Because of its proximity to The Bean, they are calling it "The Screen."

Democratic candidate for governor says leadership lacking on issue

Democratic governor candidate Bill Daley injected campaign politics into the simmering policy debate on public pension reform, chastising Gov. Pat Quinn for a lack of leadership and potential candidate Attorney General Lisa Madigan for remaining mum on the issue.

All lanes on the Bishop Ford Freeway have reopened after a semi truck crashed this morning, toppling a light pole and causing traffic delays.

A man pushed a 24-year-old woman to the ground in the Mayfair neighborhood on the Northwest Side and sexually assaulted her Monday, police said.

Carla Oglesby accused of taking part in scheme to steal $300K

A top aide hired by former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger in the waning days of his administration launched a scheme with another aide to steal about $300,000 using fraudulent contracts and kickbacks paid in cash-stuffed envelopes, prosecutors said as her bench trial began Monday.

Nicole Harris spent nearly 8 years in prison before conviction was overturned in February

Even when she was released from prison, Nicole Harris wasn't free.

In an unusual legal concession, a longtime prosecutor from southern Illinois said Monday that he would agree to a new trial for a man convicted of murder amid allegations the prosecutor improperly injected racially charged language at the trial two years ago.

OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Michigan (Reuters) - FBI agents will resume searching an overgrown field in suburban Detroit on Tuesday for former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared nearly 38 years ago and is thought to have been murdered by members of organized crime.

At least eight people were shot Monday on the South and West sides, authorities said.

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who will be sentenced July 3 for looting his campaign treasury of about $750,000, said Monday that if both Jackson and his wife, Sandi Jackson, are sent to prison, he’d like to serve first.

Dozens of tearful friends and relatives poured into a Lemont funeral home today to mourn the four members of a family slain last week in a murder-suicide.

Rapper Keith Cozart, better known as Chief Keef, was arrested blocks from the Skokie Courthouse only minutes after he pleaded guilty to speeding 110 mph on the Edens Expressway last month.

Authorities are seeking the public's help in locating a 19-year-old Joliet resident wanted for questioning in the fatal shooting of another Joliet teen.

Police have launched a homicide investigation into the death of a man who had been impaled by a fence post Sunday night during a fight near his Burnside neighborhood home on the South Side, authorities said.

Dive teams finished a six-hour search of the Fox River today for a 28-year-old woman who went missing 14 years ago without finding anything.

A Cook County Jail inmate scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on charges of killing his baby son late last year was found hanged in his jail cell Sunday night, authorities said.

Nicole Harris sat on her bed this morning waiting for word from her lawyers, who were at the courthouse at 26th and California to learn her fate.

Twenty-two environmental activists who staged a sit-in to protest the expansion of the Keystone XL Pipeline that would bring crude oil from Canada to the United States were arrested as part of a planned protest this morning outside the State Department offices in the Loop, police said.

Walmart said Monday it plans to hire roughly 400 full-time and part-time workers at its new store in Pullman this fall.

The DuPage County Health Department confirmed Monday it has shut down Los Burritos Mexicanos restaurant in Lombard in connection with an investigation into four confirmed cases of E. coli.