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Operation MOMS Cookies is a hometown charity that has been sending care packages to soldiers overseas since 2002. Full Story »

Chicago would waive its $4-a-month employee head tax for two years — but only for newly-hired employees — under a mayoral plan proposed Wednesday to stimulate job creation. Full Story »

A Menorah put up by a 14-year-old girl in a Libertyville park last week in preparation for Hanukkah celebrations was damaged sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning. Full Story »

Two days of surveillance of a suspected drug smuggler paid off for Chicago Police with a bust that led to two arrests and the seizure of more than 650 pounds of marijuana, with a street value of nearly $2 million. Full Story »

There were no grand prize winners in the Mega Millions drawing Tuesday night and the estimated jackpot rose. Full Story »

Facebook is changing its privacy settings to give users control over who sees the information they post on their personal pages. Full Story »

CHICAGO (WBBM) -- A long time mob watcher says it's logical for the feds to go after video poker machines in the Bridgeport neighborhood because it's right next to the home base of the mob's 26th Street or Chinatown crew. Full Story »

CHICAGO (AP) -- Construction of what would be North America's tallest building may move forward thanks to unions that not only want their workers to build it but are trying to put together a deal to help pay for it. Full Story »

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - A DuPage County judge has handed down a four-year prison sentence to a Bolingbrook man who admitted stealing two Pomeranian puppies from a pet store. Full Story »

CHICAGO (STMW) -- Sure the Cubs were iced out of the postseason, but a new day is dawning at Wrigley Field with new owners and even a new winter sporting season. Full Story »

AURORA, Ill. (STMW) -- This winter may be a little slicker for several west suburban Aurora residents whose snowplows have been taken in a recent burglary spree. Full Story »

BELVIDERE, Ill. (AP) - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board says it is sending a team to northern Illinois to investigate an explosion of a high pressure vessel at a technology plant that left one man dead. Full Story »

CHICAGO (STMW) -- A 14-year-old North Side girl who was missing for almost 20 hours from Tuesday to Wednesday morning has been found and reunited with her family. Full Story »

CHICAGO (STMW) -- Police are seeking the public's help in finding a man who went missing from the Northwest Side and was last heard from eleven days ago. Full Story »

CHICAGO (STMW/WBBM) -- Chicago police say a woman has reported $100,000 worth of jewelry stolen from a locker at the River North health club. Full Story »

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Deaf students are sharpening their spelling skills for the 13th annual statewide deaf finger-spelling bee. Fifth- to eighth-graders throughout Illinois are participating in the event in Springfield. Full Story »

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- The Internet's already drawn plenty of business away from newspapers. But a new study says social networks and online memorials are now putting pressure on the institution of the newspaper obituary. Full Story »

CHICAGO (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn will mark the one-year anniversary of Rod Blagojevich's arrest by signing into law Illinois' first-ever campaign contribution limits. Full Story »

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is testing for lead in the soil around homes in East Chicago that are near one the nation's most polluted sites. Full Story »

CHICAGO (AP) -- Officials say a week-long search turned up no Asian carp south of Chicago where the invasive fish's DNA was discovered this fall. Federal, state and local agencies said Tuesday that more than 800 fish were caught in nets during a search of a 5.5-mile stretch of the Cal-Sag Channel. Full Story »

CHICAGO (AP) -- Professionals who help older adults are meeting in Chicago for the Governor's Conference on Aging. The training event takes place Wednesday through Friday. The Illinois Department on Aging and the Illinois Department of Insurance are co-sponsoring the conference. Full Story »

Boy's parents come home early from shopping, surprise pair, barricade woman in bedroom.  Full Story »

A snow plow operator was just clearing the roads in far northwest suburban Fox Lake, when he saw a garage erupt into flames. Full Story »

A Chicago woman says she was hassled by a security guard when she walked into a bank, because of something she was wearing. COMMENT Full Story »

Late last year, a Will County jury found a southwest suburban Joliet woman guilty of violating the state's smoking ban. Full Story »