VOTERS TO CHOOSE JACKSON JR.’S HO– USE SUCCESSOR
By SOPHIA TAREEN FILE – In this Feb. 26, 2013 file photo, Robin Kelly celebrates her special primary election win in Matteson, Ill., for Illinois’ 2nd Congressional District seat, once…
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PRINCIPAL: KIDS ‘OK’ AFTER SCHOOL BUS OVERTURNS
Emergency personnel respond at the scene where a school bus overturned that was carrying about two dozen elementary school children, Friday, April 5, 2013, in Wadsworh, Ill. Lake County Sheriff’s…
DEATH OF FILM CRITIC EBERT ELICITS WIDE REACTION
By The Associated Press FILE – This May 17, 2004 file photo shows Pulitzer Prize winning film critc Roger Ebert at the 57th International Film Festival in Cannes, southern France.…
IN A CHICAGO SUBURB, AN INDOOR FARM GOES ‘MEGA’
By MARTHA IRVINE Jolanta Hardej, CEO of FarmedHere LLC, examines a young basil crop at the indoor vertical farm in Bedford Park, Ill., on Wednesday, March 13, 2013. The farm,…
PANERA TRYING NEW PAY-WHAT-YOU-WANT EXPERIMENT
FILE – In this May, 2002 file photo Panera Bread Co. CEO Ron Shaich stands behind a counter in a St. Louis cafe. Three years after launching its pioneering pay…
SNOWSTORM TAKES AIM AT PLAINS, MIDWEST
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH JC Hobbs directs his wife Sarah as they help to pull a van and U-Haul up a hill outside Calhan, Colo. as a storm continued to bring…
CHICAGO DEMOCRAT CONVICTED OF TAX CHARGES
By MICHAEL TARM FILE – In this March 2, 2012 file photo, Cook County Commissioner William Beavers, left, speaks to reporters, as his attorney Sam Adam Jr. listens, after Beavers’…
CHICAGO TEACHERS GET NOTICE OF SCHOOL CLOSINGS
By SARA BURNETT and JASON KEYSER William Penn Elementary School Council Representative Rev. Dr. Brian Henderson speaks at a news conference held by the Committee to Save North Lawndale Schools,…