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Tribune reporters Sandra M. Jones, Kayce Ataiyero, Julie Wernau and Angie Leventis Lourgos and freelance writer Robert Channick are at local stores and malls to keep tabs on Black Friday, the official start of the holiday shopping season.

Fans of traditional Jewish delis have often wondered why there are so few good ones in Chicago.

The Christkindlmarkt, also called the German Christmas Market, at Daley Plaza in Chicago is opening on Wednesday, November 25, 2009.

Share + Nov 26, 2009 11:10 am US/Central 1 of 1 Timothy Loghtfoot, 18, was arrested in downstate Illinois and charged with the shooting death of a 17-year-old CPS high school student.

Facing a controversy regarding issuance of visa to LeT operative Tahawwur Hussain Rana, Indian Consul General in Chicago Ashok Atri has met External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and said that there was no violation of rules while issuing visa to Rahan for he had submitted all proper papers for the same.

Judicial Watch, a "conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, [that] promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law," is preparing to file a lawsuit against the city of Chicago to force them to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request they filed in September of this year.

A reminder of accountability was enough to prompt a change of heart by a City Council committee who had earlier criticized the mayor's $35 million property tax relief program.

Consultis, a national I.T. recruiting services firm, is pleased to announce the opening of their newest office in the Chicago, IL market.

Ita TMs been nearly two months since Robert Maday escaped from authorities and went on a two-day crime spree in the Chicagoland area.

With both seasonal and 2009 H1N1 influenzas circulating this year, getting vaccinated is more critical than ever.

Champaign- We're just a few days from Thanksgiving and now many in the area will have food to put on their table to make the holiday a little brighter.

A Chicago Lawn neighborhood man died when he was struck in the head by a forklift late Monday while working in an industrial park in southwest suburban Chicago Ridge.

What a difference a tax credit makes: Home sales spiked 33.3 percent in the Chicago metropolitan area in October from a year earlier, the fourth straight month of year-over-year increases, helped by record-low mortgage interest rates and a tax credit incentive that had been close to expiring.

Last week, the body of Chicago school board president Michael Scott was found in the Chicago River with a single bullet wound in his head.

Ten people -- including a North Side immigration attorney and several current or former Cook County employees -- were charged Monday in a federal indictment with allegedly participating in a marriage fraud conspiracy.

The Chicago Board of Education remembered Michael Scott at its first meeting since his death a week ago.

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Sharon Durling went to the morgue a few days ago to ID Wanda Jean Taylor's body.

One person died and another was injured overnight in an apartment fire on the city's West Side.

Last week, the body of Chicago school board president Michael Scott was found in the Chicago River with a single bullet wound in his head.