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CHICAGO (AP) — Jury selection is beginning in the trial of a former Chicago police official accused of lying about the long-ago torture of suspects. Jury selection starts Monday at ...

The Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky are off to sluggish starts, but one will come away with their first win of 2010 on Saturday night. That’s when the Eastern Conference’s ...

M any academics recently received a petition signed by 111 University of Chicago faculty members, explaining that “without any announcement to its own community, [the University] has commissioned Ann Beha ...

A group that has strongly opposed Chicago ’s policy of shutting down failing and underenrolled schools has won a shot at leading the Chicago Teachers Union. CORE candidate Karen Lewis ...

CHICAGO — Dustin Byfuglien has emerged as a force for the Chicago Blackhawks and now he is taking his game to the highest level. He and his teammates are headed ...

The most violent part of Chicago? It's a section of Chatham, the largely middle-class, African-American neighborhood on Chicago's South Side that has long been a bastion of black lawyers, cops, ...

All things considered, it was a pretty quiet week in Chicago. More clouds, not too much political drama. Next week that will change--alleged police torturer John Burge goes on trial ...

The vibe I'm getting is that the Washington Wizards are going with John Wall with the No. 1 overall pick no matter what. They just don't see any reason to ...

DES MOINES — Shares of money manager Waddell & Reed Financial ... E-minis are tied to the value of the S&P 500 index. They're traded electronically on the Chicago Mercantile ...

MILWAUKEE -- Authorities say a baseball spectator has died nearly three weeks after he fell at Miller Park before a Milwaukee Brewers game. Stuart Springstube of Weyauwega was reaching over ...