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U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 9:57am neoform

www.officer.com -- It was Rocio Palacios who first noticed the woman who appeared to need help. It was 8 a.m. when she and her husband, Erasmo, dropped their 6-year-old daughter off at school and had picked up their 22-year-old daughter to go out for breakfast when they.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 2:57pm neoform

CNN -- The city's planning board has endorsed a proposal for a twisting lakefront tower that would become the nation's tallest building. With Thursday's approval from the Chicago Plan Commission, the design and site plan for the 2,000-foot Chicago Spire goes.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CBS News -- A Chicago woman sued Menu Foods on Tuesday, alleging the pet food manufacturer delayed announcing a recall of 60 million containers of dog and cat food despite knowing its products were contaminated and potentially deadly. Dawn Majerczyk, 43, said her.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 24, 2006 @ 8:26am neoform

ABC News -- As if there weren't enough concerns about the integrity of the vote, a non-partisan civic organization today claimed it had hacked into the voter database for the 1.35 million voters in the city of Chicago... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 8, 2007 @ 1:47am neoform

CNN -- Organizers shut down the course four hours after the start of Sunday's Chicago Marathon because of 88-degree heat and sweltering humidity that left one runner dead and sent at least 49 to area hospitals. Another 250 were treated at the site. Chad Schi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 9:17am neoform

Yahoo News -- Videotapes of angry officers savagely beating civilians and charges that a murder plot was hatched within an elite special operations unit have Chicago's troubled police department reeling again. Adding to the department's woes is word from federal pro.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

CBS News -- A federal jury found five aging men guilty Monday in a racketeering conspiracy that involved decades of extortion, loan sharking and murder aimed at rubbing out anyone who dared stand in the way of the ruthless Chicago mob. The verdicts capped an extra.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 4:51am neoform

FOX News -- This week, on the streets of Chicago, a shadowy group of "assassins" is on the loose. But don’t panic. They’re stalking each other not with actual weapons but with water guns — and it’s all a big game. StreetWars, as the wet multi-city spree.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 18, 2007 @ 11:26am neoform

CNN -- It seemed like a good idea at the time. A gang of burglars decided in December 1977 to break into the home of Tony Accardo, one of the most powerful men in organized crime history, and rob his basement vault. Accardo was not amused. Six men Accardo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 28, 2007 @ 9:08am neoform

FOX News -- A police officer has been arrested in the off-duty beating of a 15-year-old high school student, the Chicago Police Department said Sunday. Robert Gallegos, who is charged with aggravated battery, appeared on closed-circuit television Sunday afternoon.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 8:03pm neoform

FOX News -- A frozen product labeled monkfish distributed in three states is being recalled after two Chicago area people became ill after eating it, the importer announced Thursday. Hong Chang Corporation of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., said it is recalling the prod.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 11, 2007 @ 1:20am neoform

FOX News -- Five passengers were shot while riding a Chicago Transit Authority bus on the city's South Side on Thursday, authorities said. Two teenage boys and one girl were transported in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, said fire.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 11:28am neoform

FOX News -- Former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun suffered a broken wrist when a mugger tried to steal her purse, authorities said Saturday. Braun, 59, was standing at her front door late Friday when an assailant came out of the bushes.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 26, 2007 @ 4:54pm neoform

CNN -- Authorities are investigating claims that six off-duty Chicago police officers were captured on video assaulting four men in a bar, the second report of police involved in an assault to surface in a week. Adam Mastrucci, Scott Lowrance and brothers Aar.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 26, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

FOX News -- Authorities are investigating claims that six off-duty Chicago police officers were captured on video assaulting four men in a bar, the second report of police involved in an assault to surface in a week. Adam Mastrucci, Scott Lowrance and brothers Aar.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 3:48pm neoform

FOX News -- Golf course workers uncovering the tees for the season discovered a human skull at a suburban Chicago club and found bones nearby in the fairway, authorities said. The skull was spotted Monday near the 14th tee of the Prairie Course, one of two 18-hole.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 9:29am mrmdc

ABC News -- This was the Rex Grossman that the Chicago Bears and their fans feared. When the Bears needed a clutch throw to catch up in the fourth quarter, their quarterback couldn't connect... Read More