 01:18 PM PDT

A Cook County jury convicted a South Side man of first-degree murder this afternoon in the 2009 videotaped beating death of Fenger High School sophomore Derrion Albert.

Gary parents charged in boy's death

Posted: 10 May 2011 11:13 AM PDT

Murder charges have been filed against the father and stepmother of a 13-year-old boy who was kept in a dog cage and whose body was unearthed from a shallow grave in Gary last week.

Plan would put Scientology in schools

Posted: 10 May 2011 10:52 AM PDT

The actress who does the voice of Bart Simpson will be in Illinois on Wednesday to lobby for a resolution that would include Church of Scientology teachings in character education for public schools.

90-degree day breaks record

Posted: 10 May 2011 02:03 PM PDT

Today's warm weather has broken a record high set more than a hundred years ago.

Schaumburg man dies during first solo skydive

Posted: 10 May 2011 04:49 PM PDT

Karthik Balakrishnan was to return to his native India next week to help support his parents.

Obama stresses immigration benefits at Mexico border

Posted: 10 May 2011 04:59 PM PDT

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - President Barack Obama issued an impassioned call for immigration reform in a speech at the U.S.-Mexican border on Tuesday, sending a message to Hispanics whose votes he needs to win re-election next year.

Gary parents charged with murder

Posted: 10 May 2011 11:13 AM PDT

Riley Lowell Choate, 39, and Kimberly Leona Kubina are accused of keeping Christian Choate in a dog cage with seven locks for more than a year before he died in April of 2009.

Healthcare law gets friendly reception from Va. court

Posted: 10 May 2011 10:35 AM PDT

Two of the three judges were appointed by President Obama, the other by Bill Clinton. The judges' comments indicate they're leaning toward reversing a federal court decision in Virginia that called the healthcare law unconstitutional.

Richmond, VA--The Obama administration received a generally friendly hearing Tuesday from a panel of three Democratic appointees for its first appeals-court defense of the national healthcare law.

State board rejects closing Oak Forest Hospital

Posted: 10 May 2011 10:46 AM PDT

Emanuel offers 'scorecard' to public for admin accountability

Posted: 10 May 2011 10:16 AM PDT

Rahm Emanuel released a 72-page transition report today which he said will help the public keep tabs on his first-term job performance.

U.S. hopes to question bin Laden's wives

Posted: 10 May 2011 09:55 AM PDT

ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States was hoping on Tuesday to question the detained three wives of Osama bin Laden although Pakistani officials played down the possibility of any speedy access, saying no decision had been made.

Google launches music service

Posted: 10 May 2011 09:42 AM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google is set to launch an

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver to split >> Photos

Posted: 09 May 2011 09:47 PM PDT

The former California first lady has moved out after 25 years of marriage. Maria Shriver helped bolster Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign against charges that he groped women during his movie career.

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, have separated, with Shriver moving out of their Brentwood mansion while the two determine the next step in their 25-year marriage.

Chicago home sales tumble

Posted: 10 May 2011 07:26 AM PDT

The absence of a federal homebuyer stimulus and higher interest rates meant an almost double-digit decline in Chicago-area existing home sales during the first quarter, according to data by the Illinois Association of Realtors.