CHICAGO (AP) - Rock-and-roll legend Chuck Berry felt ill and was checked out by ambulance medics before a show Saturday night, a Chicago fire official said. An audience member at the show, however, said Berry slumped over during the show and was offstage for at least 20 minutes. (more…)
CHICAGO (AP) - An 18-year-old charged in the death of an off-duty Chicago police officer was a gang member who knew the officer and wanted to steal a gun collection stored at his home and sell them, prosecutors alleged Thursday. (more…)
TINLEY PARK, Ill. (AP) - The body of a suburban Chicago man who served in Kosovo and Iraq as a Marine was found in the driveway of his Tinley Park home, and an autopsy showed he died of hypothermia. (more…)
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - A suburban Chicago homeowner convicted in a fatal dispute that began when another man’s dog urinated on his lawn will serve four years of probation instead of going to prison. (more…)
BETHALTO, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois Marine has died from wounds he received while fighting in Afghanistan. (more…)
CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who has largely avoided the public eye of late, said in a rare interview Saturday that he is a public servant, not a perfect one, and didn’t rule out a future run at higher office. (more…)
CHICAGO (AP) - No bidders stepped up to buy a western Illinois prison, but federal officials say they’re still interested in the Thomson Correctional Center.
Federal officials didn’t participate in Tuesday’s auction of the prison. But they sent a letter explaining that they still one day want to buy Thomson and turn it into a federal prison.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons’ letter to Gov. Pat Quinn says the government still needs to get the money to buy the prison. It was up for bid at just less than $220 million.
Quinn’s office says they are committed to working with the federal government to complete a sale of the prison. The prison had never been fully opened and has been cleared out and declared surplus state property so it could be sold.
CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn is going to Germany to visit U.S. troops before the holidays. And a spokeswoman says he is paying for the trip himself. (more…)
CHICAGO (AP) - Some municipal officials in Illinois are rethinking the use of red-light cameras as the number of tickets drops and groups question whether the cameras are effective in reducing crashes. (more…)
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago firefighters have rescued a coyote that had become trapped on a slab of ice floating in Lake Michigan. (more…)
