A Schaumburg man, who struck up a friendship with a Berwyn couple while working as a driver, has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of the couple in their home, according to police and court records.
Various political training forums across the country are reporting a recent spike in women interested in running for office, a largely unexpected result of the 2016 presidential election. "The growth has been explosive," said Erin Loos Cutraro, co-founder of She Should Run.
Susanna Kaleta was pronounced dead at 3:59 p.m. Friday following a head-on crash at Illinois Route 59 and Bartlett Road, authorities said.
Going into Monday's home opener, the team is doing its best to make the most of the lust for all things Cub, with a new store that opens Monday outside Wrigley Field and an assist from a Chicago company that helps sports teams step up their retail game.
Gridlock in Springfield is strangling public college finances statewide. The latest casualty: Northeastern Illinois University announced it will cancel three days of classes to cut costs. "On a scale of 1 to 10, my frustration level is at a 22," says interim President Richard Helldobler. Other...
As President Donald Trump approaches the end of his first 100 days in office, he is reminding me of Joe Btfsplk. Yes, that's how you spell it. In the late Al Capp's "Li'l Abner" comic strip, Joe was the world's worst jinx. He strolled through life with a little storm cloud over his head as he brought...
The video from a chemical attack had horrified viewers worldwide, but the war in Syria has reliably delivered many other atrocities for six years. This reign or even rain of death, though, was enough to provoke a new U.S. president. No drawing red lines, no waiting until they're crossed to painstakingly...
The bridges along the Chicago River will soon swing open as flotillas of pleasure craft make their annual voyage from dry docks to Lake Michigan harbors. The river, that broad ribbon of water framed by skyscrapers, is an iconic Chicago image. It's a perennial favorite of movie and television crews....
Kris Bryant admitted Saturday night he continues to search for his timing at the plate, and he fessed up to committing a baserunning flaw. But Bryant and his teammates forged a 17-hit attack that raised optimism for even better days ahead after an 11-6 victory over the Brewers. "You can always...
Keith Magnuson would have loved this. Here was Denver, Maggie's alma mater, infiltrating his hockey town in a way that would have made the rambunctious redhead smile. Here were the Pioneers, wearing the same colors Magnuson wore in college, beating Minnesota Duluth 3-2 at the United Center for...
The scorebook says Avisail Garcia was caught stealing home. The scoreboard said the run counted. The final score said the White Sox defeated the Twins 6-2 on Saturday afternoon in front of an announced crowd of 23,024 at Guaranteed Rate Field. A strange second inning began with Todd Frazier fouling...
Mark Grace predicted the Cubs' NL record 0-14 start in 1997 never would be matched. "You have to play really bad to do that," he said. They did.
You know a lot about McDonald's, but McDonald's doesn't know much about you.
With the recent decision to shutter its sprawling manufacturing plant near the city of Aurora, Caterpillar is foisting a huge economic development challenge onto a region that has long depended on the factory to provide jobs and vital commerce. By the end of 2018, Cat will shuffle production from...
Millennials are finally starting to show interest in homeownership. Weighed down by massive student debt and job struggles, the generation brutalized by the Great Recession has lacked both the money and the desire to buy homes. They've been a generation of renters. But as millennials have entered...
As headlines scream about the ravages of the nation's growing opioid epidemic, employers are waking up to the notion that substance abuse may be wreaking havoc in a nearby cubicle — and a new tool aims to help them see just how costly that can be.
And there was another one, a makeshift memorial on a South Side sidewalk. It was, one day not so very long ago, a fresh-looking gathering of flowers and cards and a few tiny stuffed teddy bears and many balloons and a personal note that read "I will always miss you," but has been quickly beaten...
Lemmy's gone and Ozzy's put Black Sabbath to rest, but Wino endures. Though not nearly the mainstream icon that Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister and the now Sabbath-less Ozzy Osbourne became, Scott "Wino" Weinrich is a revered warrior within metal's close-knit community. In the Obsessed, Weinrich blended...
In 1986, an energetic playwright, lyricist and director named Howard Ashman and a young composer named Alan Menken had a New York hit with a satirical off-Broadway show called "The Little Shop of Horrors." Around that same time, on America's West Coast, a Disney staffer named Ron Clements had successfully...
Beginning next weekend, a big chunk of rock 'n' roll history will be in residence on Navy Pier. "Exhibitionism," a collection of artifacts and interactive displays spanning the Rolling Stones' more than five-decade career will occupy 18,000 square feet in Festival Hall, toward the pier's east end....
Stressed out on the job? Me too. So, I can't say I was surprised to hear Illinois ranked 11th for work-related stress, according to a new survey of the most and least stressed states by WalletHub, the personal finance website based in Washington, D.C. What did surprise me — and might earn a double...
If we eat with our eyes, then we also buy houses with them. How important is the visual factor for homebuyers? A 2015 National Association of Realtors survey found that 81 percent of agents believe it's easier for buyers to visualize a property as a future home when it's been staged. Fortunately,...
Just because you didn't book airline tickets and hotel rooms for a faraway vacation doesn't mean the family has to be under house arrest during spring break. Plenty of places near Chicago beckon for a daycation or a quick-and-easy getaway within a few hours' drive of the city. Here are some suggestions...
Kate Parker remembers being 7 and wanting her hair cut like her brothers: short, tangle-free and out of her way for soccer. "I realize now what a gift my parents gave me," Parker told me. "They never once said, 'Girls look this way,' or, 'Girls don't do that.'" Instead, her parents took her to...
Comcast on Thursday leapt into the cutthroat market for cellphone service by unveiling Xfinity Mobile, a move that other cable companies are expected to follow as consumers' rising Internet consumption increasingly pits providers of home and mobile broadband against each other. The company will...
Uber Technologies Inc. has an alibi for Alphabet Inc.'s allegations of trade-secrets theft — the ride-hailing company is using off-the-shelf technology in its driverless cars weaving through San Francisco and Pittsburgh. Uber is trying to persuade a judge not to issue an order that might stall...
Uptake Technologies, the Chicago-based provider of predictive analytics for industry led by Groupon co-founder Brad Keywell ⇒, has added another $50 million to its current funding round, a spokeswoman confirmed Friday. That brings the total raised in the round to $90 million, she said. Crain's...
In creating for the future, architecture comes with lasting and costly consequences. So Andre Brumfield, firmwide director of planning and urban design at architectural firm Gensler in Chicago, starts with the individual. Whether he’s working with his core group in Chicago or teams across multiple...
Rather than putting a ton of effort into an outing and then just hitting one spot, why not extend the adventure?
So kick off the Cubs home opener with some food and drink specials that will likely have you sloppily singing “Go Cubs Go” by the third inning.
We picked our favorite good old-fashioned cheap eats in the neighborhoods of five Chicago colleges.
We rounded up the top happy hour deals for every day of the week. Here’s where to drink on a budget this week.
An Airbnb host near Big Bear has been banned after an Asian American guest claimed her reservation was canceled at the last minute because of her race. Airbnb spokesman Nick Papas said in an email that the host's behavior was "abhorrent and unacceptable." In recent years, the company has faced...
Residents of the Syrian town devastated by a chemical weapons attack last week said warplanes had returned to bomb them Saturday, despite a U.S. missile barrage and warnings of possible further response. At least 86 people in the northwestern town of Khan Sheikhoun were killed Tuesday in a chemical...
The Blackhawks have known for a week they would be the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Shortly after their 3-2 overtime loss to the Kings on Saturday, they finally learned their first-round opponent. The Hawks will face the Predators in Game 1 at the United Center, with the date to...
Jimmy Kimmel is probably best known for his dry delivery and Matt Damon insults, but he showed a different side of himself last night when he got extremely emotional during his late-night show's monologue. He turned his opener into a tribute for his friend Don Rickles, the insult comedian who died...
A 17-year-old girl from Chicago was killed in a head-on crash Friday afternoon in Bartlett that also left three other people injured, police said. Susanna Kaleta was pronounced dead at 3:59 p.m. Friday at St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates following the crash at Illinois Route 59 and...
Christopher Garza said he knows he shouldn't have been driving his muscle car at 158 mph early Friday on the Indiana Toll Road near Gary — he just wanted to help his buddy clear his mind by showing him how fast his new ride could go. When the 30-year-old from Chicago passed an Indiana State Trooper...
When the Obama administration launched a sweeping policy to reduce harsh prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders, rave reviews came from across the political spectrum. Civil rights groups and the Koch brothers praised Obama for his efforts, saying he was making the criminal justice system...
A relative of a man who died after being shot along with five others Friday afternoon in the South Austin neighborhood said social media led to his cousin's death. "Facebook killed him, that's what did it," a man who stated he was a cousin of the victim said as he looked over the shooting scene...
Syrian President Bashar Assad was required to declare and dispose of all his chemical weapons under U.N. supervision in 2014, but his forces have been accused of using them since then, most recently this week, when a chemical attack in northern Syria killed nearly 90 people. Syria's disarmament,...
A Schaumburg man befriended and then killed a disabled Berwyn couple after meeting them through his job as a transport driver for a hospital, prosecutors said. Roger Scoby, 40, is charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Ira and Tommie Moore on March 30. On Saturday, Cook County Judge...
Doctors are on the cusp of launching the first new male contraceptive in more than a century. But rather than a Big Pharma lab, the breakthrough is emerging from a university startup in the heart of rural India. Years of human trials on the injectable, sperm-zapping product are coming to an end,...
The Tribune's Brad Biggs answers your questions weekly. If the Bears take an impact safety with No. 3, do you think they take Sidney Jones in the second round? He may be hurt but they could get two first-rounders. — @Cubs_Bearsfan1 I don’t think the Bears are in position to take a “redshirt” player...
The Pentagon says a Navy carrier strike group is moving toward the western Pacific Ocean to provide a physical presence near the Korean Peninsula. North Korea's recent ballistic missile tests and continued pursuit of a nuclear program have raised tensions in the region, where U.S. Navy ships are...
Kris Bryant admitted Saturday night he continues to search for his timing at the plate, and he fessed up to committing a baserunning flaw. But Bryant and his teammates forged a 17-hit attack that raised optimism for even better days ahead after an 11-6 victory over the Brewers. "You can always...
Fourteen seconds after tipoff in his first game since fracturing and spraining his right elbow March 15, Dwyane Wade committed a foul. By halftime, Wade had as many turnovers, four, as points. So, yes, there was some rust. And ultimately, despite a better second half from Wade, there was reversion...
Police in the Norwegian capital of Oslo said they neutralized an explosive device found in a busy area of downtown Oslo late Saturday night and said they had arrested a suspect. Police Chief Vidar Pedersen confirmed that the device, initially described as "bomb-like," was an explosive. The police...
Tysen Benz was at home when he saw social media posts indicating that his 13-year-old girlfriend had committed suicide. The posts were a prank, but the 11-year-old boy apparently believed them. Moments later, his mother found him hanging by the neck in his room in Marquette, Mich.. Now a prosecutor...
In July 2011, a jury in Florida acquitted 25-year-old Casey Anthony of murder, aggravated child abuse and aggravated manslaughter after the death of her toddler daughter, Caylee. The verdict, which garnered worldwide media attention, stunned the majority of observers who believed Anthony was guilty....
Amazon wants to add 30,000 part-time fulfillment center and customer service jobs in the next year, a hiring binge that would boost the company's part-time ranks by roughly 75 percent. Most of those jobs will be in Amazon's warehouses and distribution centers, filling customers' online orders,...
Amid a troop of monkeys in the Katraniaghat forest range in northern India roamed a naked human girl, playing with the primates as if she were one of them. She looked emaciated, her hair disheveled. But she appeared to be in a comfortable state, until the police arrived. A group of woodcutters...
Thanks to the president of the United States, we have now seen the structural support system that allows workplace sexual harassment to persist, writ large. And it is sickening. Responding this week to a New York Times report that Fox News and host Bill O'Reilly have settled five cases with women...
Many teens spend their summers lifeguarding or ice-cream scooping. Not Evon Lopez. Lopez, at 16, spent the summer between her sophomore and junior years of high school interning at Abbott Laboratories. At graduation from the eight-week program last August, she delivered a PowerPoint presentation...
Keith Magnuson would have loved this. Here was Denver, Maggie's alma mater, infiltrating his hockey town in a way that would have made the rambunctious redhead smile. Here were the Pioneers, wearing the same colors Magnuson wore in college, beating Minnesota Duluth 3-2 at the United Center for...
Consumer electronics chain hhgregg Inc. is going out of business and shutting down all its stores. The Indianapolis company said Friday that it will liquidate its assets after failing to find a buyer for the business. It filed for bankruptcy protection in March. Founded in 1955, the retailer had...
The images coming out of Syria were hard to watch. Children with reddened cheeks, foam seeping from their mouths as they struggled to breathe. Human beings sprawled motionless on the ground, as rescue workers rinsed them off with water hoses. A father holding the stiffened bodies of his 9-month-old...