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Aldermen agree to pay more for Red Gate traffic light
After some disagreement, St. Charles aldermen decided in the end to pick up most of the cost of a traffic light near Red Gate Bridge and St. Charles North High School. Although District 303 officials were expected to split the cost of the light, the school board last month decided to only fund $125,000 of the $570,000 project, leaving several aldermen unhappy. On Monday night, however, the ...
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Blackhawks Shut Out In Game 3 Bruins Take 2-1 Cup Series Lead
BOSTON (AP) -Tuukka Rask shut out the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals on Monday night and got enough help from the Bruins’ offense to do it without another exhausting overtime. After playing four extra periods in the first two games, the Bruins made an early night of it with second-period goals by Daniel Paille and Patrice Bergeron to win 2-0 and take a 2-1 lead in ...
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Do LeBron James’ New Shoes Say ’2-Time Champion’
(CBS) 2-time champion, huh? Check out the picture of the sockliner in James’ new shoes… It certainly looks like it says ';2-time champion.'; Well, LeBron James, not quite yet. While James may in fact become a two-time NBA champion one day, it’s certainly not a foregone conlcusion. After all, if the Spurs win tonight, it’s going to be at least a year until ...
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Bakery Blunder Makes ‘Cat Cake’ A Viral Sensation
The Zionsville mother provided a photo of Laura and requested a graduation-themed design, including a ';cap'; on top of Laura’s head. Well, the bakery obviously misunderstood, as you can see from the above photo. Good for the Gambrels that they saw the humor in all of it. They left ';cat cake'; alone, although the bakery reportedly offered to fix the mistake. ...
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Bruins-Blackhawks Bad Blood Boils Over In Final Minute Of Game 3
BOSTON (CBS) — Hate has found its way into the Stanley Cup Final. After nearly three full games (13 periods), the Bruins and Blackhawks got past their pleasantries and engaged in a full-on brawl in the waning seconds of Game 3. With roughly 20 seconds to go and the Bruins leading 2-0, Zdeno Chara dumped Bryan Bickell to the ice on front of the Boston net. Bickell tugged on Chara’s ...
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District 15 approves lease for iPad 4 tablets
Community Consolidated School District 15 will start rolling out iPad 4 tablets this fall after board members approved a three-year lease for $1.6 million last ...
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Lake Forest agrees to transfer ownership of senior cottages
Jim Combs says he intends to stay in Lake Forest until the day he dies. Combs didn't grow up in this affluent, North Shore suburb. But after living in a half a dozen other cities throughout his life, he and his wife, Marilyn, decided to move here about five years ago. They wanted to live closer to their daughter and three grandchildren, who live across town. "I ain't moving no ...
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‘Kane Is A Weenie’ Is A Wireless Network At TD Garden
Check out the name of a wireless network at TD Garden – home of the Boston Bruins. Whether or not Kane is a weenie is irrelevent, now. The Blackhawks are down 2-1 to the Bruins and are in serious ...
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Search Dog Tracks Missing Student To Lakefront
CHICAGO (CBS) – Volunteers, friends and family were out in force Tuesday morning, resuming the search for a missing University of Chicago student. CBS 2's Susanna Song reports Austin Hudson-Lapore was last seen on Wednesday. Early Tuesday, his father was walking up and down the lakefront, looking for any signs of his son as the search continued. Searchers said they were very ...
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Smart Phone Users Over Pay For Data Plans CUB
An analysis by the Citizens Utility Board and wireless industry research firm Validas finds Illinois smart phone users are spending $194 more than they should each year on data plans. That adds up to almost $1.5 ...
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Wheeling will consider assault weapon ban
Wheeling trustees want the chance to vote on a municipal ordinance banning assault weapons, like these on display earlier this year in a gun shop in ...
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Zachary Fardon Chicagos Next U.S. Attorney Faces Urgent Dilemma Corruption Or Crime
In this May 26, 2004 file photo, prosecutor Zachary Fardon is seen outside the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tenn. On Thursday, May 23, 2013, the Obama administration picked Fardon, a private attorney and former federal prosecutor, to head the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago. The U.S. Senate must confirm Fardon's nomination. (AP Photo/John Russell, ...
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Glittery Substance That Forced Beach Closure Identified
CHICAGO (CBS) – Indiana environmental officials were investigating whether a Porter County manufacturer was responsible for a slick of glittery material that closed Porter Beach on Monday. "The material that was found in Lake Michigan yesterday, we do know that it's tri-calcium orthophosphate," said Dan Goldblatt, spokesman for the Indiana Department of Environmental ...
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2013 Chicago Area July 4th Fireworks Shows
Barrington will have fireworks at dusk on July 4, in downtown Barrington by the North Train Commuter Lot. The fireworks are most viewable from the lawn of Barrington High ...
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Chicago Shootings Leave 8 Dead Over 47 Injured
shootings in Chicago this weekend left 53 people injured and nine dead. According to the Chicago Tribune, the victims included teens, including a 16-year-old who tried to flee from a gunman riding a bicycle. The youngest victim was 15-year-old Michael Westley, who was gunned down by police on Sunday night. Police stated what Westley was armed, and pointed a gun a them. The shootings are being ...
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Former Hammond Teacher’s Guilty Plea To Go Through
HAMMOND, Ind. (STMW) – A former Hammond high school teacher will move forward with pleading guilty to possessing pornographic images of two former students, the Post-Tribune reports. Attorneys in the case against Jon Erik Lilly, 27, of Cedar Lake, filed an amended plea agreement Monday in the U.S. District Court in Hammond. The new agreement says that in exchange for Lilly pleading ...
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Car Crashes Into Couple’s Bedroom In Sauk Village
A car crashed into a bedroom in Sauk Village on June 18, 2013, and a wheel from the car ended up dangling over a couple’s head as they were in bed. (Credit: Captured ...
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Video On First 2 Pitches In Cubs Debut Rodriguez Hits Umpire Beltran
Rodriguez, though he possesses a strong arm, has struggled with control throughout the duration of his young career. And it looks like a new jersey hasn’t changed that fact. During his Cubs debut Monday night, Rodriguez hit an umpire with his first pitch before nailing Carlos Beltran with his second ...
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Ticket Scalpr comes home to Chicago
Ticket Scalpr, a Chicago-based startup whose mobile application allows consumers to buy and sell last-minute tickets for events, has launched in its local market after testing the concept in San Francisco.The company's founder is Patrick O'Brien, a 25-year-old Mount Prospect native and former Groupon employee. He had joined the Chicago-based daily deals company as a sales ...
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Dad of missing Chicago student says motorist may have seen him- Missing Idaho woman found by farmer alive in field
The father of a missing University of Chicago student says a motorist saw a young man who resembles his son, but the search for the 20-year-old junior continues. Gregg LaPore told FOX 32 that someone resembling his son, Austin Hudson-LaPore, was spotted by a motorist in Chicago's South Loop section sometime last weekend. "We're hoping that somebody out in your viewing audience, ...
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Police circle high-crime boxes in Chicago
Under a strategy to saturate high-crime areas, some Chicago police officers, depending on their rank and seniority, can make as much as $70 an hour with time-and-a-half ...
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Mother finally feels free after charges dismissed in death of son
Nicole Harris, 31, gets a hug Monday from Marjorie B. Moss of Northwestern University’s Bluhm Legal Clinic after learning that the Cook County state’s attorney’s office would not retry her on a charge of murder in the 2005 death of her 4-year-old ...
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Ex-Stroger aide goes on trial in kickbacks case
A top aide hired by former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger in the waning days of his administration launched a scheme with another aide to steal about $300,000 using fraudulent contracts and kickbacks paid in cash-stuffed envelopes, prosecutors said as her bench trial began Monday. "Unusual things" began to happen after Carla Oglesby became Stroger's deputy chief of ...
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Rapper Chief Keef arrested shortly after leaving court in speeding case
Monday was not a good day for rapper Chief Keef.It started with him being served with his second paternity suit in a year as he waited outside a Skokie courtroom, where a brief time later he pleaded guilty to speeding along the Edens Expressway.And shortly after he left the courthouse, police arrested him on a month-old trespassing ...
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Huppke Im tweeting my life story no time to worry about NSA privacy case
Hi, my name is Rex Huppke. You might remember me from the hundreds of times my name has appeared in this large, metropolitan newspaper and on its website, or from the thousands of posts I've made on my Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Tumblr pages. There should also be a picture of me floating somewhere around this column. Now that we're acquainted, I want you to ...
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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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