Category — Chicago, Illinois

This Kankakee home is credited as launching the master architects’ prairie style. It’s on the market for $1.9 million and a preservation group is hoping to raise enough funds to buy it before a June deadline.

300-page report attempts to glean the motives of a troubled man.

2000 txts in 30 days? Crzy.

Were you out drinking last night? Did you notice any Navy commanders in your company?

Workers found the stillborn while separating towels.

Cook County Sheriff: prisoners should eat at 4:30 a.m., do their own laundry.

An off-duty officer helped nab the pair, but cops determined they weren’t involved.

Troopers are still cleaning up a sticky situation after 25,000pounds of jarred honey was lost early Thursday morning when the semitruck hauling it rolled over on the Eisenhower Expressway.Thesemi was on the eastbound exit ramp of the Eisenhower Expressway(I-290) heading towards southbound I-294 when it hit a right barrierwall Thursday at 4:35 a.m., Illinois State Police Sgt. Tim Zych said.The …

These aren’t your ordinary bicycles built for two. These are bound for NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race.

A North Side cab driver who was found lying on the ground outside of his cab early Thursday in the Loop has died. Angelis Kouzios, 62, was found at 239 E. Randolph St., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. About2 a.m., a cab with a passenger drove past when the passenger saw a manon the ground outside next to another cab, police said. The man hadparked the vehicle and was …

A man who was killed late Monday in a rollover on the Stevenson Expressway has been identified. Therollover happened about 11:05 p.m. Monday in the outbound lanes of(I-55) near Cicero Avenue but ended in the inbound lanes, ISP DistrictChicago Trooper Mark Hall said.Witnesses reported the Infiniti FX luxury crossover was speeding in the southbound lanes andwent out of control before slamming into …

Charges are pending for two teens who are in custody for acarjacking and shooting that ended in a police chase and a crash on theSouth Side Wednesday night.At 7:41 p.m., a man was exiting avehicle at 3550 SouthRhodes Avenue when two teen males, ages 17 and 19, approached him anddemanded the man’s keys, according to a Prairie District policelieutenant. One of the teens was armed with a gun.The24 …

A Sycamore-area man faces several criminal charges after chemicals he was cooking on his kitchen stove exploded, burning him and his wife.

A veteran Will County deputy coroner was arrested for allegedly wrecking her car and was jailed on a drunken driving charge.”Don’t you know who I am? I’m a deputy coroner,” 34-year-old Eryn Gray ranted at the Crest Hill cop who arrested her on charges of driving under the influence, resisting a peace officer, and various traffic violations, according to police reports.

A man suspected in a shooting incident in south suburban ChicagoHeights who led police on a 30-minute chase that ended when the carstruck a fire hydrant outside the John Hancock Center early Wednesdayhas been charged. Terrance Johnson, 30, of 267 West HickoryStreet in Chicago Heights, was arrested Wednesday, according to ChicagoHeights Chief of Detectives Sgt. Tom Rogers. ChicagoHeights police …

(LONG GROVE) “So u really text that much?” “yes i used to send about a hundred text a day but it has slowed down since i got the braces”"But r u cutting back?”"yes the braces make it painful to text as well as it just hurts in general same goes for typing on the computer.”That’s how a text interview went with Annie Levitz, 16, an AdlaiStevenson High School junior who has been diagnosed with …

An 85-year-old man from northwest suburban Norridge died earlyTuesday following an incident from three weeks ago where he caught onfire while lighting a cigar.Chester Truszkowski, of 7811 W.Winnemac Ave., suffered burns in a clothing fire and he was pronounceddead at 5:50 a.m. Tuesday at Loyola University Medical Center inMaywood, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said.Truszkowskiwas …

A 7-year-old girl riding on her scooter outside her grandmother’s South Side home was shot in the head Wednesday afternoon by a bullet intended for others, Chicago Police said. Desaree Sanders, identified by news reports, was playing near Manistee and 80th Street when she was hit by a bullet fired by assailants running east and chasing others.

Gov. Quinn and House Speaker Michael Madigan took turns Wednesday attacking GOP candidate for governor Sen. Bill Brady as an anti-labor politician who would work to abolish the minimum wage. Speaking at a gathering of the Illinois Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Quinn told the pro-union crowd that Brady owned a construction company that only hired non-union workers.

The Chicago Sun-Times was honored with several awards Wednesday in the 2010 Illinois Associated Press Editors Association Editorial Excellence contest.Photojournalist Tom Cruze won first place in the Sports Feature category for his photo of a Philadelphia Phillies outfielder being doused with beer at Wrigley Field.Columnist Rick Telander won first place in the Sports Columns category for his …

Clinton Danner’s wife told her dad last year that the “nice guy” she had married had been pimping her for sex. After hearing that, the father immediately brought her to the family’s home in suburban Minneapolis. But the young woman, who first became enamored with Danner at church when she was 17, returned to him in a few months.

CTA buses might get dirtier. The CTA wants to shorten the amount of time recommended to “deep clean” a bus from four hours to two hours for 40-foot buses, and from six hours to three hours for 60-foot buses, according to CTA internal documents. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 241, which represents bus workers, has filed a grievance against the CTA over the change, according to Carlos J. Acevedo …

Workers at a Joliet laundry were shocked and saddened Tuesday night after finding the remains of a fetus in a bag of sheets and towels from a Chicago hospital.

A 16-year-old boy was shot in the hand Wednesday night on the South Side. At9:15 p.m. the boy was walking through a parking lot at 7050 S. MerrillAve., when two males wearing masks emerged from an alley and startedshooting at him, according  to a Grand Crossing District policecaptain. The boy was hit in the right hand and was taken to South Shore Hospital in good and “stable” condition, she said …

A woman driving a stolen car recklessly was hospitalized after shecrashed into another car and then careened into a chicken restaurant,damaging it early Thursday on the West Side, police said. Aboutmidnight police began following a woman in her late teens who wasallegedly speeding and driving recklessly south on Pulaski Road atDivision Street, according to a Harrison District police lieutenant …

With the 2010 Census on the horizon, Democratic state legislators are licking their chops at the prospect of controlling the decennial district remap process.But the League of Women Voters of Illinois wants to change the rules. They are spearheading an “Illinois Fair Map Amendment” movement. They are attempting to pass a “citizens initiative” which would change the law on how the state’s …

He’s a bald-faced thief.

But snow is possible for this weekend.

Apparently, TV does cause violence.

Penelope Trahanas surrendered to police, and was released.