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Most Cook County residents have done their best to be good but ended up with a lump of coal before stockings had even been hung by the fire - the second instalment Property Tax bills due December 1st.

On the eve of Veterans Day, Gov. Pat Quinn announced the site of the Illinois Veterans' Home at Chicago, a 200-bed facility that will begin construction in 2010.

A CTA bus plowed into the side of a brick house in the Far South Side Morgan Park neighborhood sending four people -- including the bus driver -- to area hospitals Tuesday morning.

Some of you didn't get why the dress code -- which led to six Washington University students being banned from the Original Mother's bar on Rush Street -- sparked an outcry.

Beecher :: Crete :: Monee :: Chicago Heights :: South Chicago Heights :: Steger :: 2 charged in Chicago Hts firebombing Comments November 5, 2009 BY CASEY TONER Bail was set today for two Chicago men accused of tossing Molotov cocktails into a Chicago Heights clothing store.

More Chicago Public Schools students will have an opportunity to learn Arabic thanks to a grant from the U.S. government.

Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods and Patricia Sullivan, manager of the city's Chicago Neighborhood Tours program, said visitors need to leave the tourist-heavy Loop and Michigan Avenue areas to really see the different ethnic and cultural corners of the city.

December oats were unchanged at $2.54 a bushel. In other trading, beef and pork futures mostl9 dropped on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

A 16-year-old boy was found shot to death in a parked car Sunday night in the Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.

Share + Nov 5, 2009 10:42 am US/Central CICERO, Ill. A Chicago teen who was in a coma for nearly two weeks after being shot inside a car in west suburban Cicero died early Thursday.

Chicago continues to fret over the possibility of losing the NPE trade show. Freelance columnist and blogger Dennis Byrne tackles the topic in a Nov.

Chicago gets its new area code -- 872 -- on Saturday, and that means you'll have to dial 1 plus the area code to make even a local call in the city.

Share + Nov 8, 2009 2:36 pm US/Central Three men and one woman were hospitalized early Sunday morning after a shooting in a Chicago Housing Authority lot on the Near North Side.

Two men who led police on a chase following a shooting in southwest suburban Burbank early Saturday are in custody - after their vehicle ran out of gas.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 10:44 am US/Central Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis said Friday he is "extremely nervous" that a wave of police retirements next year -- after an arbitrator rules on the new police contract -- will stretch a burgeoning manpower shortage beyond levels he considers safe.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 4:02 pm US/Central A glitch in a computer control room left Chicago Police Headquarters without phone or Internet access for several hours Saturday afternoon.

If Tweets are to be believed, comedienne and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres will be in Chicago on Friday, and the city is apparently invited.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 10:23 am US/Central Police arrested two men and two women earlier this week who allegedly ran a lottery ticket scam that targeted elderly Hispanic victims.

Share + Nov 7, 2009 10:52 am US/Central Three teens were shot at a party in the Southeast Side South Chicago neighborhood early Saturday by two gunmen who asked about gang affiliations before firing shots.

The FAA is investigating whether or not a chunk of blue ice that fell from the sky Wednesday night and damaged a North Side home could have come from a plane.