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  • United Airlines resumes 787 flights after 4-month halt with flight from Houston to Chicago

    United Airlines is getting its 787s back in the air. The planes are flying again after being grounded for four months because of smoldering batteries on 787s owned by other airlines. The incidents included an emergency landing of one plane, and a fire on another. Federal authorities lifted the grounding order on April 19 but it has taken Boeing, which makes the plane, and the airlines a few ...

  • Chicago man breaks record for worlds longest Ferris wheel ride

    A manager of 's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than two days, bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favorite.Clinton Shepherd spent 48 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds riding Navy Pier's Ferris wheel over the weekend. Shepherd is park operations manager at Navy Pier.He calls it "a very overwhelming ...

  • Waukegan man held in 2012 stabbing of future son-in-law

    A Waukegan man was arrested last week after authorities allege he stabbed his daughter's fiance nine times during a dispute last year on Chicago's Far South Side.Claude Jones, 50, hit and struck the man Nov. 8, 2012, authorities said. Then, armed with a knife, Jones stabbed the man nine times in the chest, shoulder and back in the 8900 block of South Aberdeen Street, according to ...

  • Pops Italian Beef Sausage to open 2nd Orland Park operation

    A popular southside beef sandwich shop will be the first tenant in a multi-business development on the former Mobil gas station property at 159th Street and 94th ...

  • School-closing foes take to the streets again

    Beads of sweat dripped down Jitu Brown's face as he addressed about 150 marchers who had gathered Sunday afternoon outside Overton Elementary School in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. The school at East 49th Street and South Indiana Avenue is slated for closure as part of Chicago Public Schools' plan to shutter 53 elementary schools and one high school program. Closing ...


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Movie Review

The Haunted Strangler [DVD]

The Haunted Strangler [DVD]

By the late 1950s, Boris Karloff, one of the great icons of the horror cinema, was falling on hard times. Part of the problem was that the genre with which he was so completely associated was fast becoming a joke, plagued by artless, quickie B-movie garbage and goofy parod ... ...

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  • Chicago man accused of sexually assaulting two teens

    While hanging out with friends at his apartment, a 28-year-old Chicago man allegedly forced two teenage girls into his bedroom, where he sexually assaulted them as they tried to escape, Cook County prosecutors said Sunday. Everado Salinas stood stoically in court as prosecutors detailed the allegations, which also included slapping one of the teenagers and biting the other on her arms. Salinas ...

  • CTA braces for 1st workday of Red Line closure on South Side

    Dennis Cheatams, left, and David Jefferson check the schedule as they head to work on a Red Line shuttle bus from the CTA Green Line Garfield station on the first day of the Red Line South South construction project ...

  • Newtown parents join call to ban high-capacity gun magazines in Illinois

    Gov. Pat Quinn holds photographs of three boys killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting as Newtown parent Francine Wheeler, right, looks down Sunday during a news conference at the Thompson Center in Chicago. Two other Newtown parents joined a push in Illinois to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines ...

  • Troubled Dolton senior center a burden on taxpayers

    The Dorchester Senior Center in the south suburbs has a steady stream of visitors: attentive relatives, busy repairmen and, lately, inquisitive federal investigators. The five-story, village-owned building that looks out over a dreary interstate has been criticized in recent years as a patronage dump for the progeny of Dolton mayors. For the several dozen seniors who call the Dorchester home, ...

  • High school students turn to internships to help plot future

    Joe Lehnert, of Arlington Heights, works last week at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. He was offered a nurse assistant position there after completing an internship with Advocate Lutheran while in high ...

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