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Blackhawks Hold Optional Practice With Season On The Line
UNITED CENTER (CBS) Facing elimination Saturday night at the United Center, the Blackhawks held a full team meeting Friday before an optional practice. Twelve players took the ice for the optional skate that did not include head coach Joel Quenneville. ';We talked about the situation and where we’re at,'; Quenneville said about the team meeting. ';I thought it was very ...
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Lyric Opera of Chicago mum for now about Oklahoma ticket sales
Ashley Brown and John Cudia starred in in Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of "Oklahoma!". The just-concluded run of the classic American musical "Oklahoma!" was uncharted territory for the prestigious Lyric Opera of Chicago. It was the first time the opera company had produced an extended engagement of a musical separate from its regular season ...
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United offering more premium perks from New York
United Airlines says it now offers flat-bed seats and on-demand personal entertainment systems in premium cabins on every international flight from New York area airports. No matter what the surveys say about the quality of its service, Chicago-based United Airlines is charging ahead with upgrades of its service in a variety of ways. Today, United bragged that it is now the only United ...
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Illinois Medical District plans ambitious expansion
The Illinois Medical District is planning an expansion that could create 2,500 to 4,500 jobs and more than $300 million in new revenue in the next 10 years, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Plans include the development of 55 vacant acres and building a high-speed fiber optic line linking researchers to the University of Illinois supercomputer and a retail, hotel, restaurant, office and ...
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Plan B taps Joe Popa as its first group creative director
Joe Popa is Plan B ad agency's first group creative director. Plan B the Alternative Agency has hired Joe Popa as its first-ever group creative director. Previously a creative within the DraftFCB and Rivet agency networks, Popa now will oversee creative and design across Plan B's client roster at the agency headquarters in Chicago and a satellite office in San Francisco. Popa will report ...
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Barrington Crash raises urgency for changes at CN crossing
Barrington officials say Thursday's rush-hour collision between a freight train and a semitrailer truck on Route 14 only strengthens their argument for a grade separation at the railroad crossing. Village President Karen Darch and Village Manager Jeff Lawler say at least the point didn't have to be made more tragically. Two people were taken to Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital with ...
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Ealys fate now rests in the hand of the jury
James Ealy's fate now rests in the hands of a jury. Following three days of testimony, prosecutors and defense attorneys performed their closing arguments for about three hours in a cool Lake County courtroom early Friday ...
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Illinois House approves guns plan opposed by governor
Illinois Rep. Brandon Phelps, D-Harrisburg, testifies during a House Committee hearing on concealed carry gun legislation at the Illinois State Capitol ...
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No Evidence Chicago Red Light Cameras Based on Safety -- System Made $71 Million Last Year
Red light camera at a Chicago intersection. (AP) (CNSNews.com) - Contrary to its claims, the City of Chicago's red light cameras are not based on safety, according to an Inspector General (IG) audit of the program that brought in more than $71 million in revenue for the city last year. ...
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Unions target board members after they close nearly 11 of Chicagos elementary schools
Barbara Byrd-Bennett Forty-eight of the 50 elementary schools the Chicago Public Schools board of education voted to close Wednesday will be shuttered in June. The other two will get short reprieves. For all but one of the schools the vote was unanimous. Most of the 27,000 students affected are black and Latino and all live in poor neighborhoods. As they have for months, protesters objected to ...
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Demolition begins at vacant downtown Jewel
Bulldozers have arrived at the former Jewel Osco site in downtown Wheaton, demolishing the building that has been vacant for several years. It'll make way for a new DuPage Medical Group building, which is expected to bring in new jobs and more activity into the city's downtown. "It's funny, for the last four or five years, very little development had taken place in Wheaton, ...
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Highland Park resident wins prize to meet Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller talks with fans following game five of the first round of the 2013 NBA Playoffs between the New York Knicks and the Boston ...
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Jell-O social media campaign plays with profane hashtag
Fat-Free Jell-o Pudding Snacks, Kraft Foods, Inc. products, photographed at a grocery store. Jell-O, a Kraft Foods Group brand, has launched a new social media advertising campaign thats raising eyebrows for its attempt to redefine a bit of profane Twitter shorthand. The web site jelloFML.com posts a live feed of tweets using the #FML hashtag and proclaims that Jell-O wants to turn the sentiment ...
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Tribune names de Castro WGN president and GM
The Tribune Co. has named radio veteran Jimmy de Castro as president and general manager of WGN-AM Radio, beginning June 3. De Castro will be responsible for the station's overall strategy, execution, and day-to-day management and operations, and will report to Larry Wert, Tribune's president of Broadcast Media. De Castro said in a statement he was determined to continue to grow WGNs ...
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SHS teacher Chris Salituro to officiate ex-students wedding
Nearly 13 years after Stevenson High School sociology teacher Chris Salituro paired students Matt Peota and Rikki Himmelfarb together for a project, the veteran teacher will officiate their wedding this Saturday. "He's the foundation of (our) relationship," Himmelfarb told the Daily ...
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Gurnee wants deadbeats to pay $1.5 milllion in red-light camera violation fines
Gurnee's red-light camera intersections include Hunt Club Road and Grand Avenue. The village is owed about $1.5 million in photo enforcement fines and has turned to a state agency's program for assistance to collect the ...
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New Moraine Township supervisor settles in
Anne Flanigan Bassi may be a politician, but that was never her goal in life.The former Lake County Commissioner recently moved into her next public role, as Moraine Township Supervisor. In an interview with the Tribune, she looked back at nearly three decades of public service.She traces her community involvement to one event. "When my kids were young and the park district at the time was ...
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Orland officials try to less concerns at La Grange Rd meeting
IDOT officials and area residents and business owners gather around a map of the La Grange Road widening project during a May 21 informational meeting at the Orland Park Civic ...
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Two Shot Near Roosevelt CTA Station
Police said, around 11:10 a.m., a 57-year-old man and a 30-year-old man were shot in the 1100 block of South State Street. The Roosevelt stops for the CTA’s Red, Green and Orange Line trains are about a block away. The Red Line station is a subway stop connected to the elevated station for the Green and Orange Lines. Both victims suffered graze wounds, police said. Both were taken to ...
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Memorial Day Weekend Gas Prices Up From Last Year
CHICAGO (CBS) – You’ll find gas prices averaging higher than they were a year ago at this time. In the Chicago area, the AAA says gasoline prices average $4.20 a gallon. According to Jack Gerard of the American Petroleum Institute, the national average price for gasoline is $3.65 a gallon, which is 55 cents a gallon less than the Chicago area. But, he said you can stretch your fuel ...
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Cantankerous Critic ‘Fast Furious 6′ Is Audacious But Just Plain Dumb
';Fast & Furious 6″ is just as ludicrously implausible as its predecessors, with only a fraction of Fast Five's gonzo energy. It turns the international street racers of the earlier films into a cross between the gang from "Mission Impossible" and "The A-Team." So instead of chasing illegal thrills, they're chasing international terrorists through the ...
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Chance the Rapper High Times and Wild Nights in Chicago
Todd Diederich On an unseasonably warm Friday evening in May, minutes before facing the biggest hometown crowd of his young career, Chance the Rapper races a skateboard around the barren downtown-Chicago office space that's temporarily doubling as his dressing room. The 20-year-old rapper – dressed in a gray LDRS hoodie, black skinny jeans and mismatched plaid shoes – cracks ...
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Pedestrian crossing closed at Lake Forest Metra stop
Union Pacific Railroad recently closed the pedestrian crossing at the downtown Metra station in Lake Forest in an attempt to improve safety, according to railroad and city officials. Mark Davis, a Union Pacific spokesman, said an engineering team removed the crossing and extended over it the wire fence that runs between the two tracks May 18. He explained that railroad officials deemed it a ...
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Revised deal still a gain for parking meter vendor analysis finds
Chicago Tribune City Hall reporter Hal Dardick discusses the proposed amendments to parking meter deal that was entered under former Mayor Richard Daley. (Posted: May 24, ...
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Birdman Flying High For The Heat
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – While the majority of the focus of the thrilling Heat victory in Game 1 will be on LeBron James’ incredible play at the end of the game, there’s another player who was just as key to the Heat getting the win to open the series: Chris Andersen. Andersen set a career high with field goals made and points by going 7-7 and scoring 16 points in the Heat’s ...
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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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