BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - The Dalai Lama will teach about the "heart" of Buddhism during his sixth visit to Bloomington next May and also present a public talk in Indianapolis. The Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, founded by the Dalai Lama's brother south of Bloomington, announced the May schedule on its Web site. It says the 74-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize ... Full Story »
As the prosecutor wrapped up his closing argument this afternoon, he slowly recited the first names of the 11 women allegedly raped and murdered by Andre Crawford. "Patricia, Rhonda, Angela, Shaguanta, Claudia, Sonji," Assistant State's Atty. George Canellis intoned. "Evandre, Nicole, Cheryl, Tommie, Sheryl, and Constance. As the years passed and as these young ladies disappeared, it almost ... Full Story »
A Streamwood man was being held on $50,000 bond today after he was charged with forcing his wife to have sex during an attack in which he bit and choked her until she passed out, authorities reported. Dana Green, 45, of the 100 block of Filbert Drive, was charged with two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault at a hearing before Judge Joel Greenblatt in Rolling Meadows branch of Cook ... Full Story »
An attorney who was convicted of stealing more than $137,000 from her legal partner was sentenced Wednesday to six months in the Kane County jail and ordered to make restitution. Ann M. Day, 52, of far west suburban La Fox had been found guilty of theft and forgery charges in October, and has been held in the jail since then awaiting sentencing. With credit for time served and other sentencing ... Full Story »
The westbound side of Dundee Road in Wheeling between Wolf Road and Milwaukee Avenue will be reduced to one lane until this evening as crews fix a water main break, police in the north suburb said. The closure is expected to affect rush-hour traffic, police said. Full Story »
One woman was injured when a car hit a building on the Northwest Side this afternoon, authorities said. The woman, whose age was not immediately available, was taken in fair-to-serious condition to Resurrection Medical Center from the crash, said Quention Curtis, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman. The car hit a building in the 5800 block of West Irving Park Road about 12:05 p.m., according to ... Full Story »
A Bellwood man who intentionally ran down the 11-year-old son of his estranged girlfriend in a Woodridge parking lot, was sentenced today to 18 years in prison. The boy suffered road burns over 90 percent of his body and a torn ear that needed to be reattached. Tiyon Tyson, 29, of the 3400 block of Warren Avenue in the west suburb, pleaded guilty earlier this year to aggravated battery of a ... Full Story »
A teenage girl pleaded guilty today to beating a 13-year-old Lombard girl at a village festival in an attack that was captured on video and posted on a popular Internet site last summer. Another Lombard teen girl, also charged with aggravated battery in the same case, asked for a trial date. Both defendants are high school freshmen. The victim is currently in 8th grade and knew the defendants ... Full Story »
Andy Myroup works on building an ice rink in the west parking lot at Wrigley Field this morning. The rink is waiting for the cooling coils to be put into place before putting the ice down. (Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune) A parking lot next to Wrigley Field is expected to be the site this winter of a public ice-skating rink starting Dec. 15, Chicago Park District officials said today. The park ... Full Story »
Bales of marijuana in the back of a van seized by Chicago Police. ( Chicago police photos) Chicago police said a surveillance operation led to the seizure of $1.8 million worth of marijuana and the arrest of two apparent members of a drug smuggling ring operating out of Mexico. On Tuesday, police said, they saw a Hammond man they had been following for two days drive into a Stickney truck yard ... Full Story »
Gov. Pat Quinn signs a campaign finance reform law at the Thompson Center this morning. (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune) Choosing the symbolic date of the one-year anniversary of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich's arrest on federal corruption charges, Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law the state's first-ever limits on campaign contributions. The idea behind the law is to limit the influence of money ... Full Story »
Police gather near where a body was found in the Chicago River at Central Park Ave on the Northwest Side Wednesday morning. (Mike Anzaldi/For the Chicago Tribune) Police were conducting a death investigation after a body was found this morning in a stretch of the North Branch of the Chicago River in the city's Albany Park neighborhood. Someone spotted something in the river at the 5000 block of ... Full Story »
Chicago police and fire department officials inspect an apartment at Winnemac and Glenwood . (Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune) A man in his 40s was critically injured in an apartment fire this morning in Uptown , a Chicago Fire Department spokesman said. The fire broke out at about 7:30 a.m. in the basement unit of a building in the 1400 block of West Winnemac Avenue, said the spokesman, Quention ... Full Story »
A snow-plow driver clearing roads in Fox Lake Tuesday night saw smoke coming from a detached garage, called 911 and alerted residents of the home to the fire, a fire official from the far north suburban village said this morning. Curt Cusker, a retired firefighter, saw the fire at the garage in the 0-99 block of Eagle Point Road at about 10:30 p.m., said Fox Lake Fire Department Battalion Chief ... Full Story »
Chicago police were serving a search warrant at a home in the Far South Side 's Roseland neighborhood when a carpet fire broke out inside, authorities said. The incident happened just after 7 a.m. in the 100 block of East 111th Street, police said. The fire broke out at about the same time, though the cause was unclear, said Chicago Police Officer JoAnn Taylor, a police spokeswoman. No injuries ... Full Story »
A 14-year-old girl previously reported missing from her Lincoln Park home was found safe this morning, Chicago police said. Leslie Sinclair was found at about 9:30 a.m. and reunited with her family, police said. She was taken to an area hospital for observation. Sinclair was last seen in her North Side apartment about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 2200 block of North Lincoln Avenue. She was with a ... Full Story »
As a suspect from Chicago who is accused of aiding last year's Mumbai terror attacks pleaded not guilty today, FBI Director Robert Mueller was in the city for a briefing on the case. David Coleman Headley, who is accused of conducting surveillance that paved the way for the attacks that killed 170 people, including six Americans, said little as he entered his plea in federal court this morning ... Full Story »
A 69-year-old man died after his car was struck from behind at a North Side intersection, police said. An autopsy done this morning showed that the man -- identified as James Chiakulas of the 5300 block of North Sheridan Road -- died of heart disease, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. The collision happened about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at Hollywood Avenue and Sheridan Road. The ... Full Story »
A 53-year-old man was shot and wounded Tuesday night during an apparent home invasion at his apartment in the Auburn Gresham community on Chicago 's South Side , police said. The victim answered a knock on the door of his third-floor unit in the 700 block of West 80th Street shortly before 10 p.m. and answered it, expecting his brother, Chicago police said. Two men, one of them with a handgun ... Full Story »
A woman running away from Chicago police jumped into the lagoon near Lincoln Park Zoo early this morning, but was pulled out, authorities said. The woman, who may have mental problems, was taken to a local hospital, police said. Her condition was unavailable. The officers spotted the woman in the park surrounding the lagoon about 3:30 a.m. and approached her. As they did, the woman ran and ... Full Story »
Alexi Dohnal arrived at the East Bank Club Tuesday for a facial, changed into a spa robe and -- without giving it a second thought -- placed her eight-carat diamond ring and wedding band and her gold Cartier watch in a locker. When she returned, she found the lock broken and her jewelry gone. "My world was spinning, I was so confused," said Dohnal. Her first thought was that an attendee had ... Full Story »
Traffic travels on Route 126 south of Oswego today. (Scott Strazzante/ Chicago Tribune) Commuters traveling in some of the Chicago area's outlying suburbs may have a rough time during evening rush hour, as temperatures drop -- freezing area roadways, bridges and ramps -- and some areas experience blowing and drifting snow. Areas that have been hardest hit by snow over the last day and a half are ... Full Story »
Gov. Pat Quinn and Comptroller Dan Hynes sparred today over who could best lead Illinois out of its fiscal morass, accusing each other of spinning untruths about everything from cemetery oversight to tax proposals in an effort to win the Feb. 2 Democratic primary for governor. During a combative interview session with the Tribune editorial board, Hynes characterized Quinn as a flip-flopper and ... Full Story »
The chief judge of Cook County Circuit Court is creating a domestic violence division to try to improve communication among judges and ensure that abuse victims don't fall through the cracks. Chief Judge Timothy Evans said he favors other recommendations made by a task force -- such as hiring new judges, strengthening sanctions against offenders and improving the intake of victims who turn to ... Full Story »
Their new home could make an episode of "MTV Cribs" -- a $27 million estate with spacious outdoor yards, dens with skylights and a 15-foot waterfall spilling into a temperature-controlled pool. Except the inhabitants are not typical celebrities: They can weigh around 800 pounds, they enjoy foraging for food in the dirt and, before they are moved, they are immobilized with a dart. Three polar ... Full Story »
Christmas decorations illuminate Berlin's main shopping streets. AP Photo/Franka Bruns
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