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They set up a cocaine "command and control" center in Chicago, according to U.S. drug agents, to distribute multi-thousand kilo quantities for one of Mexico's most notorious cartels.

Share + Nov 19, 2009 8:56 pm US/Central Reporting Mike Parker 1 of 1 Mayor Daley had words of admiration for Oprah Winfrey on Thursday and suggested unfair criticism about her closure of Michigan Avenue may have expedited her departure from Chicago.

Collaboration and partnership between China and the United Sates are absolutely critical to a meaningful, substantive and programmatic climate solution, a U.S. environment expert has said.

A man has been charged with the attempted murder of an off-duty Chicago police officer after a shootout outside a daycare center where the officer was trying to pick up his daughter in March of 2008 in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Caryn Rousseau Chicago - The Associated Press Published on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 6:53PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Nov.

Mayor Richard Daley stormed out of a press conference Wednesday over questions concerning the death of Michael Scott.

A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed this afternoon in the South Chicago neighborhood as he was walking back to his home after school, his mother said.

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Community activists Melvin Bailey, left, Kublai Toure, and Harold Davis, right, speak about the suicide ruling in the death of Chicago Public School Board President Michael Scott during a news conference at Holy Starlight M.B. Church in Chicago, Wednesday, Nov.

Chalk-up another major trade show leaving McCormick Place, the second one to announce it's doing so within a week saying it's too expensive to hold a show here.

Playboy will return to its Chicago roots when it joins top nightlife promoters Global Adrenaline for a New Year's Eve celebration at the historic Hilton Chicago.

Share + Nov 18, 2009 5:33 pm US/Central Chicago police say they have found no evidence that Chicago Board of Education President Michael Scott was the victim of a homicide.

An allegedly drunken motorist from Niles is in police custody at an Evanston hospital after reportedly stealing a station wagon and plowing into a tree so hard it uprooted and came to rest 12 feet away early Wednesday in Chicago, police said.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says he's shocked by the death of Board of Education President Michael Scott.

In the wake of an $18 million reduction in regional school district transportation handed down from Beacon Hill recently, the Tantasqua Regional School District is weighing two very heavy options in attempts to offset their share of that burden.

Mayor Daley is demanding yet another round of concessions from McCormick Place unions to cut trade show operating costs and stop an exodus that has cost Chicago two major shows in the last week.

Divers returned to the Chicago River and investigators scoured cell phone records Tuesday as police declined to call the death of the city's school board president a suicide a day after an autopsy concluded he shot himself in the head.

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Federal prosecutors in Miami want the maximum prison sentences for five men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices.Prosecutors said in court papers filed Monday a federal judge should reject pleas for leniency.

The president of the Chicago Board of Education shot himself in the head along the Chicago River Monday morning, the medical examiner's office confirmed, according to MyFoxChicago.com. Police found what was believed to be the body of Michael Scott, 60, floating in the river hours later.