WASHINGTON (MCT) — First lady Michelle Obama opened the holiday season at the White House on Wednesday, importing Chicago talent to style the world's ...
NEW: Dec. 5, 2013 - 9:46 am
A controversial fix for Illinois’ ailing state-run pension systems is on its way to Gov. Pat Quinn after barely squeaking through both houses of the G ...
Dec. 4, 2013 - 10:04 am
CHICAGO (MCT) — Chicago firefighters failed to properly coordinate and communicate their strategy for extinguishing a blaze that killed a 32-year vete ...
Dec. 3, 2013 - 9:56 am
WASHINGTON (MCT) — Chicago attorney Vickie Pasley, who was treasurer of Jesse Jackson Jr.'s campaign committee, has been fined $7,150 by the Federal E ...
Dec. 2, 2013 - 2:42 pm
SPRINGFIELD (MCT) — Republican candidates for governor are split on whether a government worker pension overhaul backed by Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn s ...
Dec. 3, 2013 - 5:18 pm
(MCT) — A program that helps ex-offenders gain work experience cleaning rail cars and buses for the Chicago Transit Authority will end on Dec. 31, acc ...
Dec. 2, 2013 - 2:35 pm
(MCT) — When someone came knocking one night last week, John Poyer opened the door. And in the next 10 minutes the 88-year-old longtime Elgin resident ...
Nov. 29, 2013 - 1:48 pm
(MCT) — Unlike a lot of people her age, 20-year-old Kelsey Pearsall-Brandon of Lake in the Hills has a clear career goal. She wants to be a police off ...
Nov. 29, 2013 - 1:46 pm
CHICAGO (MCT) — Hundreds of miles from the shale oil of southern Illinois, nearly 300 people jammed into a hearing room in Chicago this week in an att ...
Nov. 29, 2013 - 1:42 pm
ROMEOVILLE (MCT) — Debbie Turner was leaving a Kohl's store in Romeoville with her daughter when she saw a police officer, his shirt off and his shoul ...
Nov. 29, 2013 - 1:40 pm
