Category — Chicago, Illinois

The former governor delivers a hair-brained “Top Ten” list.

Grandpa’s got a better libido than grandma, researchers say.

“Can I get paid in conditioner?”

After running away from police, a chopper finds one man stuck in mud.

A Riverdale man died Wednesday morning after swallowing a plastic bag of drugs and being Tasered by police, officials said.Jaesun Ingles, 31, of the 14300 block of South Normal Avenue, died at MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island after fighting with police and fleeing from the parking lot of a Midlothian Dunkin’ Donuts, according to Lt. Michael Kaufman. An autopsy failed to pinpoint Ingles …

Three Chicago men who own and operate a popular restaurant chain were charged Thursday with a check scheme that defrauded at least two banks out of more than $1.8 million. The owners of Boston Blackie’s — Chris Giannis, 38, and his father Nick Giannis, 62, as well as restaurant manager Andy Bakopoulous, 38 — are charged with two counts each of felony theft, according to a Cook County State’s …

Pat Moon, the 33-year-old Park Ridge landscaper competing in the Iditarod sled dog race despite a cancer diagnosis, slammed into a tree Tuesday while navigating a gorge in a particularly remote section of the course. His injuries ended his race. “I let [the dogs] down,” Moon said Wednesday from Anchorage. “I didn’t live up to their expectations. Their main joy in life is to run, to be on the …

Shock jock is accused of threatening three Chicago judges on his blog.

From the public safety section of the budget, Gov. Quinn proposed cutting: •  $25.3 million from the State Police, which will reduce the head count by 500 people in the agency through layoffs and attrition.•  $6.5 million in Operation CeaseFire grants, which would eliminate all state funding for the anti-violence program. …

House Minority Leader Tom Cross (R-Oswego)”No one wants to see K-12 decimated the way he’s talking about. At the end of the day, this isn’t going to happen. He will not introduce a budget that provides for $1.2 billion in cuts to the education community. This is a scare tactic.”House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago)”You should admire the governor for standing up in these times and saying …

A 31-year-old south suburban Riverdale man who died early Wednesday morning triedto swallow a plastic bag of suspected drugs before police shot him witha Taser, according to Midlothian police. Jaesun Ingles, of the 14300 block of Normal Avenue, died just aftermidnight at MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island after fightingwith police and fleeing from the parking lot of a Midlothian Dunkin …

A Crown Point man is accused of running an elaborate scheme usingfake bar codes to purchase products from Lowe’s for less than theiractual price. He did all that while facing deportation for being in the country illegally. According to a filing in the U.S. District Court in Hammond, BrankoNenadic, 26, would print his own bar codes on sticky labels and then gointo Lowe’s stores throughout the …

Two boys remain in intensive care Thursday after being shot multiple times in a “rare” drive-by incident that also left a teenage girl wounded Wednesday night in northwest suburban Schaumburg. A 12-year-old boy and his 14-year-old sister, as well as a 16-year-old boy — all of Hoffman Estates — were walking through the parking lot of a strip mall in the 900 block of Bode Road when somebody in a …

A Traffic Court judge has ordered a Cook County court deputy to attend traffic school for hitting a highway worker. “It’s time to have a refresher course in driving,” Cook County Circuit Judge Earl Hoffenberg told Tony Lampkin on Wednesday.

Some say program incentivizing mortgage modifications is putting them in default and foreclosure.

Gov. Quinn wants to impose $503 million in cuts, affecting the current state work force and future retirees. The governor wants to save:• $203 million by seeking employee furloughs, increasing how much state employees pay toward their health insurance and imposing travel restrictions.• $300 million in changes to the pensions offered to state employees, though Quinn’s administration declined to …

The menacing target looked a bit like Brian Urlacher with a hangover.I stood 7 feet away, pointing a yellow Taser gun at it. A red dot from the laser sight bounced above the target’s belly. I squeezed the trigger.Two 21-foot wires ejected from the Taser. Metal barbs attached to the wires punctured the target, one near the red dot and the other about a foot lower in the crotch.Too bad for …

A school bus driver who allegedly drove a bus full of students while nearly three times the legal blood alcohol limit has been suspended and charged with aggravated DUI.Betty Burden, 54, allegedly reeked of booze and had a blood alcohol level of 0.226 when she was arrested Tuesday afternoon in Mount Prospect, prosecutors say.She admitted downing several vodka and oranges before driving 50 …

A Traffic Court judge Wednesday ordered a Cook County sheriff’s officer to traffic school for hitting a highway worker. “It’s time to have a refresher course in driving,” Cook County Circuit Judge Earl Hoffenberg told Tony Lampkin on Wednesday.

He covertly cooperated with the government for more than a year, but Ald. Ike Carothers might not testify at the trial of the developer who allegedly bribed him.Noticeably absent from Wednesday’s opening statements to jurors in the trial of developer Calvin Boender was any reference to possible testimony from the former 29th Ward alderman who quit last month.Prosecutors said in court outside of …

”No one wants to see K-12 decimated the way he’s talking about. At the end of the day, this isn’t going to happen. He will not introduce a budget that provides for $1.2 billion in cuts to the education community. This is a scare tactic.”House Minority Leader Tom Cross (R-Oswego)”You should admire the governor for standing up in these times and saying, ‘Look, if we wish to maintain the fiscal …

Uncorking a risky election-year gambit, Gov. Quinn on Wednesday proposed a 33 percent increase in the state income tax to avoid “sacrificing the future of a generation of children.” Quinn’s push to hike the tax on Illinois workers’ paychecks from 3 percent to 4 percent came with a promise to devote all of the $2.8 billion in new annual revenues to education.

A woman was charged with drunken driving when the car she was in crashed on Interstate 57, killing another woman and causing a 9-year-old girl to be ejected from the car on the Far South Side.Yvonne Kemp, 28, of Chicago, was charged with DUI and other charges are pending early Thursday, according to ISP District Chicago Trooper Mark Hall.About 10:15 p.m. Tuesday, a Ford Escort was northbound in …

Gov. Quinn proposed $601 million in cuts to health and human services programs, including:• $76.1 million in child-care programs.• $104.6 million in programs for the developmentally disabled.• $1.9 million for domestic violence shelters.• $1.5 million for prostate cancer advertising campaigns.• $1.5 million for grants to prevent HIV/AIDS in African-American communities.• $1 million in grants for …

Upscale bakery and sandwich shop chain Panera Bread on Wednesday said it will post the calorie count of food items on its menu boards at stores across the country. Expecting to have the numbers on the boards by April, Missouri-based Panera would be the first national fast casual restaurant chain to make such a widespread move. Yum Brands, which owns KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, will post the …

Mark Brown: Illinois: Land of Deadbeats. Who am I talking about? Me, you, every last one of us who makes this state our home.

Community alert was issued after teens report sexual assaults by man in green minivan.

Called 911 after finding mom unconscious on the floor.

Neighbor recorded explosion as firefighters battled house fire last month.

Some say program incentivizing mortgage modifications is putting them in default and foreclosure.