Ben
At the funeral Saturday for Spc. Christopher Patterson, 20, of North Aurora, who was killed Jan. 6 in Afghanistan, two governors and his father delivered eulogies. “He was about everybody else,” Robert Patterson said through long, anguished...
Television and radio host Tavis Smiley debuted a multimedia presentation at North Central College Thursday. It was the digital expression of his “America I AM: The African American Imprint” traveling exhibit that traces the impact of African...
Community leaders from around the Northwest suburbs gathered in Hoffman Estates Thursday night to hear Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon discuss diversity in Illinois during the 11th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dinner sponsored by the Illinois Commission on...
Elgin business owner Ken Santowski estimates he spends more than $10,000 each year in gas and man hours to haul foam products to a recycling facility in North Aurora — and most of it is not even his. Read more from the original source: Elgin businessman...
A National Guardsman on his way to work as a security guard thwarted a robbery at the North/Clybourn Red Line Station. Three were arrested as a result. [ more › ] See more here: Chicagoist Weekend Blotter: National Guardsman Stops Robbery At Red...
Motorists in Naperville will face a little less scrutiny beginning Tuesday as the city officially pulls the plug on its three red-light cameras. The cameras have been operating for three years at the intersections of Route 59 and North Aurora Road, Route...
PYONGYANG, North Korea — Tens of thousands of North Koreans lined the snowy streets of Pyongyang on Wednesday, wailing and clutching their chests as a black hearse carrying late leader Kim Jong Il’s body wound its way through the capital for...
Someone robbed a Chase bank on the Near North Side. On Christmas Eve. Ballsy. [ more › ] Here is the original: Extra Extra: And A Merry Merry Read More →
Notre Dame researchers want to turn your house into a power plant. Their vision for producing electricity is a bit different than the coal plants already in the City…it involves some very high-tech paint… [ more › ] More here: Can You...
