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Thursday, November 19, 2009 Law - "Chicago's Camera Network Is Everywhere: Extensive Surveillance System Integrates Nonpolice Video, Raises Concerns About Possible Privacy Abuses" From today's WSJ , this story by William M. Bulkeley, reporting that not only are there video cameras all over Chicago, but they are linked together into a giant web.

The apparent suicide of Chicago Public School Board President Michael Scott didn't fit with the man friends and family said they knew.

30, 2009 11am, Federal Plaza Flyer: www.howgreenischicago.org/n30flyersmall.jpg On N30, the 10th anniversary of the nonviolent shut-down of the WTO meetings in Seattle and one week before the UN climate negotiations begin in Copenhagen, community groups from across Chicago and beyond are coming together to take part in an international day of ...

The University of Illinois at Chicago has named a new head of the economics department.

Funeral and memorial services for Chicago School Board President Michael Scott have been announced.

National Guard soldiers bring a variety of life and work experiences with them on deployment, and even the smallest unit can include a surprising array of skills and experience.

When the mortar rounds started exploding around him, Master Sgt. Pedro Medina scrambled for cover.

A new study of workers at 50 hotels in the United States found that women were 50 percent more likely to be injured than men, and that Hispanic women had an injury rate two-thirds higher than their white female counterparts.

After an emotional appeal from a straight-A student facing deportation in 33 days, a City Council committee agreed today to champion the cause of Rigo Padilla and others caught in the switches while awaiting immigration reform.

While some recent studies have cast doubt on whether exercise can help obese people shed pounds, a recent small study has found that fasting had significant success at trimming waistlines.

Women's careers are being stymied by more than a glass ceiling. Bosses believe women have more family-work conflict, which is a misconception that is holding them back, according to new research.

GM was to roll out the Regal on Thursday in Los Angeles, and it's counting on the sleek-looking sedan to claw out a new market for the once-stodgy Buick, now the official brand of bingo night at the senior center.

Illinois had a sudden surge in foreclosures in October, up 57 percent from a year ago, that pushed the state to the notoriously higher No.

To get down to a healthy weight, obese and overweight people often struggle to cut their daily caloric intake by a necessary 15 percent to 40 percent.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a $4 million federal grant to develop new antibiotics to treat anthrax, tularemia and plague.

A greater share of prized Chicago magnet school seats would go to the brothers and sisters of current magnet students -- as well as to neighborhood kids -- under a long-awaited magnet admission plan expected to be unveiled this week.

Chemicals used in industrial applications may affect cholesterol levels A new study has revealed that chemicals used in commercial and industrial applications such as surfactants, paper and textile coatings and food packaging might affect serum cholesterol levels in people.

University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine researchers have identified the important role a protein plays in the body's first line of defense in directing immune cells called neutrophils toward the site of infection or injury.

Shoved aside in 1994 to make way for an expanded University of Illinois at Chicago, the legendary Maxwell Street Market is in for yet another overhaul - this time to bring it back to its former glory.