Новости за 02.03.2018

Police warned the public not to a confront a 19-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting two people on Friday at a Central Michigan University residence hall, saying he is considered dangerous and likely still in the area.

Loyola Medicine’s $270 million acquisition of MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn was finalized Thursday.

Facing a $3.1 million projected deficit and continued declining enrollment, Warren Township High School District 121 is set to lay off three teachers and one librarian this summer, its superintendent said.

Since he was indicted on allegations related to an extramarital affair, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has shifted into attack mode, zeroing in on the St. Louis prosecutor who launched the investigation with comments decried by some critics as politically or racially charged.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel didn’t say directly Friday whether he would apologize to the mother of Quintonio LeGrier — a 19-year-old shot to death by a Chicago police officer in 2015 — after court records show an attorney representing the city asked if she had engaged in prostitution with the teen’s father.

A student from southwest suburban Chicago has been identified as the suspected gunman who fatally shot two people at Central Michigan University on Friday and remains at large.

Aly Raisman spent months urging the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics to get serious about taking a long hard look into how Larry Nassar's abusive conduct was allowed to run unchecked for so long.

A taxi driver was denied bail Friday morning and is facing four felony charges after a woman said he sexually abused her inside his taxi at the lakefront on the North Side, Chicago police said.

A 14-year-old boy was fatally wounded Friday morning in a shooting on the South Side in the McKinley Park neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Jared Kushner’s real estate firm is facing scrutiny over the recent $184 million refinancing of its Loop office tower by a private equity fund after its founder met with Kushner at the White House.

A Cook County judge has quietly placed a “gag order” on attorneys involved in the case of a former Northwestern professor and a British national charged in a fatal stabbing last summer.

The 2018 graduating class of Gary’s Wirt-Emerson School of Visual and Performing Arts is likely its last.

Some Aurora residents are not happy about plans to build a new Burger King in their neighborhood.

“We don’t tolerate inappropriate behavior. We just don’t tolerate it,” House Speaker Michael Madigan insisted Tuesday, vowing to end a culture of sexual harassment and bullying in Illinois government and politics. Maybe it was a moment of enlightened leadership. Maybe Madigan knows that he’s been...

Loyola won 25 games in the regular season on the strength of its pretty shooting.

Since losing her daughter five years ago, Terri Oesterle has been speaking out about the challenges she endured. She speaks about her daughter’s alcohol addiction, the bullying she experienced, and the stigma around mental health. Lately, she’s also been speaking about liver transplants.

Despite last year's infamous best picture mix-up, Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty are expected back at this year's Oscars to again present the final award. Sources confirmed the duo will give it another try on Sunday, this time with much more attention to the handling of the envelope.

Co-working firm Spaces plans to take over an eight-story River North building previously leased to Sports Authority, continuing a trend of large retail spaces being converted to new uses.

The driver of a tractor-trailer that struck and killed a northwest Indiana man and injured three others in a seven-vehicle pileup on I-290 on Thursday has been cited for failing to reduce his speed, authorities said.

The Securities and Exchange Commission late last year dropped its inquiry into a financial company that a month earlier had given White House adviser Jared Kushner's family real estate firm a $180 million loan.

Jon Lester isn’t budging from his goal of throwing 200 innings in 2018, even though the evolution of the game suggests he may want to lower his sights.

Chicken noodle or tomato? J.R. Smith didn't serve up any explanation.

Cleveland's mercurial shooting guard declined an interview request Friday, a day after the Cavaliers suspended him one game for throwing a bowl of soup at assistant coach Damon Jones.

The soup toss came following Thursday's shootaround...

Decades from now, will anyone remember Northwestern’s 2017-18 season? When the players return to campus to be feted and the video montage ends with the dog-pile celebration after the win over Michigan at the “old” Welsh-Ryan Arena, will fans even recall the inglorious follow-up?

Kirk Cousins or Sam Darnold? Case Keenum or Josh Rosen?

It's not quite that simple, of course. Not every NFL team desperately in need of a quarterback will get to choose this offseason between a top free agent and a leading draft prospect. But at least there are some possibilities out there. There...

For nearly two decades, suburban Republicans had a political name brand on the ticket in a North Shore congressional district as Mark Kirk won five straight times and Robert Dold won twice and lost twice.