Normal, Illinois was hit hard when an auto plant closed a few years ago. Now it's back in action — but will people buy electric pickups?
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An exhibition at Elmhurst Art Museums lets you imagine life in a 1950s Mies van der Rohe-designed house.
After lingering for more than two years, Illinois Gov.-elect JB Pritzker said Friday he intends to settle 12 negligence lawsuits brought by the families of those who died of Legionnaires’ disease at the state-run Quincy veterans’ home.
The Christmas Ship arrived at Navy Pier bearing more than one thousand trees for Chicago area families.
The Uptown Theatre on Chicago’s North Side is nearing the century mark. But for the last nearly 40 years that existence has been lonely. The former movie house and concert venue closed in 1981 and has received only essential structural repairs during t...
If you use NMap then you are aware of the task to read through and present the results from a full scan. This week's Tools, Tips and Tricks episode talks about WebMap and how that can make your life much simpler.
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In trial of 3 Chicago cops charged with conspiracy to protect Jason Van Dyke, prosecutors point to emails of “unindicted co-conspirators.”
In his first press conference since losing re-election to JB Pritzker, Rauner said he’s scared of the direction Democrats will take Illinois with no strong voice of opposition.
The city of Chicago said Thursday it has dismissed some 23,000 outstanding duplicate vehicle sticker tickets and will refund motorists who have already paid for an additional 12,000 duplicates dating to the early 1990s.
Federal agents showed up at the office of Chicago Ald. Ed Burke on Thursday morning to execute a search warrant, a source tells WBEZ.
The FCC announced they will discuss cracking down on those annoying and in some cases illegal robocalls. This episode talks about their focus and why you should still be wary of any phone calls you get regardless of what the Caller-ID says.
Link to my recordings of scammers, additional recordings in the links at the end of the post.
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An era will pass on December 31st with the retirement of executive editor Doug Mitchell after forty-one years at the University of Chicago Press. During his tenure at Chicago, Doug has made an incalculable impact on several scholarly fields, including sexuality studies, sociology, history, and rhetoric. Doug began his publishing career in the college division of Scott, Foresman, then came to the Press in 1977. Some of Doug’s distinctive early acquisitions were books by the Annales historians, works in social and cultural theory, studies in the production of knowledge, and, most famously, the National Book Award–winning Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, by John Boswell. Boswell’s book became the spearhead for Doug’s field-defining list in sexuality studies. For his role in shaping and amplifying that field, Doug was honored in 1998 with a Lambda Literary Award. Doug also published important books in rhetoric and communication and drew on his musical gifts to bring Chicago a line of important books in jazz studies. Perhaps the greatest of Doug’s achievements was to build a community of sociologists linked by a love of culture, narrative, and first principles, for which the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction awarded him its coveted George […]
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A Chicago Public Schools agency has received almost 500 allegations of student-on-student sexual violence since early September.
A Chicago police officer testified Wednesday that the detective in charge of investigating the police killing of Laquan McDonald altered her version of the incident in official reports to help justify the police shooting.
Officer Dora Fontaine said a r...
A Chicago Public Schools principal is challenging how the school district fires principals as well as accusing it of trying to silence principals in a series of legal steps that could have far-reaching consequences for school leaders.Principal Michael ...
An Illinois state representative apologized Wednesday for saying she’d like a Republican colleague’s family to get sick and die of Legionnaires’ disease. State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit (D-Oswego) said she used a “poor choice of words” during a debate Tue...
A new report says groundwater near power plants across Illinois is being contaminated by a toxic byproduct called coal ash. The ash, which contains a long list of toxic metals, is left behind after the facilities burn coal for fuel. Twenty-two of 24 co...
Chicago Ald. Willie Cochran appeared in federal court Tuesday morning to request a trial date on allegations that he used neighborhood charity funds to gamble and pay his daughter’s college tuition. Cochran was due in court to decide on a plea deal tha...