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Hate mail prompts college evacuation
Trinity International University administrators are meeting with law enforcement officials today as they plan their next move after they evacuated all minority undergraduate students from campus in the face of threats.
For Bush, home is a box in Chicago
Home is where the money is when it comes time for President Bush to file his taxes.
Different faiths get taste of unity at Passover table
Inside the basement auditorium of a Chicago labor union headquarters, Jewish community leaders broke matzo at a model Passover seder in the unlikely company of Muslim lawyers, Latino workers and African-American supermarket employees.
Hate mail prompts student evacuation
Trinity International University in Bannockburn evacuated all minority undergraduate students from the campus Thursday after some received racially motivated hate mail and the latest letter included a threat of violence, officials said.
Push to land a Trader Joe's puts local retailers on edge
Amy Donati thought she had found her dream job when she bought 0Morningfields, a specialty grocery, deli and bakery in Park Ridge.
New trial is sought in double homicide
Imploring a judge to "right this wrong," an attorney Thursday requested a new trial for a man convicted 18 years ago in a double homicide in a case filled with controversy and contradictions.
Podiatrist told client not to talk, 2 testify
Joyce Brannon's sister, fighting back tears at times, testified Thursday how Brannon defiantly told her in January 2002 that she planned to testify against her former foot doctor despite his pleas that he would be ruined.
Baseball team reels after dual tragedies
Skip Sullivan, head baseball coach at Oak Lawn Community High School, has given hundreds of pep talks in his long career, but he has been tested in the last week as tragedy struck his team twice.
Casino panel rid of lobbyist
The Illinois Gaming Board said Thursday it had gotten rid of a politically connected lobbyist forced onto its payroll by the Blagojevich administration over the objections of board members who said they didn't need or want her.
Hazing case hits Loyola Academy
Two Loyola Academy lacrosse players were asked to withdraw from school and four others were suspended and kicked off the team after they participated in an alcohol-related hazing incident last month, officials said Thursday.
Jurors taken to burial site
Jurors in the trial of Skyler Chambers, one of two men accused of kidnapping, raping and suffocating 14-year-old Nassim Davoodi of Carol Stream in 2002, were shuttled Thursday to the wooded area in Lake County where her body was discovered.
New mayor in Antioch shows top aide the door
Antioch's new mayor won't take office for 10 days, but the ax is already falling on key village staff.
How child got gun still unclear, cops say
Police investigating the shooting death of a 3-year-old boy at his father's Stickney home said they are trying to piece together how the youngster got the gun and other crucial details.
JET STREAM TAPPING LAST VESTIGE OF WINTER'S COLD AIR AND DRAGGING IT SOUTH INTO THE MIDWEST
Friday's rainfall isn't all bad news here in the run-up to a new growing season. Until this rain's arrival, only one third Chicago's normal April rainfall has occurred--0.86" versus the normal 2.58"--and the meteorological spring season which began March 1 has hosted less than half the city's normal rain for the period--2.34" versus the normal 5.33". But, Friday's huge spring storm isn't only producing rain across the nation's heartland.
ASK TOM WHY
Dear Tom,
Weekend chill like March; Some flurries?
Until Thursday, this spring's temperature surpluses had been building at an impressive rate.
Today
Chicago: Waves of rainfall into Friday night. Totals may exceed 1". Drenching, possibly thundery downpours at times into early afternoon.
WEATHER WORD
Ventilation: The process of causing "representative air" to be in contact with the sensing element of a weather instrument designed to measure a specific atmospheric quantity (such as air temperature).
2 hurt in fall from scaffold
Two men doing construction work outside McCormick Place on Chicago's Near South Side were seriously injured overnight when a scaffold they were standing on collapsed onto the Stevenson Expressway, WGN-Ch. 9 reported.
Have we finally squashed the beetle?
Eight years after Asian longhorned beetles started to slowly kill trees on the North Side, authorities this week will announce a rare success story in the battle against invasive pests.
Hyde reluctantly opts to bow out
The wit and ready jokes are still there for Henry Hyde. So too is the eloquent voice that his opponents learned to fear and admire.
Museum pulls no punches
In a darkened gallery of this city's new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, visitors walk a gantlet of ghostly, videographic faces, many spewing insults and hate-filled rhetoric like Lincoln may have heard as he pondered emancipation.
3 schools have day to rejoice
Tears flowed and cheers rang out Monday inside Pope John Paul II Catholic School in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood as students and parents learned that their eclectic mix of fundraising in recent weeks was enough to convice archdiocese officials that their school should remain open.
Faithful see Mary on underpass wall
Obdulia Delgado turned toward the on ramp of the Kennedy Expressway when she saw something in the middle of traffic that made her stop.
High school teens face a gay T-shirt showdown
UPDATE: Students on two opposing sides of the gay-rights awareness issue wore their T-shirts to Homewood-Flossmoor High School this morning.
Trooper's ex-boss testifies in civil suit
Four years ago, Illinois State Police Maj. Edie Casella was in favor of reopening the case of slain newlyweds Karen and Dyke Rhoads in Downstate Paris.
3 U. of I. grads, man from Monee die on I-57
Charisse Hartzol decided to take her spiritual life more seriously after two recent events: the death of her beloved aunt and a premonition of her own death in a dream.
1st trial to begin in girl's death
A California man whose trial starts this week in Cook County faces the death penalty if convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a Carol Stream girl to whom he offered a ride home from Bartlett High School in 2002.
Western Springs sued by resident
The ongoing fight over a planned residential development on a former golf course in Western Springs has been raised a notch as a neighbor filed suit in hopes of halting construction.
Pace marks a milestone as 500th van pool forms
When LeRoy Love celebrated his birthday last month, he was taken out to lunch. But it wasn't his family or boss who picked up the check.
School to buy college campus
A tiny private elementary school has signed an agreement to buy National-Louis University's historic campus on Sheridan Road in Evanston and Wilmette, school officials announced Monday.
Kids paste up stickers to stem lake pollution
A group of Highland Park 7th graders armed with glue, brushes and gloves took a field trip Monday to a storm sewer in front of the county building in Waukegan to try to help save Lake Michigan.
A THIRD 80(degrees) TUESDAY WOULD MAKE 2005 ONE OF ONLY 11 YEARS WITH AS MANY 80s BY APRIL 19
If Tuesday's predicted 80(degrees) high verifies, 2005 will become only the 11th of the past 135 years to have produced three or more 80s through April 19. But, the present warmth is not long for this area and is to stage a dramatic departure Wednesday. Though Chicagoans are likely to find warm, relatively humid conditions still in place as Wednesday gets underway, a southbound cold front ushers the first of two chilly air masses to reach the area between Wednesday and this Saturday. NNE winds follow a cold frontal passage late morning--the most potent wind direction in terms of its potential to cool the city.
Monday's 83(degrees): Warmer than Miami and Las Vegas
All but the immediate Lake Michigan shoreline was treated to summerlike warmth Monday. In just 9 hours time Monday, the temp here surged 38(degrees) from the day's low of 45(degrees) to 2005's highest reading to date--83(degrees) at 2:15 p.m.! That temperature was the highest here in 7 months (since 85(degrees) on Sept. 23) and the year's second to reach or exceed 80(degrees). Only four other April 18's in the past 135 years have been warmer.
ASK TOM WHY
Dear Tom,
Today
Chicago: Unseasonably warm. Temps 22(degrees) above normal. Sun through increasing cloudiness.
WEATHER WORD
Rogue waves: Individual waves of exceptional height and/or abnormal shape. They are recognized as a unique and real phenomenon, but with a variety of causes.
Our Lady of the Underpass?
Curiosity seekers joined the faithful today to view what some said was an image of the Virgin Mary at an underpass of the Kennedy Expressway on Chicago's Northwest Side, CLTV reported.
National-Louis selling N. Shore campus
A private elementary school has signed an agreement to purchase National-Louis University's historic campus on Sheridan Road on the Evanston-Wilmette border, school officials announced today.
Man's body found at S. Side fire
Authorities this afternoon are investigating the discovery of a man's body in the charred remains of a house that burned down this morning on Chicago's South Side, WGN-Ch. 9 reported.
Fire hits N. Side high-rise
Firefighters and paramedics rushed this morning to a high-rise apartment building on Chicago's North Side as smoke poured out of an upper-floor unit, WGN-Ch. 9 reported.
Time picks Daley 1 of 5 top mayors
Focusing on his "near imperial" power and influence in Chicago, Time magazine Sunday named Mayor Richard Daley one of the five best big-city mayors.
CTA riders will lose out by dismissing smart cards
CTA riders who don't use Chicago Cards or multiday passes to pay their fares may soon fall into the same category as drivers who haven't switched to paying tolls with I-PASS on the Illinois Tollway.
Questions arise over O'Hare plan
An interim program manager has been at the helm at O'Hare International Airport for the last six months after the nationally known airport development expert hired to oversee the first phase of O'Hare's $6.6 billion airfield makeover was quietly dismissed last fall.
Papal choice fuels immigrants' interest
The papacy of Pope John Paul II unleashed pride and fervor among Polish immigrants across Chicago, on display in the red-and-white flags that surfaced across town after the pontiff's death.
Arlington Heights leaders to size up teardown rules
Abraham Lincoln said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand," but what would he have to say about tearing down houses, a battle that has divided Lincoln Lane?
Robbins man fatally shot outside his house
Police on Sunday were searching for the killer of a 20-year-old man who was shot outside his home, police said.
Chinese woman gets new hearing
At age 16, Xiu Ping Huang sought political asylum in the U.S., saying she feared persecution in her native country of China because of her Roman Catholic faith.
Scholarships honor GIs, Glenbrook South alumni
When they attended Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Brian Kennedy and Chris Zimny knew each other as fellow athletes but weren't close friends.
Greeks honor memory of 37-year archbishop
With prayer, song and the lighting of candles, members of Orthodox Greek congregations Sunday in Chicago and across the nation marked the death of Archbishop Iakovos, who worked for religious unity, walked with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in support of civil rights and embodied an American generation's growth in their religion and culture.
Woman, 34, killed in hit-run
Witnesses restrained a Pilsen man who tried to escape from a crash scene after he struck and killed a neighborhood woman over the weekend, Chicago police said.
Cops say man stole car on test drive
A man who allegedly conned a car salesman into letting him test drive a car and then hijacked it was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 bail Sunday.
Teen gets $40,000 bail in stabbing near brawl
A teenager was held in lieu of $40,000 bail in a stabbing near a street brawl on the South Side, prosecutors said Sunday.
Mentally disabled teen abused, prosecutor says
A South Side man was ordered held in lieu of $300,000 bail Sunday on a charge that he sexually abused a 13-year-old mentally disabled boy.
Man held in sex assault of girl heading to school
A Chicago man who works as a customer service representative at a local bank was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, prosecutors said Sunday.
Bank teller is accused of taking nearly $60,000
A teller at Bank of America was charged with one count of theft after being accused of stealing almost $60,000 from the bank over three months, prosecutors said.
Alleged abuse of girl probed by cops, DCFS
State officials are investigating allegations of abuse of a 19-month-old girl Sunday after authorities discovered her with bruises in a home on the Southwest Side, officials said.
9 arrested in Aurora in prostitution sting
Nine people were arrested Friday in Aurora in a prostitution sting targeting customers, police said.
3-vehicle accident sends 5 to hospitals
A three-vehicle accident Sunday night on the West Side sent five people to area hospitals in serious condition.
Archbishop, flock pray for task at hand
While Roman Catholics across the Chicago area sang hymns and offered prayers surrounding the papal election, Cardinal Francis George prepared Sunday to spend his first night in seclusion with the other 114 members of the conclave in Vatican City before facing the most crucial decision a cardinal has to make.
Ex-boyfriend held in slaying
A man was arrested Sunday after he was accused of burning his ex-girlfriend with cooking oil and stabbing her boyfriend to death in the boyfriend's bedroom early Friday morning.
ALMANAC
On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.
SEVERE WEATHER HISTORY
During the late afternoon and early evening hours Tuesday, April 20, 2004, supercell thunderstorms spawned 14 tornadoes over portions of northeast Illinois. Eight people perished when a 100-year-old structure in Utica received a direct F3 hit.
ASK TOM WHY
Dear Tom,
Summer-level warmth today and Tuesday
Chicago's second and third 80(degrees) days of 2005 are likely to occur today and again Tuesday. Warming southwest flow digs in today and continues Tuesday. Higher dew points also accompany the warmer air, especially Tuesday. With the approach of a cold front, showers and thunderstorms are likely to develop over northeast Illinois later Tuesday afternoon and continue that night.
Today
Chicago: As clouds and scattered light showers move north, winds pick up from the southwest.
WEATHER FACT
Port Martin, Antarctica: The world's windiest place. It has an average wind speed of 40 m.p.h.
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