Boy, 15, fatally shot near Obama's Chicago home
A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed in a backyard about four blocks from President Barack Obama's Chicago home, police said Tuesday.
A look at immigrant patients deported by hospitals
Over the last five years, American hospitals have sent at least 600 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally back to their home countries to avoid ...
Correction: Marathon Explosions-Contact story
In an April 15 story about the frantic efforts by family and friends to contact Boston marathon runners in the immediate aftermath of Monday's ...
Gardeners make plans with no certainty in forecast
There's no question that Eric Ciula picked a bad year to get into a competition for growing the biggest tomato. The worst U.S. drought in decades was ...
Blackhawks beat Predators 5-4 for 7th straight win
The race for the Central Division is long over, and the West has been won. The Presidents' Trophy is still out there, and the Chicago Blackhawks look ...
Floodwaters rising after storms deluge heartland
Flood fighters from small Mississippi River hamlets to the suburbs of Chicago staged a feverish battle Friday to hold back raging rivers, after days ...
Airlines, pilots sue government to stop furloughs
Predicting a nightmarish air travel snarl that will stretch from coast to coast, the airline industry and the nation's largest pilots union joined ...
Ebert links to his Urbana home remained tight
Michael Esteves wakes up every day in the spot Roger Ebert called the center of the universe, and it isn't Chicago, New York or Cannes. Esteves owns ...
Bombing probe highlights expansion of surveillance
As the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings illustrates, getting lost in the crowd is no longer an easy feat. There are eyes — and cameras ...
From Rockies to Rust Belt, storm brings extremes
A powerful spring storm system stretching from southern Texas to northern Michigan unleashed a wave of weather extremes on the Midwest on Thursday and ...
Flight delays: Furloughs begin at airports Sunday
Air traffic controller furloughs scheduled to kick in on Sunday could result in flight delays of more than three hours in Atlanta, as well as ...
New pro women's soccer league on FOX Sports TV
The new women's professional soccer league has landed a TV deal with FOX Sports. Six regular-season matches will be shown in July, followed by two ...
Group says major companies involved in tax scheme
A Chicago-area transportation agency on Wednesday alleged that some of the nation's largest and best known companies including AT&T, Sears Holdings ...
Funeral held for diplomat killed in Afghanistan
A taste for adventure and a belief that good can be done in tough places led young American diplomat Anne Smedinghoff to Afghanistan, where she ...
Lawsuit names White Sox owner, former governor
The former head of the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority filed a lawsuit Monday against White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf and former Illinois Gov.
George Beverly Shea dies; sang at Graham crusades
George Beverly Shea, whose booming baritone voice echoed through stadiums, squares and souls during a decades-long career with evangelist Billy ...
Kerry visits family of slain US diplomat
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stopped in Chicago on Monday to visit the parents of the young U.S. diplomat who was killed while delivering ...
$500M Wrigley Field renovation headed for court?
The Chicago Cubs have been fighting for years to get back to the World Series. They may have a fight on their hands to upgrade Wrigley Field, too.
Inmates, orchestra members perform behind bars
Strains of classical music echoed on Sunday — not inside an august concert hall — but in a bleak Chicago jail where the mostly teenage boys await ...
Chicago bluesman Jimmy Dawkins dead at 76
Chicago bluesman Jimmy "Fast Fingers" Dawkins, known for his stellar guitar playing and mellow singing voice, has died. He was 76. Delmark Records ...
Ballet legend Maria Tallchief dies at 88
Maria Tallchief, one of America's first great prima ballerinas who gave life to such works as "The Nutcracker," ''Firebird," and other masterpieces ...
Bulls stop Knicks streak at 13 with 118-111 OT win
Suddenly, Chicago is the place where long winning streaks go to die. This time, it was Carmelo Anthony and the Knicks going down. Late last month, it ...
Actors, others honor Ebert at Chicago theater
Hollywood came to Chicago on Thursday as actors, directors, film critics and studio presidents honored late movie reviewer Roger Ebert in his hometown
Bat-swinging Chicago store owner fends off gunmen
Bail is set at $750,000 for one of two men facing charges in the shooting of a Chicago shop owner whose resistance with a baseball bat was captured ...
Ex-NFL player Hurd pleads guilty to drug charge
Former NFL wide receiver Sam Hurd pleaded guilty Thursday to trying to buy cocaine and marijuana to set up a drug-distribution network, leaving a ...
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