A 22-year-old man was charged with murder in the execution-style shooting of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in a South Side alley last November and a woman killed before that in the same ongoing South Side gang conflict.
A third person has been arrested and charged in a Feb. 27 home invasion and kidnapping case in which a teen was beaten and burned with cigarettes, Elgin police said Monday. About 8:45 p.m. Sunday, police arrested Kassandra Delgado, 20, of the 500 block of Levine Court in Elgin.
One of the president's duties is to declare official disaster areas, but presidential hopeful Donald Trump has designated plenty of unofficial ones.
They were just four words, but they denoted something that led to a wonderful swerve in world history. They were words Ronald Reagan repeatedly used when referring to something that happened long before he spoke his most famous four words: "Tear down this wall." The other four words described the...
Americans today face a profound challenge to preserve our common values and national promise. Wage stagnation at home and our declining influence abroad have left Americans angry and frustrated. And yet Washington, D.C., offers nothing but gridlock and partisan finger-pointing. Worse, the current...
Apprenticeships, long a tool of the construction trades, are getting a good look by insurance and financial services leaders as a way to groom skilled workers and grow the talent pool.
With student debt now totaling about $1.2 trillion and pay for recent college graduates stuck in the doldrums, scams targeting people struggling with student loans have been proliferating and now rank in the top 10 consumer scams in Illinois, Attorney General Lisa Madigan said Monday.
United Continental Holdings President and CEO Oscar Munoz, who has been recuperating from a heart transplant since January, will return to work full time on March 14, the airline announced Sunday.
In two recent columns, I've written about and shared your views on kindness in the workplace. (I promise I will eventually return to more important topics, like how to get revenge on your work enemy; proper etiquette for a break room doughnut stampede; and the tyranny of pants.) But for now, I'm...
It's time for Jeff Tanaka to file for overtime pay. The Bulls' head athletic trainer got a workout before, during and after their 100-90 victory over the Bucks on Monday night at the United Center. And while Tanaka's activity merely continued the snakebitten trend of recent seasons, the Bulls have...
After years of disappointment and nearly constant turmoil, Illinois football players were wary of believing the rumors and reports until their next head coach walked through the door of the Memorial Stadium meeting room.
Based on his $5 million salary, outfielder Austin Jackson qualifies as the White Sox's biggest free-agent signing. But in an offseason when teams handed out eight- and nine-figure contracts like Tic Tacs, Jackson's modest salary doesn't even assure him of an everyday spot in the lineup. Manager...
Matthew Drew goes to work in a building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. It is a firehouse and Drew is a firefighter, one of 4,800-some other dedicated people in Chicago who share this precarious profession. "I love my job," he says. "There is no job on Earth any better." He lives across the city,...
Each year, on a freely lubricated Saturday night during the True/False film festival, several hundred moviegoers settle in at the Blue Note on Ninth Street, a onetime vaudeville-house-turned-music-venue-turned-temporary-screening emporium. They're there to be messed with. They're there for a so-called...
Spoiler alert: Do not read until you've watched the series finale of "Downton Abbey," season 6, episode 9, airing March 6. Edith got married! Anna and Bates had a baby! Even Barrow got what he wanted -- the butler job at Downton Abbey. Happy endings abounded for all the residents of Downton, upstairs...
Ahead of International Women's Day, which is Tuesday, a Chicago law firm asked me to speak at a luncheon on a topic near and dear to my heart: the power of female friendships. I quoted from Rebecca Traister's new book, "All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation,"...
In the mid 1970s, psychologist Merrill Elias began tracking the cognitive abilities of more than a thousand people in the state of New York. The goal was fairly specific: to observe the relationship between people's blood pressure and brain performance. And for decades he did just that, eventually...
What's a "Downton Abbey" fan to do now that the series is over? Consider a trip to soothe your sorrows. There are castles and dozens of film locations in Britain, and Gilded Age mansions here. There are maps and apps, and even a costume exhibit at Chicago's Driehaus Museum. Here are some details....
Tens of thousands of people in Flint, Mich., may have guzzled down coffee, orange juice and pots of spaghetti laced with lead when the city began drawing inadequately treated water from a nearby river. No one has precise figures; the extent of lead exposure from corroded pipes remains unknown. ...