The Illinois Department of Human Services has revoked the license of a group home provider that was spotlighted in a Chicago Tribune investigation this month, citing the state-funded business for safety problems and "willfully violating the rights of individuals" with developmental disabilities.
A series of events Tuesday at the Capitol illustrated that Democrats and Republicans are digging in deeper amid the state's historic budget impasse, with the focus quickly turning to the 2018 election even as a temporary spending plan is set to expire at year's end.
Mundelein's Village Board voted Monday to require pet shops to disclose the origin of their animals, a step back from a plan discussed last month that would have banned so-called puppy mill sales.
Christmas finery made its seasonal debut Tuesday at the White House with a blend of old traditions and new twists designed to captivate the thousands of visitors who will tour the mansion's ornate rooms during the holidays.
With Rep. Tom Price as Health and Human Services secretary, there's a good chance Obamacare will be history. That will hurt many of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters.
Should political candidates appeal to particular racial, ethnic or gender groups? Or should they broaden their message to appeal to all groups? Such are the questions that presidential campaigns ask themselves in the circular firing squad of blame that follows a big loss. Four years ago, the big...
Hot on the heels of Donald Trump's latest outrageously outrageous tweet — in which he suggested that we either imprison people who burn the flag or strip them of their citizenship — it's time for Twitter to take action and ban Donald Trump from the service.
Is the "alt-right" basically just another name for neo-Nazis? A look at the group that gained power with Trump's victory.
Say this for Matt Barkley's first NFL start: it was certainly eventful. So just how should Barkley's overall performance be contextualized? And just how much can the Bears gain by taking an extended look at the 26-year-old quarterback in the coming weeks?
Young players like Doug McDermott and Bobby Portis look up to Jimmy Butler the way Butler once did to former Bulls teammate Luol Deng.
Last week's ranking in parentheses. 1. Cowboys 10-1 (1). Jerry Jones says team won't lessen Ezekiel Elliott's workload down the stretch. 2. Patriots 9-2 (3). Suddenly looking a little vulnerable after narrow victory against Jets. 3. Raiders 9-2 (4). Derek Carr looks like a legitimate MVP candidate....
In a country of soccer heroes, Chapecoense was a team of unlikely upstarts. The club, from the tiny city of Chapeco in the southern state of Santa Catarina, was playing in the Brazilian fourth division — the equivalent of baseball’s low minor leagues — less than a decade ago. But this year it had...
Chicago's Large Lots Program, which sells vacant city-owned parcels to nearby homeowners for $1 each, is getting a lot larger.
Travelers through O'Hare International Airport can expect a scene Tuesday as airport workers walk off the job and rally for a $15 minimum wage alongside fast-food workers, graduate assistants, child and health care workers and Uber drivers.
President-elect Donald Trump's pledge to rebuild the country's multitude of highways, roads, bridges and dams is resonating with major Illinois business interests, which are mapping out their own infrastructure dreams. Trump's vow to invest $1 trillion over 10 years is placing infrastructure improvements...
A new service is giving shoppers a reason to go back to the mall: a one-stop shop to return unwanted online purchases. Happy Returns, a California-based startup, has opened return stations at two Chicago-area malls — The Shops at North Bridge on Michigan Avenue and Fashion Outlets in Rosemont —...
The Eagles are finished. Don Henley is direct. The way he describes it, the group he helped lead since 1971 died with his longtime musical partner Glenn Frey. "I don't see how we could go out and play without the guy who started the band," says Henley. He sits inside the Tudor mansion in Lincoln,...
At 65, Mark Kelly — Chicago's new cultural commissioner — wasn't looking for a job. "I didn't even have a resume — I wasn't in the market," says Kelly, speaking in his art-bedecked office at the Chicago Cultural Center, near the Columbia College Chicago campus where he worked as an administrator...
When Kathleen Kennedy took over the "Star Wars" franchise last year, she became an important test case in an industry with few female executives. A major assumption undergirding conversations about diversity and inclusion not just in Hollywood, but in business more broadly, is that putting women...
Tune in Tuesday to see Lin-Manuel Miranda like you've never seen him before: incredibly drunk. Miranda may have a Pulitzer and a few Tonys, but now he has his very own giggled-through, slurred-along "Drunk History" opus. The creator of the hip-hop-fueled musical that made our country's history...
It's not just your imagination: 2016 really is the year of xenophobia. Dictionary.com declared "xenophobia" its word of the year, based on search data and in-house discussions among editors and lexicographers. "Xenophobia and other words tied to global news and political rhetoric reflected the...
It starts out with a simple sneeze and a pounding headache while you're waiting in the glacial cold at the bus or train stop. You think it passes, but a couple of days later it still lingers, and you now feel a tickle at the back of your throat. You take out your phone, tap the camera app and open...
For a lot of us, heading to holiday light displays has become as big a tradition as Christmas trees and cookies. "It gets me ready for the holidays," said one woman I met at Disneyland one Thanksgiving weekend, where many families come every year to ride holiday-themed attractions and marvel at...
Women who think they're too old to worry about mammograms may want to reconsider the age at which their breast cancer screening years are behind them, a new study suggests. Based on an analysis of nearly 7 million mammograms over a seven-year period, "the benefit continues with increasing age up...
A new app out this week from food waste-fighting startup Zero Percent could let users indulge their snack cravings while helping feed the needy. SnackPass, which launched publicly on Monday as a free iOS and Android app, lets customers grab five snacks from area restaurants per month for a $10...
A Chicago charity brought tech community members to the table to give back earlier this month. The pingpong table, that is. More than 250 people from the Chicago tech community partook in the third annual T4Youth pingpong tournament, held at AceBounce in the Loop. All of the proceeds from the competition...
It sounds like a great idea: Forget passwords, and instead lock your phone or computer with your fingerprint. It's a convenient form of security — though it's also perhaps not as safe as you'd think. In their rush to do away with problematic passwords, Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies...
Game developer Glu Mobile Inc. is working to let users play a future release by streaming it on their devices. No sifting through an app store to find it and no download required. Applications are streamed by clicking a link on a mobile website, in a text or e-mail message or through social media....
Jessie Grady walked into a Michaels store last week in Chicago to buy a Santa hat for her young daughter. She ended up witnessing -- and filming --- another customer's "unprovoked attack" in which the woman unloaded on black Michaels employees, claiming she was being discriminated against and declaring...
While we're still analyzing the election results and debating the importance of different factors to the final outcome, everyone agrees that white working-class voters played a key part in Donald Trump's victory, in some cases by switching their votes and in some cases by turning out when they...
Chicago saw one its most violent Thanksgiving holidays in years, with eight people killed and 62 others wounded between late Wednesday afternoon and early Monday.The toll towers over the number of shootings in the previous two Thanksgiving holiday weekends, according to data kept by the Tribune.In...
Hundreds of workers at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport spent Tuesday on strike to protest low wages, but officials said it had little impact on flight operations. The strike, organized by the Service Employees International Union Local 1, involved baggage handlers, janitors, airplane cabin...
Chicago's Large Lots Program, which sells vacant city-owned parcels to nearby homeowners for $1 each, is getting a lot larger. More than 4,000 vacant lots will be put up for sale in 33 communities on the South and West sides, beginning Tuesday. Eligible buyers must own property on the same block...
With the looming likelihood free agent Dexter Fowler will land a lucrative contract elsewhere, the Cubs bought some protection for potential successor Albert Almora Jr. Tuesday night when they signed free-agent outfielder Jon Jay to a one-year contract. Jay, 31, is a lifetime .287 hitter in seven...
A series of events Tuesday at the Capitol illustrated that Democrats and Republicans are digging in deeper amid the state's historic budget impasse, with the focus quickly turning to the 2018 election even as a temporary spending plan is set to expire at year's end. First, Democratic House Speaker...
An Indiana-based manufacturer of air conditioners said Tuesday evening that it has reached an agreement with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana, to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in the state that had been slated to move to Mexico. A Trump transition...
Democrats have found no shortage of scapegoats for Hillary Clinton's loss in the presidential election. But Clinton's top pollster is sticking with a simpler explanation: blame FBI Director James Comey. "We were winning this campaign," pollster Joel Benenson told former senior White House adviser...
A former auto body shop employee was found in criminal contempt of court and sentenced to 60 days in custody Tuesday by a federal judge for refusing to testify at the trial of six reputed leaders of the violent Hobos street gang. Mack Mason was subpoenaed to testify Monday but refused to take the...
The Eagles are finished. Don Henley is direct. The way he describes it, the group he helped lead since 1971 died with his longtime musical partner Glenn Frey. "I don't see how we could go out and play without the guy who started the band," says Henley. He sits inside the Tudor mansion in Lincoln,...
At least the death of the monstrous Cuban dictator Fidel Castro — who murdered his own people and turned his nation into an island prison — accomplished something. It triggered the useful idiots of the political left who praised their late hero. And it caused me to remember someone I'd forgotten,...
Two Evanston police officers are on leave and the department has launched an internal investigation after a 24-year-old African-American man was arrested Sunday while collecting signatures to run for local public office, according to Evanston Police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. Devon Reid, 24, was in the...
It's unfortunate the NBA schedule makers placed the Lakers in New Orleans on Tuesday night or else Luol Deng and Jimmy Butler might have grabbed a late-night workout together for old time's sake. As Deng and the Lakers faced the Pelicans, Butler planned to return to the Advocate Center, like he...
What good are gun-free signs on doors to a giant mall if people carrying guns can enter through anchor stores where there are no signs? That's the question posed Monday by Northbrook gun control advocate Lee Goodman, who said that patrons can "sneak guns into Northbrook Court" through anchors Neiman...
By Election Day 2016, ambitious Democrats had already resigned themselves to an eight-year wait for their chance in the national spotlight. Hillary Clinton was an overwhelming favorite against Donald Trump and, assuming she won, running a primary challenge against her in four years would be a fool's...
"Choose kindness." With her children by her side, Abigayle Shay penciled the simple message onto a poster board the morning after Donald Trump was elected president and hung it on the front door of her Evanston home. A few days later, a friend told her about a group of women organizing a march...
A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday allowed Hillary Clinton to join Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's lawsuit Tuesday demanding a hand recount of the state's election, a process that may cost Stein about $400,000 more than she anticipated. Clinton's attorneys filed briefs in Dane County...
WSCR-AM 670 personality Terry Boers announced his retirement Tuesday. In a post on the WSCR website today, Boers wrote, "I’m 66 years old and I’m going to retire, leaving behind one of the greatest jobs you can have, talking sports or movies or TV or life for five hours a day on a station I couldn’t...
A Chicago police sergeant who fatally shot a teen last week killed another man while off-duty three years ago in a shooting that bore striking similarities. In both incidents, the white officer fatally shot African-Americans who he thought were armed, but no weapon was found. Both shootings took...
Mitt Romney praised President-elect Donald Trump after they met for a second time on Tuesday night, saying he has "increasing hope" that the president-elect can lead the country to a "better future."The 2012 Republican presidential nominee dined with Trump in Manhattan Tuesday night as Trump weighs...
During one of several embarrassments in a 4-8 season full of them, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly defended his style by referring to himself in the third person. "I'm being Brian Kelly, so if people have a problem with that, then they're not going to be friends or fans of Notre Dame football," Kelly...
Donald Trump has chosen Republican Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, a longtime critic of the Affordable Care Act, as his secretary for Health and Human Services. This likely means that, at best, the health law will be repealed and replaced by something that covers far fewer people, or that, at worst,...
Say this for Matt Barkley's first NFL start: it was certainly eventful. The Bears quarterback threw two costly interceptions inside the red zone and watched as his team fell behind the Titans by 20 points after three quarters on Sunday. Then, with a productive fourth quarter, Barkley led the Bears...
A Highland Park mother has filed suit to stop North Shore School District 112 from closing schools, reassigning students and laying off teachers at least until after the April 4 school board election. Sarah Ludington, the parent of a special education student at Elm Place Middle School, is seeking...