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Chicago man crushes Ferris Wheel ride world record
A man from Chicago rode Ferris Wheel for more than two days - 384 times, up and around - to break the existing world record. Clinton Shepherd, a park operations manager of Chicago's Navy Pier, who spent 48 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds riding Navy Pier's Ferris wheel over the weekend, said that he thought that Chicago - birthplace of the ride - should have the title, People magazine ...
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Silverman Toews May Have Company But It’s Time To End His Slump
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Deadly Oklahoma Tornado Serves As Reminder To Prepare For Disasters
Carlos and Kim Caudillo stand in the debris of their home after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The tornado, reported to be at least EF4 strength and two miles wide, touched down in the Oklahoma City area on Monday killing at least 51 people. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty ...
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DeVry chairman stepping down in November
Harold Shapiro, former president of Princeton University and Michigan University. The chairman of DeVry Inc. said he would not stand for re-election at the educational firms next annual meeting of shareholders in November. Harold Shapiro, Downers Grove-based DeVrys (NYSE: DV) chairman since 2008, and a former president of the University of Michigan from 1980 to 1988, intends to retire at that ...
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Ofman It’s Time For Replay In Baseball
Major League Baseball is considering replay for every call except balls and strikes and you know that will fester its way into the game one day soon. The NFL looks at just about everything except plays in which Jay Cutler sneers at fellow teammates. Thank goodness it's not an infraction though someone in the rules committee with an axe to grind will probably suggest sneering become a ...
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Lightning Strikes Damage Two Homes Overnight
CHICAGO (CBS) – At least two homes in the Chicago area were struck by lightning overnight as heavy thunderstorms plowed through the region. CBS 2's Susanna Song reports strong winds, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning made for a very disruptive night in the Chicago area. Early Tuesday, the Cook County Board Up service was in the Little Village neighborhood, where at least one home ...
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Four Teens Wounded In Austin Shooting
CHICAGO (STMW) – Four people were hurt in a gang-related shooting after large groups of teenagers started fighting in the street Monday night in the West Side Austin neighborhood. About 9:30 p.m., someone in a light-colored sedan drove by the fight in the 5300 block of West Iowa Street and opened fire, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro ...
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Alleged Mugger Crashes Stolen Car Into Semi On I-80
JOLIET, Ill. (STMW) – Police say a Joliet man mugged two elderly women in different grocery stores before crashing a stolen car into a semi-truck on Saturday. Joliet Cmdr. Al Roechner said Matthew J. Boban's crime spree began at 11:55 a.m. when he arrived at Jewel, 1401 W. Jefferson St. Boban allegedly had asked a 32-year-old friend to bring him and his girlfriend to an ATM so he ...
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Police Seek Help Identifying Female Homicide Victim
CHICAGO (STMW) – Police are asking for help to identify the body of woman or teen girl found strangled and badly burned in a Northwest Side Avondale neighborhood Dumpster Sunday night. Firefighters found the charred body after putting out a Dumpster blaze in an alley in the 3100 block of North Kimball Avenue about 11:05 p.m. An autopsy Monday found the person was strangled, and ruled the ...
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Chicago Red Cross Joining Tornado Relief Effort In Oklahoma
People assess the damage after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. The tornado, reported to be at least EF4 strength and two miles wide, touched down in the Oklahoma City area on Monday killing at least 51 people. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty ...
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Boeheim on Melos title hopes Not on that team MAY 21
07:10 AM ET 05.21 | His former head coach has picked a side, and it's squarely in the corner of his one-time star forward. Jim Boeheim maintains little hope that former Syracuse ...
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Muhammad believes hes the best player in the draft MAY 21
07:09 AM ET 05.21 | While Shabazz Muhammad's draft stock may be slipping in some circles, he certainly hasn't lost any faith in himself. [The] weeks leading up to the June 27 draft will be about altering negative perceptions about his character and his game. "Being the number one guy, everybody wants you to fall," Muhammad said last week at the NBA draft combine in Chicago. ...
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Lakers chief rivals for Howard MAY 21
Dwight Howard 's version of The Decision. The pitches he will get after the second leg of this journey, the ones that will likely come from Houston, Dallas and Atlanta, among others (after July 1), will no doubt be very different. And yes, he intends to listen to those pitches, and no, he won't give ...
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Jackson wants Jack back ... but business is business MAY 21
Jarrett Jack . "As a coach I value everything that he did for this basketball team and not just on the basketball floor but off. He was incredible, he was a great leader, he as a voice, he was a big time competitor, he was a winner, he plays with an edge. He was instrumental in everything we did. I heard Bob talk about it earlier' being he's a free agent, it's not just about ...
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InnovateLTC will co-sponsor Chicago entrepreneur competition
Entrepreneurs working in the aging care sector will compete for $10,000 during the annual LINK long-term care conference, which runs July 22-24 in Chicago. As Business First reports, the Louisville-based Center for Long Term Care Innovation, a business incubator program for aging care startups thats more commonly known as InnovateLTC, will co-sponsor the competition with Connecticut-based ...
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From foster parent to full-on mom
Cedra Watson plays with Jalaya, 5, and Joshua, 7, as Jeremiah, 6, sorts through coloring pages in their Hyde Park home. Watson was a foster parent who adopted the ...
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Donald Trump may have met his match in Evanston grandmother
Donald Trump seems to relish an image as a no-nonsense businessman and boss, some might even say a bully. But the real estate mogul might have met his match in an Evanston grandmother who had humble beginnings growing up in a children's home. "Someone had to stand up to him," Jacqueline Goldberg testified Monday at a trial in Chicago that has drawn national attention because of ...
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Former Chicago police officer gets 18 years for drug conspiracy
With prosecutors seeking a 30-year prison term for him, former veteran Chicago narcotics cop Glenn Lewellen closed his eyes tightly and held his palms together in prayer Monday as the judge was about to announce his sentence on federal drug conspiracy charges. A smile cracked his lips as Lewellen heard his sentence: 18 years in federal prison. Moments later, as he was led away by deputy ...
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More poor in U.S. suburbs than cities report says
Once considered the definition of the middle-class American dream, the suburbs are now home to a larger, faster-growing poor population than urban areas, according to a new analysis. During the 2000s, the number of poor living in U.S. suburbs grew by 64 percent - more than twice the 29 percent growth rate in cities. Overall, 16.4 million poor people consider suburbia home, compared with 13.4 ...
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Summer vacation time not equal across Chicagoland
While many of her friends are stuck in school into June, Wauconda eighth-grader Alexandra Hayden plans to take advantage of her district's early summer break to beat the crowds at Six Flags Great America. "I'm going to party," said Alexandra, who is finishing her last year at Matthews Middle School. "The good part is, Great America is open, so there will be no lines ...
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Red Line rides out first weekday of construction project
CTA commuters talk about their public transit experience now that Red Line is closed from Cermak/Chinatown through 95th Street, until October ...
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Chamber honors small businesses
h annual Small Business of the Year Awards gala. The overall winner this year was Naperville Dental Specialists and General Oral Health Care, which also took home the award in the Professional category. In other categories Paul Gregory Media won for Business-to-Business, Players Indoor Sports won for Business-to-Consumer, Giving DuPage won for Not-for-Profit and Le Chocolat du Bouchard won for ...
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Schaumburg cop suspended investigated for gun missing heroin
A Schaumburg police officer has been suspended with pay for allegedly keeping a gun that had been turned in to the department, and the same officer also faces scrutiny for a case involving heroin that allegedly went missing from a crime scene, police said. The officer, who was not identified by police, was on front-desk duty April 23 when two people came in to turn in a .22-caliber revolver, ...
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Tim West reporter 1946-2013
A versatile journalist, Tim West spent his entire career covering Naperville for the Naperville Sun. Mr. West covered local government bodies, took photos, wrote columns and immersed himself in the life of his community. "Tim cared deeply about quality journalism, and he understood the importance of the press being a responsible community watchdog," said Judy Hostert-Harvey, managing ...
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Quinn No new casinos without pension reform
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn appeared before the Chicago Tribune editorial board Monday morning to discuss pension reform. (Posted on: May 20, ...
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Thorne Miniature Rooms go fictional
If you live in Chicago and do not know about the Thorne Miniature Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, then you must have been living under the proverbial rock before you came across this article.
The Thorne rooms are one of the most famous museum exhibits in the city. They are a collection of 68 rooms contained within glass boxes and are notable because each room is constructed at a 1-inch to 1-foot scale and all 68 rooms together display a range of historical periods from various cultures. Read more
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