The secret, dirty cost of Obama’s green power push
By DINA CAPPIELLO and MATT APUZZO In this July 20, 2013, photo, a plant that produces ethanol is next to a cornfield near Coon Rapids, Iowa. Government mandates to increase…
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Wife: Trotter was treated for aneurysm, seizures
By DON BABWIN In this Dec. 30, 2011 photo, renowned chef Charlie Trotter poses for a photo in the dining room of his restaurant in Chicago. Trotter died Tuesday, Nov.…
Height of 1 World Trade Center debated in Chicago
By JASON KEYSER FILE – This Nov. 7, 2013, photo shows a partial view of Chicago’s 110 story, 1,450 foot Willis Tower. The Tower is in contention with the 104-story,…
Lowe, father of IBM personal computer, dies at 72
By TAMMY WEBBER FILE – In this Aug. 4, 1987 file photo, William C. Lowe, a vice president at IBM, poses with two of the company’s newest Personal System/2 computers,…
School to unveil writer’s ‘Death Collection’
By DON BABWIN This Oct. 29, 2013, photo taken in Evanston, Ill., shows an actual child’s coffin filled with candy at the McCormick Library of Special Collections. The coffin is…
AFTER ‘SNAFU,’ JACKSON REPORTS TO FEDERAL PRISON
By MICHAEL TARM FILE – In this Aug. 14, 2913 file photo, former Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., leaves federal court in Washington after being sentenced to 2 1/2 years…
DURBIN REMOVES POST AFTER WHITE HO– USE MISCUE
By DON BABWIN FILE – This Sept. 4, 2013 file photo shows Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the Senate assistant majority leader, arriving for a top-secret briefing for senators with Secretary…
HEALTH CARE LAW TURNS TO SOCIAL MEDIA IN ILLINOIS
By CARLA K. JOHNSON In this Oct. 15, 2013 photo, social media experts at the marketing agency FleishmanHillard work in a Chicago command center on the Get Covered Illinois marketing…