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Blackhawks in the red

Admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Season ticket prices to jump an average of 20 percent for coming season

The Blackhawks ended their season with capacity attendance and record merchandise sales, television ratings and sponsorship revenues, and the Stanley Cup.

Yates: Landlord trashes city over garbage

Admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Put Illinois to Work paychecks coming, governor says

Ivan Arcos first requested garbage bins for his two-flat in South Austin on Jan. 21.

Kurtis, Jacobson together again

Admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Channel 2 news bringing back legendary newscasters Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson for 6 p.m. broadcast

The newest thing in Chicago TV news is also the oldest.

Accessory to a massacre?

Admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

No one is sure if Aurora man’s 1927 Cadillac really was used by Capone’s men on Valentine’s Day 1929. The car certainly ain’t talking.

Greg Zanis, of Aurora, owns a 1927 Cadillac that, the story goes, once cruised Chicago carrying its most notorious crime boss, a man who ordered the luxury car’s involvement in the city’s most infamous, unsolved crime at the very height of the Prohibition era.

Gold Star Families embrace relatives of slain officers

Admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Survivors band together to share their grief

Richelle Solorio grieved when she heard last week that another Chicago police officer had been killed this year. But for the first time since she lost her brother, Officer Eric Solorio, in 2006 she didn’t just retreat inward with her painful memories. She’s ready to give back.

Metra backs away from moving Ravenswood station

Admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Neighborhood group opposed shift closer to homes

Residents on Ravenswood Avenue were so upset by the idea of a Metra station closer to their homes that they complained to officials, circulated a petition, formed an association and hired an attorney. Their efforts seem to have worked.

Hotels hurting — if they even get built

Admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Inhospitable economy stalls new projects, closes others

Not even Des Plaines, the future home of the state’s 10 t h and final casino, has been spared from the slump devastating the hotel industry.

House charges Rep. Charles Rangel with ethics violations

Admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 +0000

A House panel outlines 13 counts against the New York Democratic lawmaker, whose political career spans 40 years.

Rep. Charles Rangel of New York was charged Thursday with 13 counts of violating House ethics rules, placing the Democrat’s storied, 40-year political career in jeopardy.

Military officials say air show will go on despite deadly military plane crash

Admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:42:00 +0000

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A popular air show will be held this weekend, days after four people were killed when a military cargo plane crashed at an Anchorage base during a training demonstration for the event, military officials said Thursday.

Company at center of huge oil leak into Mich. river has history of pipeline problems

Admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:41:00 +0000

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Michigan river has experienced leaks, an explosion and dozens of regulatory violations in the past decade throughout the Great Lakes region and elsewhere in the U.S.