So are you starting to grow immune to the violence? It's hard not to become more desensitized when these mass murders are coming at us in increasing frequency, which each horrific headline offering yet another narrative of incomprehensible evil. In the last five weeks alone, almost 100 innocent...
A Libertyville police officer was chasing a shoplifter Thursday morning when he was hit by a car door and dragged a short distance, police said Friday. The incident occurred at about 11:45 a.m. Thursday at a store near Peterson Road and Milwaukee Avenue, according to a Libertyville Police Department...
The sun poked through the clouds just as the countdown began on the 30-yard line at the Hobart football stadium. Hobart High engineering students checked and made last minute adjustments on their weather balloons, nicknamed Genesis and Exodus, as the helium-filled orbs bobbed in the gusty air. ...
The Evanston City Council is scheduled to consider a resolution Monday that calls for paying a former city worker $500,000 to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit. Suzette Robinson, a former Public Works Agency director, filed the lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern...
For about a year, Berwyn Deputy Police Chief Joseph Drury repeatedly made sexually harassing comments to a female detective and once threatened to rape her, according to a lawsuit the detective filed this week in Cook County Circuit Court. Detective Carmelita Terry, a 27-year veteran of the department...
A 64-year-old northwest suburban man is being held without bail after he was charged Thursday with stalking and threatening violence against an Arlington Heights woman with whom he had a prior dating relationship, authorities said. William Brice also was charged in Cook County Circuit Court with...
Mundelein is asking the Urban Land Institute for insight into how the areas around Townline Road can be redeveloped, especially the largely vacant Oak Creek Plaza where Menards once operated. A decision on Mundelein’s application is expected by the end of the year, according to Amanda Orenchuk,...
John Mesman said he's been farming and canning the fruits of his labor his whole life. These days, the Highland native and Army veteran tends to the raised garden that snakes around the rooftop of his current home, Northwest Indiana Veterans Village in Gary. He's been weeding, watering and most...
As the director of Stevenson High School's upcoming production of "Fiddler on the Roof," Lauren Rawitz said the fall musical's depiction of bigotry and religious persecution prompted some soul-searching among her 56 cast members. "Unfortunately, the relevancy of this story from 1905 could be seen...
Linda Dodge was driving down Prairie Avenue in Mundelein Thursday morning when she pulled up next to a group of people standing in the road and jokingly said, “Nice house, can you move it somewhere else?” The scene Dodge encountered was the result of the Affordable Housing Corporation of Lake County’s...
Firefighters put down a fire in a smoke-filled house in Norridge on Nov. 3, an effort that included the rescue of a family dog. The dog, Rex, a Chihuahua, was later reunited with family members, said Dave Blondell, deputy chief with the Norwood Park Fire Department. Fire officials said the fire...
A proposal to build eight townhouses and two single family houses on Elm Street south of Osterman Avenue received a major setback when the Deerfield Plan Commission gave it a negative recommendation Thursday at a nearly four-hour hearing. The commission voted 5-0, with one abstention, to recommend...
A 73-year-old man has been charged with sexually assaulting three young boys at his home near Matteson, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's office said Thursday. Joseph Minarik, of the 600 block of Tanglewood Road, was ordered held without bond during a court hearing Wednesday, the sheriff said in a...
Joe Otis used to have a worn copy of a photo from the Denver Post. It was his of father, Rollie Joe Otis, with his M-16 pointed upward, two grenades hanging over each shoulder, emerging from a field shrouded by a thicket of weeds off Highway One in Vietnam. The picture was taken Dec. 2, 1966, about...
Alton Brooks had just finished football practice. He had his hood pulled up over his head as he departed Marist's campus. It was unseasonably cold and dark outside on this fall evening. Brooks, a senior, was preparing for a journey home to Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood that requires rides...
NORMAL — Height isn't everything in girls volleyball, but it sure can help. Harvest Christian senior Amanda Cassidy knows this to be true, despite the fact the 5-foot-7 outside hitter came into Friday's Class 2A state semifinal match against St. Thomas More leading her team with 283 kills. Cassidy...
Scores and highlights may be emailed to newssunports@gmail.com Note: Schedules are subject to change because of weather and other factors. FOOTBALL SATURDAY'S GAMES HIGH SCHOOLS CLASS 7A STATE QUARTERFINALS #3 Lake Zurich (11-0) at #11 St. Rita (9-2), 5 p.m. LOCAL COLLEGES MIDWEST CONFERENCE Chicago at...
A man named Steve emails me every now and then to take issue with something I’ve written. He checked in a few weeks ago after I wrote about the #MeToo movement, which was inspired by sexual harassment and assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein. “The core question you should be asking, Heidi,”...
Living in his father's home, raising his father's children, Stephen Peterson, the son of convicted murderer Drew Peterson, said he's spent the better part of a decade cleaning up his dad's "mess." In 2012, Drew Peterson was sentenced to 38 years in prison for the 2004 slaying of his third wife,...
An appeals court ruled a Kane County sergeant improperly prolonged a traffic stop from which authorities seized a car and more than $8,000 cash, and now the driver and passengers are suing the county and officers involved in federal court. The officer who initiated the stop once described asset...
Donald Trump has many serious flaws, including incorrigible dishonesty, rampant narcissism, contempt for women and a fashion sense that makes him think that hairstyle of his is flattering. But nothing compares to his most prominent, crippling and incurable defect: He’s dimmer than a 5-watt bulb....
The silent alarm on the Safe Haven Baby Box at the Coolspring Township Volunteer Fire Department in Michigan City has been tripped before, fire officials there said, mostly by people curious about the box on the east side of the building. So when Chief Mick Pawlik's pager went off Tuesday night,...
On the income distribution charts at the center of tax overhaul plans, Courtney Mishoe knows she's doing well. She works as a tax manager at a firm in the Atlanta suburbs. Her husband is a police officer. Together they make more than $180,000 a year. They are solidly in the upper middle class....
From early on in his wife Stacy’s disappearance, Drew Peterson passed himself off as a devil-may-care serial marriage victim, unfairly suspected in the death of one wife and the disappearance of another. Stacy Peterson has now been gone for 10 years — she was last seen on Oct. 28, 2007, and reported...
If you had asked me Sunday who my favorite actor was, I would have told you it was Jeffrey Tambor. Ask me today, and it’s a totally different story. I loved the “Transparent" star because he built his career on roles that aimed at gender stereotypes in profound — and often very, very funny — ways....
Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore declined Friday to rule out that he may have dated girls in their late teens when he was in his 30s, though he said he did not remember any such encounters and described such behavior as inappropriate. "If I did, I'm not going to dispute these things, but I don't...
North Shore School District 112 will never succeed in resolving its longstanding school reorganization dilemma until the community confronts the deep-seated divisions that exist between north and south Highland Park, Interim Superintendent Edward Rafferty said this week. Rafferty broke into a school...
Sue Hanson was still in bed when she heard the familiar sound of the John Deeres maneuvering onto the Hemp family farm in Ashkum, a small community about 80 miles southwest of Chicago. Bright headlights guided each of the tractors and combines into 8-foot-high stalks of corn ready for harvest. ...
Metra riders will see fare hikes and service cuts next year, part of the transit agency’s 2018 budget that was approved Friday. Officials also warned that more service cuts and fare hikes could be coming next year, unless state funding improves. Adult and reduced-fare one-way tickets will rise...
Standing in a stately Mayo Clinic library, Lilly Ross reached out and touched the face of a stranger, prodding the rosy cheeks and eyeing the hairless gap in a chin she once had known so well. "That's why he always grew it so long, so he could try to mesh it together on the chin," she told Andy...
Uber lost the latest round in the battle over its operating model Friday, when a British panel ruled that the company's drivers are workers, not independent contractors, in a decision with broad implications for the so-called gig economy. The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld a lower panel's decision,...
An activist who walked along the lakefront with her breasts exposed to protest Chicago’s public indecency ordinance could very well have made her point with her clothes on, a prim and proper federal appeals court has ruled. But the decision to uphold a law that discriminates between male and female...
Take a short drive from Chicago and you’ve reached the land of job opportunity. Too bad it means crossing the state line into Wisconsin or Indiana to find low unemployment and a fertile environment for business investment. Do Illinois’ elected officials notice how poorly this state compares to...
With his career imploding over allegations of sexual misconduct, comedian Louis C.K. confessed Friday to masturbating in front of women and expressed remorse for wielding his influence "irresponsibly." The comedian said in a statement that the harassment claims by five women detailed in a New York...
A man wanted in connection with the murder of a Northbrook lawyer was arrested at the Canadian border two days after the killing as he tried to enter the country with a gun, authorities said. John Panaligan, 51, of Aurora, was detained after authorities found an undeclared .40-caliber handgun in...
If, as reportedly is its intent, Netflix finds a way to expunge Kevin Spacey and his character of Frank Underwood from the final season of "House of Cards," how will that make America feel? That's a question worth unpacking. New allegations continue to be made against Spacey. On Wednesday, The ...
Cancer, as everyone knows, is a beast. And Melissa Anne Dabas battled that monster — triple negative breast cancer, an onerous form of the disease. She had a double mastectomy, and punishing rounds of chemo that smacked her with every side effect. In February, the 42-year-old Virginia mother of...
The Bears had one practice left, one Wednesday morning tuneup to finish before splitting for their weekend off. Inevitably, that left many players with one eye toward the airport, longing for warmer climes and a break from the season’s grind. But before rookie Mitch Trubisky headed out to the Halas...
Less than a week before the Texas church massacre, the gunman who slaughtered more than two dozen people showed up at a festival dressed in black and acted so strangely that people kept a close eye on him, two longtime parishioners said Friday. Devin Patrick Kelley "was completely distant and way...
The body of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of four U.S. soldiers killed in an ambush by Islamist militants in Niger last month, was found with his arms tied and a gaping wound at the back of his head, according to two villagers, suggesting that he may have been captured and then executed. Adamou Boubacar,...
Female Cook County correctional officers have filed a federal lawsuit that alleges the sheriff has tolerated aggressive sexual harassment from male detainees at the county jail. The litigation comes just days after a lawsuit from female Cook County assistant public defenders alleged similar misconduct...
In a major breakthrough, trade ministers from 11 Pacific Rim countries said they reached a deal Saturday to proceed with the free-trade Trans-Pacific Partnership deal that was in doubt after President Donald Trump abandoned it. A statement issued in the early hours Saturday said an accord was reached...