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  • Home Minister Shinde in Washington India seeks access to Rana Headley

    India has sought access from the US to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Rana, both of undergoing sentence awarded by a Chicago court after being found guilty of terrorism charges. While there was no official word from either side on the issues discussed in particular those with reference to Headley and Rana, officials said it was prominently ...

  • Brian Urlacher No athlete since Michael Jordan symbolized Chicago more

    Chicago middle linebacker Brian Urlacher watches from the sideline during the second half of their Oct. 7 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File) CHICAGO -- Whenever Brian Urlacher does something to confirm he hates attention as much as he loves football -- grunt through a news conference, breeze by adoring fans, retire via Twitter -- my ...

  • 49 Chicago schools to close

    The Chicago Board of Education has voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer 27,000 students to new classrooms, officials said. Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd-Bennett gave four other schools, which were scheduled for closing, a last-minute reprieve. Wednesday's vote came after months of arguments over ...

  • Gang Member Gets 25 Years For Double Homicide In Griffith

    HAMMOND, Ind. (STMW) – A Latin Kings street gang member will serve 25 years in prison in connection with his part in the double homicide outside a Griffith restaurant in February 2007. The sentence is five years less than Jason Ortiz's co-defendant Martin Anaya received earlier Thursday at his sentencing hearing at the U.S. District Court in Hammond. Both men were sentenced in ...

  • Census Data Chicago Slowest Growing Big City In U.S.

    CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago gained nearly 10,000 people from July 2011 to July 2012, but was the slowest-growing major city in the country according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday. It was the second year in a row that population grew here, but the increase so far shows no signs of making up for the loss of 200,000 people over the previous decade, according to a report in ...


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Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy

"Midnight Cowboy" is many things: an astute character study, a buddy picture, a human comedy, a stark drama, and an honest and straightforward depiction of the seedy world of male prostitution in New York. What is most amazing about the film is its refusal to age. It won the Best Picture Oscar in 1969, but viewing it twenty-five years later seems to have done nothing to undermine its impact. It is ... ...

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  • Chicago Man Shot And Killed In Calumet City

    CALUMET CITY, Ill. (STMW) – A 35-year-old South Side man was shot to death in south suburban Calumet City early Thursday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's ...

  • Jury Deliberates Whether Trump ‘Conned’ 87-Year-Old Woman

    CHICAGO (STMW) – Is Donald Trump a "reprehensible" conman who ripped off an Evanston grandmother and "stole her faith in other people?" Or is the real estate magnate being unfairly sued by a "sophisticated investor" who bought two hotel condos in the Trump Tower "with her eyes wide open" but got buyer's remorse and backed out? Those -- in a ...

  • Two Hurt When CTA Bus Crashes Into Building In Chicago Lawn

    CHICAGO (CBS) – Two people were taken to the hospital early Thursday, after a CTA bus crashed into a building. WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports police said someone cut off the #52A Kedzie bus around 4:45 a.m. as it was driving north on Kedzie Avenue near 64th Street, with at least one set of the bus wheels rolling on wet metal sheeting covering roadwork on ...

  • McHenry Officials Warn Of Rental Property Scams

    (CBS) – Authorities in McHenry County have warned residents about a housing scam that tricks would-be renters into sending money to rent a place that’s not even on the market. WBBM’s Steve Miller reports it’s a scam where the scammers used to operate mostly in other countries. ';It is no longer just a foreign, overseas scam. It is now becoming a local situation, ...

  • Police Warn Of Smart Phone Thefts In Bronzeville

    CHICAGO (CBS) – Police are seeking two teenaged thieves, who allegedly stole smart phones twice in the past week on or near 35th Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood, near the IIT ...

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