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June 01--Moving toward operating an "essentially new" bus fleet within the next two years, the CTA will buy 425 buses and rebuild more than 1,000 older buses in a nearly half-billion-dollar modernization investment that's one of the most ambitious of its kind at the transit agency, officials will announce Friday.

May 31, 2012 -- SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A YouTube video of state Rep. Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, angrily screaming and throwing a ream of paper into the air on the Illinois House floor the other day has garnered more than 21,000 views so far.

May 31, 2012 -- A West Side man arrested Wednesday on child pornography charges had been downloading the illicit images and videos "for years," he told investigators upon his arrest.

Dan Pompei of the Chicago Tribune has been covering the NFL and the city of Chicago for a lot longer than me.

Martha “Marty” Gale has been hired to replace Brittany Hensley as advertising account executive at The Cambrian.

After nearly a year without a commercial alternative-rock station, Chicago has now has two - both of which pay homage to the old Q101: WKQX-LP on 87.7-FM and Q101 on WJJG-AM . Last July, Merlin Media dumped Chicago's modern-rock station, WKQX-FM , in favor of a young-skewing FM news format.

The Salt Lake Tribune) Shooting Star Drive-in owner Mark Gudenas has created his own outdoor movie theater complete with vintage convertibles.

An Ohio man says he was giving money to a panhandler in a wheelchair when the cash fell to the ground and he was cited by police for littering.

Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a historic gay bar in Greenwich Village in New York City, watch a news report earlier this month showing President Barack Obama voicing his support for same-sex marriage.

A Boeing 747 cargo plane clipped the tail of an American Eagle passenger plane on Wednesday at Chicago's O'Hare airport, according to reports.

An executive of Accretive Health apologized Wednesday morning to Minnesota patients who felt offended by aggressive debt-collection tactics at Fairview hospitals, but defended the company by saying that its work was done by "trusted, dedicated employees'' whose mission was to help patients pay their bills and help nonprofit hospitals improve their ... (more)

Madigan's plan, which incorporates some but not enough of Quinn's plan, keeps the reduced COLA.

The owner of Allentown's daily newspaper is streamlining its corporate structure for the possible sale of publishing and broadcast units after its exit from bankruptcy, according to a report .

CHICAGO - Business interests that pledged money to cover the costs of the NATO Summit are going to have to pay the Chicago's parking meter lease company.

May 29--A safe, clean, on-time ride. That's all most of us expect from the Chicago Transit Authority.

The quick actions of two Chicago citizens very well may have saved the life of a Tinley Park man as he nearly drowned Tuesday in Orland Park's Lake Sedgewick, reports the Chicago Tribune .

Eight people were killed and dozens were wounded in shootings in Chicago during the long Memorial Day weekend, police said on Tuesday.

In case holiday distractions caused you to miss it, The Tribune reported on Friday that the City of Chicago has lost a court case aimed at preventing the expansion of the River Bend Prairie Landfill into city territory on the far South Side.

A company planning to build a wind farm spread across four central Indiana counties is asking officials in 1 of those counties for property tax breaks on a future phase of the project.