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Surfer Chemical Slicks Common On NW Indiana Beaches
CHICAGO (CBS) – Environmental authorities in Indiana said preliminary results have found that an additive used in food and fertilizer and a metal cleaning agent were in the slick found on the lake this week. Someone who spends a lot of time on the lake doesn’t believe it was an isolated incident. "It's been a dirty week for Lake Michigan," said Basil Tydings, an East ...
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LeBron Leads Heat To Game 6 OT Win
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Guardian Angels Patrol Blue Line Stop Near Scene Of Sexual Assault
CHICAGO (CBS) – Members of the Guardian Angels were patrolling near a CTA Blue Line station on the Northwest Side on Wednesday, two days after a woman was sexually assaulted along a heavily-traveled walkway in the Mayfair neighborhood. Around 10 p.m. Monday, a 24-year-old woman was walking on a landscaped path that leads from the 4500 block of West Agatite Avenue to the 4500 block of West ...
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Creative Control Chicago Hate Culture Kanye West’s ‘Yeezus’
Yeezus , is stark, abrasive and combative. It is not "minimalist," even by Kanye standards; but after the grandiose orchestral production that ...
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Park Ridge labor contract in dispute
A month after Park Ridge aldermen reaffirmed a new contract with an employees' union, members are claiming its provisions are not being adhered to by the city.Local 150 of the International Union of Operating Engineers said paychecks were hit with $68 more for health insurance co-payments since May 1, but new salary rates were not included as of that date.The contract had not been signed by ...
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Homer Glen plan commissioners learn about open meetings
Homer Glen Plan Commission member Tom Bernicky, left, receives Open Meetings Act training this week with Kevin Hoffmeister, the commission ...
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Stormwater-detention area worries Lake Forest residents
Lake Forest residents Betty Pierret, from left, Bruce Bennett, Patrick Lumpton and Hildo Hoogcarspel shared their concerns about District 115's plan for a stormwater-detention ...
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Lawmakers expected to use special session to punt pension reform to committee
Illinois Senate President John Cullerton is expected to join with House Speaker Michael Madigan in approving a conference committee of lawmakers from both parties to reach a compromise on pension ...
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For 2nd time woman gives Chicago athlete 1-finger salute
A Boston Bruins fan aims some anger toward Chicago Blackhawks center Dave Bolland during Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday at the TD Garden in ...
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Professional naming by the numbers
Recent columns On Tuesday I called Matt Gordon to find out more about how Chicago's ambitious new park, previously known as the Bloomingdale Trail, got rebranded as the 606. I was at my laptop in ZIP code 60614. He was at his office at Landor Associates, ZIP code 60601, where he invents names for a living. Gordon, a linguistics major in college, has helped name things big and small. ...
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Witness Ex-Cook County Board head gave deputy signatory power
Former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger's name was raised repeatedly Tuesday at the criminal trial of his former deputy chief, whose alleged theft of $300,000 in taxpayer money appeared to have been helped along by his authority. Soon after the county rejected attempts from Carla Oglesby to award emergency contracts, Stroger signed paperwork making Oglesby a signatory on the ...
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CTA unveils artwork destined for 7 Red Line stations
Commuters on the Red Line's north branch will notice a new splash of color at seven stations by the end of the year.The CTA on Tuesday revealed renderings of the artwork during an event at the Granville station. The agency chose seven artists to carry out the project after 297 applied in the fall.The seven are Chicago artists Thomas Denlinger, Jim Bachor, Dorothy Hughes and Lynn Basa and ...
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2 naval landing craft on auction block at Great Lakes
The auction of the LCM-8s, also known as Mike Boats, began Tuesday morning and runs through 4 p.m. Thursday on govliquidation.com — search for ';Illinois.'; Bids started at $25, but had reached $6,000 and $6,150 by Tuesday ...
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Oak Lawn cancels pensions for part-time officeholders
The move to eliminate pensions for part-time officeholders was backed by newly elected Mayor Sandra Bury and the slate of board members who campaigned with her this ...
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Oily substance in lake baffles investigators
The U.S. Coast Guard and Indiana environmental officials continued Tuesday to investigate the origins of a silvery substance that was found in southern Lake Michigan, causing some beaches to clear bathers from the water.Swimmers along Porter Beach at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore came out of the water Monday afternoon with an "oily substance" on their bodies and saw a silver ...
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Mourners remember Darien murder-suicide victims as loving family
The Andrus family was mourned together Tuesday at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Lemont. Authorities say David Andrus fatally shot his wife and daughters last week before turning the gun on ...
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Plastic bag ban goes before aldermen
Environmentalists came to City Hall on Tuesday to support a proposal to ban plastic bags at Chicago stores, a move retailers say will hurt businesses unless they charge shoppers up to 10 cents for each paper bag that's used instead.Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who is in Israel this week, is trying to get more information on the environmental and economic impact of a bag ban, according to his ...
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Dr. Gertrude M. Novak 1928-2013
Gertrude Novak fled the Nazis as a girl, leaving her native Vienna with one of her sisters just before Germany annexed Austria. Moving first to England and later to New York, she eventually gained an Ivy League education, attended medical school and became a pathologist at Cook County Hospital. In her early 50s, Dr. Novak shifted gears to become a family practice doctor at the hospital. Dr. ...
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Village finds temporary worker to fill staffing needs
Since February, Tinley Park has relied on a temp worker to fill a hole in the village treasurer's office, leasing an accountant from a business based in Deerfield. That company, GovTempsUSA, "focuses on providing staffing resources to local governments nationwide," according to its mission statement. Tinley Park Treasurer Brad Bettenhausen said the village has long-term budget ...
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Orland Park looks to alleviate flooding along 143rd Street
The thunderstorms that hit Orland Park last week were a springtime shower compared to the mid-April storms that dumped up to seven inches of rain in parts of the Chicago area. But they did cause minor flooding along 143rd Street just west of Wolf Road. Village officials and local businesses described the flooding as a recurring problem, one that the village is looking at how to fix. "It ...
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Former Lake Zurich trustee appointed to open position
Newly appointed Lake Zurich Trustee Jonathan Sprawka said keeping the village headed in the right direction with its downtown redevelopment efforts will be his top priority.Sprawka, 32, who served in the same role from 2009 until earlier this year, was appointed to the seat that was vacated when Trustee Tom Poynton was elected mayor in April. Board members unanimously approved the choice at ...
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Striking similarity of dying words
Maggie Callanan, a longtime hospice nurse and co-author of a book on dying, said patients often say the same things as they approach death if they talk, and she believes such patients are getting a glimpse of life after ...
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CPS leader predicts happier ties with teachers union
Chicago Public Schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett offered an upbeat vision of the district's future during an event Tuesday night, a dramatically different take from that given by Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis in a speech earlier in the day. Byrd-Bennett, speaking at the Chase Auditorium downtown as part of the Tribune's "Chicago Forward" series, went so far ...
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CTU chief Racism and inequality hurting Chicago schools
In the wake of recent school closings and teacher layoffs, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis took aim Tuesday at the two R’s of her education reform effort - racism and revenue. Lewis, speaking to the City Club of Chicago, did not directly criticize Mayor Rahm Emanuel. But she went after his kitchen cabinet of educational advisers as wealthy "elites" from the venture ...
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Plainfield man on trial for murder in Door County Wis.
The trial of a southwest suburban man accused of killing his girlfriend and then sexually assaulting her corpse began Monday in Door County, Wis., where the alleged killing took place last summer, authorities said Tuesday. Brian M. Cooper, 36, of the 2400 block of Oak Tree Lane in Plainfield, faces two felony charges of first-degree intentional homicide and one felony charge of third degree ...
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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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