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'Virgin Mary' image returns
An image some considered to be that of the Virgin Mary reappeared today after vanishing under a layer of paint state highway workers had applied to it.
Alleged mobster pleads not guilty, gives judge a list of ailments
Alleged mobster Frank J. Calabrese Sr. pleaded innocent to murder conspiracy charges Friday and provided the judge with a list of medical problems that his attorney claimed could ultimately prevent him from going to trial.
Man dead, cop wounded in suburban shootout
An undercover police drug investigation turned violent overnight, leaving an alleged suspect dead and an officer wounded in west suburban Brookfield.
School janitor charged with groping teen
A West Chicago High School janitor is in jail today, held on $250,000 bond after he was charged this week with sexually abusing a 16-year-old student, authorities said.
This Sept. 8, no bean for you
Much of Millennium Park, Chicago's hottest new public attraction, will become a private playground for conventioneers one day later this year.
New life is breathed into city smoking ban
The Chicago alderman who sponsored an anti-smoking ordinance that has languished in the City Council for more than two years said Thursday that he now has the votes to pass it and will act on the matter soon.
Celebrity ape leaps back into spotlight
Binti Jua, the ape who became an international hero nine years ago for bringing a human boy to safety after the 3-year-old fell into Brookfield Zoo's gorilla habitat, was the center of attention again Thursday as the zoo showed off her newborn son.
Blagojevich kills contract he defended
Making an abrupt about-face, Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Thursday terminated a multimillion-dollar consulting contract that was central to his government cost-saving plans after initially dismissing an audit that said it was mismanaged and questioned its worth.
Till relatives argue over exhuming body
A relative of Emmett Till, whose brutal murder 50 years ago in Mississippi helped inspire the civil rights movement, said Thursday she would fight federal investigators' plans to exhume the boy's body.
I-88 toll plan riles neighbors
Angela Karras Neboyskey got an unwelcome housewarming gift in the form of a letter from the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority this week after moving back into her childhood home in unincorporated Oak Brook.
Kids tell jurors how their aunt was slain
The 6-year-old daughter of an alleged gang leader had one question for her father after he brutally gunned down her aunt and wounded her mother in front of several other children: "Daddy, are you going to kill all of us now?"
Doctor found guilty of murder
A Chicago podiatrist faces a possible sentence of death after a federal jury convicted him Thursday of murdering a former patient who had defied his pleas not to testify against him in a federal probe of a massive Medicare fraud scheme.
Web site details OT paid by city
In an effort to enlist co-workers and everyday Chicagoans as watchdogs, the administration of Mayor Richard Daley has begun using a Web site to detail overtime paid to city workers, and the new listing quickly generated a gripe centered on the extended Daley family.
Housing manager aided drug dealers, police say
For years, drug dealers moved easily within the gates of the Evergreen Terrace apartments in Joliet, police say, leading to routine sweeps that frustrated authorities and provided fodder to city officials looking to close the complex.
Door opening for tort reform
In what could be a breakthrough in the yearslong standoff on tort reform, Democratic leaders in the Statehouse Thursday signaled a willingness to accept limits on jury awards in malpractice cases, something doctors have long argued is vital to ending the rise of insurance costs.
Metra's delay on restrooms questioned
Nearly four months after Metra's board deferred the purchase of 160 restroom-equipped commuter cars for its Electric line, a state senator has fired off letters questioning the move and asking whether the commuter rail line is mistreating its African-American riders.
Sentence of death rejected for killer
Agreeing with defense arguments that a man convicted in a fatal gang shooting was not the type of killer for whom the death penalty in Illinois was intended, a Cook County judge sentenced him Thursday to a long stretch in prison.
DUST DEVILS REPORTED OVER DRY, FRESHLY PLOWED SOIL OF WESTERN ILLINOIS/EASTERN IOWA
Temperatures continue rebounding Friday off one of the chilliest May opens since 1940. The arrival of a 70(degrees) high Thursday--the first at that level here in 15 days--meant temps had surged 20(degrees) above Monday's 44(degrees) maximum.
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Dear Tom,
Driest spring here in 47 years, 8th driest since 1871
By all outward appearances, the area's spring moisture situation is just fine. But rain stats tell a different story.
Today
Chicago: Warming trend continues. Temps surge another 6-8(degrees) over yesterday's levels.
WEATHER HISTORY
Black Dragon Fire: Perhaps the largest forest fire in recorded history. It burned 28,000 square miles (half the area of Illinois) during April- May-June, 1987, from the Lake Baikal area of Siberia into north China.
Rock Island trains running again
Trains of the Metra Rock Island District were running again at midday as crews continued cleaning up a freight train derailment that blocked the commuter rail agency's tracks on Chicago's Near South Side.
1 dead, 3 hurt in stabbing outside restaurant
A 21-year-old Chicago man was killed and three other men were wounded in a stabbing attack in the parking lot of a White Castle restaurant on the city's West Side, authorities said.
Michigan Avenue reopened after closure
Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago was closed briefly this morning around the Chicago River bridge as police searched the area for possible bombs.
`The first and last chance for Emmett Till to speak for himself'
Fifty years ago, Mamie Till-Mobley demanded an open casket for her 14-year-old son so the world could see the brutality of Southern racism.
Daley's lips sealed on truck scandal
Though 15 months have passed since the first arrests in City Hall's Hired Truck scandal, Mayor Richard Daley said Wednesday he still doesn't know who in his administration installed the corrupt Angelo Torres as head of the trucking program.
New home to honor Soviet WWII vets
Abram Kashper loved his homeland so much that he volunteered to fight in the Great Patriotic War, as his Soviet countrymen called World War II. A multilingual interpreter, Kashper took part in daring raids across enemy lines to abduct top German officers and translated interrogations crucial to the war effort.
Mom gets 12 years in killing
Saying Irma Pavlis cannot blame anyone but herself for the beating death of the 6-year-old boy she adopted from a Russian orphanage, a judge sentenced the Schaumburg woman Wednesday to 12 years in prison.
Lottery blindly paid for ads
In the second case in two weeks of alleged mismanagement of state taxpayer funds, Auditor General William Holland said Wednesday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich's lottery department could not justify millions of dollars in payments to its prime ad agency.
Children's museum gets a boost
Since moving four years ago to a converted lumberyard near downtown Naperville, the DuPage Children's Museum has become one of the most popular such facilities in the state, drawing 300,000 visitors annually to two floors of kid-friendly, hands-on, educational exhibits.
Defender looking to 2nd century
With a folding card table, a borrowed chair and 25 cents for notebooks and pencils, Robert Abbott launched the Chicago Defender from the kitchen of his landlord's apartment on May 5, 1905.
Damaged school may be saved
An Ingleside elementary school that was condemned last year because of structural defects was days from demolition when it received a reprieve from a newly elected school board, officials said Wednesday.
Burke says he has stock in Wal-Mart
Despite sponsoring a proposal to regulate so-called "big box" stores such as Wal-Mart, Ald. Edward Burke (14th) reported reaping at least $5,000 in income from the Arkansas-based retail giant in 2004, according to financial disclosure statements released Wednesday.
Lawyer in solicitation trial suggests entrapment
More than three years after he was arrested, former CLTV and WGN Radio sports personality Robert Goldman went on trial Wednesday with prosecutors saying he sought sex with someone he believed was an underage girl he met online.
Blagojevich rips top cop's tirade
Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday scolded the state's top cop for criticizing a federal jury's verdict against Illinois State Police supervisors who allegedly thwarted a politically sensitive murder investigation.
Kane vote proposal is hot-button subject
A plan to swap Kane County's aging punch-card ballots for a $4 million, electronic touch-style voting system is seen as too complex by some and long overdue by others.
Resident lighted firework that led to blast, cops say
After consuming 10 beers, a Will County man had a notion to light a 10-inch commercial-grade firework in his living room, which led to an explosion and fire that injured him and his girlfriend and destroyed his rental house, authorities said Wednesday.
HARDLY RECORD-BREAKING, BUT MORE THAN 30 DEGREES WARMER THAN LAST WEEKEND
Chicago appears headed for its warmest weekend in 8 months. Not since Sept. 11-12 have a Saturday and Sunday both hosted 80(degrees) highs.
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Dear Tom,
String of chilly, sub-35(degrees) lows a first for early May
Temperatures continue rebounding Thursday--the area is in line for its first official 70(degrees) high in two weeks.
Today
Chicago: First daytime high to reach 70(degrees) since April 20! Generous sun, some incoming patches of fair-weather clouds.
WEATHER TERM
Soft day: In Ireland, an overcast, foggy, gray day with drizzle or misty rain but no heavy downpours.
05-04-05
Crash shuts down tollway
A crash involving a car and a semi-trailer truck shut down the Northwest Tollway in both directions at the height of this morning's rush hour, CLTV reported.
Judge to Lombardo: No deal
A letter purportedly penned by Joey "the Clown" Lombardo says the reputed mob boss would turn himself in if certain conditions were met--an offer swiftly rejected by a federal judge.
Event to discuss road improvements
The village will hold an open house from 4 to 8 p.m. May 12 in Village Hall, 1 N. Prospect Ave., to answer questions about the reconstruction of Chicago Avenue slated to begin this fall.
Teen suicide comes into focus
As he stood next to an enlarged photograph of his 16-year-old niece, Ken Meyers told the gathered teens to imagine that the girl with the sun-streaked brown hair and shy smile is their best friend.
Small town's troubles pile up
Richmond isn't Mayberry.
State's top cop rips jury verdict
A federal jury verdict last week against two Illinois State Police supervisors who allegedly thwarted a politically sensitive murder probe was "a blatant miscarriage of justice," according to an e-mail sent out by the state's top cop.
U.S. seizes more papers
Federal investigators have paid another visit to city offices again, this time taking records from the Department of Streets and Sanitation, Daley administration officials acknowledged Tuesday.
State OKs overhaul of Joliet hospital
Provena St. Joseph Medical Center can proceed with a massive overhaul and expansion of its Joliet facility, but a state board on Tuesday turned down for a second time Advocate Health Care of Oak Brook's request to build a hospital in Tinley Park.
County curtails excessive overtime
Cook County commissioners Tuesday unanimously approved a new policy that caps workers' overtime, although some commissioners questioned why the Stroger administration failed to act sooner to control runaway costs paid to employees.
$9 billion program for roads unveiled
With Congress still wrangling over a federal transportation bill, the state unveiled a six-year $9.15 billion highway improvement program that focuses on maintaining roads and keeping bridges in top shape but includes only modest plans for projects to help ease congestion, officials said Tuesday.
Senate weighs scenarios for school-funding taxes
Homeowners would see a 30 percent reduction in their property taxes and renters would get an income tax credit under the latest proposals being discussed in Springfield to overhaul how Illinois pays for public schools.
Younger Marzullo posts bail in beating
The son of former Berwyn Public Safety Director Frank Marzullo appeared in court Tuesday morning for the first time since he was indicted last week along with his father, uncle and two other men on charges they beat a 54-year-old man outside a Forest Park restaurant in early April.
Owner sues Libertyville over land near Metra stop
The owner of a 6.5-acre site near the Metra train station in Libertyville has sued the village, alleging that officials are trying to block sale of the property through the threat of condemnation.
Facing ad gripes, Loews to list movie start times
Some audience members just fume over their popcorn in silence when the pre-movie commercials start to roll, but state Rep. Jack Franks is the type who complains to the manager.
Chicago's temperatures appear poised to surge more than 50(degrees) over the next four days--from this morning's near
Chicago's temperatures appear poised to surge more than 50(degrees) over the next four days--from this morning's near 30(degrees) temp to 84(degrees) Sunday afternoon.
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May's never produced a colder temp in Illinois
There are indications that Illinois hosted its coldest May temperature ever Tuesday. More than a century of weather records exist in many parts of the state.
Today
Chicago: Frost and recordlevel chilly temps at daybreak, but a vigorous temp rebound ensues.
WEATHER WORD
Warning: A forecast issued by the National Weather Service indicating that a specific hazardous weather or hydrologic event is imminent or actually occurring.
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