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The House voted Thursday to indefinitely extend a 45 percent inheritance tax on estates larger than $3.5 million, canceling a one-year repeal of the tax set to begin next month.

The Bridgeview Police Department launched an event this week that is the first of its kind.

It was a case that garnered national and international attention. A 16-year-old girl says she was gang raped at a party in an upscale Burr Ridge home.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Tuesday announced three lawsuits against mortgage rescue fraud schemes operating in Illinois as part of a national crackdown with the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice.

I would like to differ with a Daily Herald commentary published on Sunday, Oct. 25 by Froma Harrop in which she called the crusade against marijuana ill-conceived. Harrop believes that by ending the ban on pot gangs will go away.

This week, a Cook County judge sentenced Dwain Kyles and Calvin Hollins to two years in prison for "indirect criminal contempt." The charges sound, well, almost trumped up.

An Orland Park landlord refused to rent a home to blacks, the U.S. attorney alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday.

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.

You never think it will happen to you; getting attacked in your own home. But it did happen to a 62-year-old Chicago man earlier this week and on Friday, he was still in the hospital recovering.

Although it missed a probate deadline, Shriners Hospitals for Children can sue a former Wilmette pastor that it claims influenced a Skokie woman to leave more than $2 million to him instead of the institution.

" Performing David Meyer comedies has become an autumn tradition for the Village of Orland Park Theatre Troupe with this year's fare being the Meyer comedy, "Sound Effects." "The cast and the audience always enjoy David Meyer's shows because they're very clever and always include plays on words," said Executive Producer Irene Buikema, program ...

Welcome to my rail fan page! Here you'll find information and pictures of railroad related items from the Chicagoland area, Wisconsin and Indiana.

Share + Oct 21, 2009 10:37 pm US/Central Reporting Dave Savini AURORA, Ill. 1 of 1 Jennifer Washington has spina bifida and her family paid a contractor $31,000 to build her a wheelchair accessible bathroom, but the contractor never finished the work and left a big hole in their yard.

In describing the fall period, Minocqua, Wisc. guide Kurt Justice summoned the spirit of Dennis Green : ``We're where we thought we are!?'' And, as befits fall, it is muskie time all over the upper Midwest.

Steve Bernstein once wrote the law as an Evanston alderman. Now, he's campaigning to be the one to uphold it.

" October 10, 2009. Governor Pat Quinn today joined parents, lawmakers and neighborhood activists to stress the need for more anti-violence programs for youths and to highlight the positive influence such efforts have on the community.

Newpaper photo of Mary Bregovy Even if your not a big fan of the coming Halloween season, you can't have lived in the Chicago area without hearing of "Resurrection Mary" Although the stories about Mary differ slightly, the general legend revolves around a young man who meets a young, blonde Polish girl in a dance hall in the 1930s.

Where did our billions go? STIMULUS PLANS Web sites spell out wide uses of TARP funds, how much banks got Comments October 3, 2009 The federal government has spent billions on saving banks and stimulating the economy, but what are you, Joe and Jane taxpayer, getting out of it? Web sites are popping up to show how to find where the money is going ...

Thomas R. Fitzgerald, chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, allowed about 15 students a glimpse inside the Supreme Court chambers Monday night.

A Justice mother who argued a bus stop threatened the safety of her children still faces eviction.