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April 2008
- Chicago Hit With Early Crime Wave
  
  Chicago Tribune | Apr 25, 08 12:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An explosion of violence in Chicago last weekend—three dozen shootings that resulted in seven deaths—and a quintuple homicide on Wednesday have local police struggling for an explanation, as well as a response. Crime usually jumps later in the year, the Chicago Tribune notes, when both the weather and gang activity heat up. More »
- 'Chicago Was His Harvard of Politics'
  
  Wall Street Journal | Apr 21, 08 12:26 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama’s unconventional personal background contrasts sharply with the roots of his political instincts and career. In Chicago's patronage-happy system, the young pol learned to break bread with conservatives, play to the black masses, and even get his back up when necessary. The Wall Street Journal examines the candidate’s years in Chicago. More »
- Mild 5.2 Earthquake Shakes Up Chicago
  
  Chicago Tribune | Apr 18, 08 7:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A moderate earthquake in southern Illinois was enough to wake far-off Chicago-area residents this morning, but no major damage was reported, the Chicago Tribune notes. The shake-up reached 5.2 on the Richter scale, shy of an area record of 5.4, but enough to move furniture. “For people in central Illinois, this is a big deal. It's not like California,” said a local man. Residents of Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Des Moines also felt the tremor. More »
- Cougar Killed on Chicago Street
  
  Chicago Tribune | Apr 15, 08 10:22 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The first cougar spotted in Chicago since the city's 19th-century founding ran loose around the Windy City over the weekend only to be shot dead last night in a North Side neighborhood by police officers who feared it was going to attack them, the Chicago Tribune reports. As the police chief puts it: "There was no way to take it into custody." More »
March 2008
- Star Chicago Chef's Mouth Cancer in Remission
  
  Chicago Tribune | Mar 18, 08 3:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Chicago chef Grant Achatz’s oral cancer is in remission, the Chicago Tribune reports. The culinary star endured nearly 6 months of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and says he is “happy to say I've had a clean biopsy.” Foodies can now find Achatz back at Alinea, his award-winning restaurant in downtown Chicago. More »
- Obama Campaign Drops Rev. Wright
  
  CNN | Mar 15, 08 5:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Jeremiah Wright, the militant Chicago minister and spiritual adviser to Barack Obama, is off the senator’s campaign, CNN reports. Wright will no longer sit on the senator’s African-American Religious Leadership Committee, the campaign announced. Obama has often said he rejects the reverend’s more incendiary opinions, especially his comment that the US deserved the 9/11 attacks. But yesterday the candidate went further, calling some old sermons that have come to light this week "inflammatory and appalling." More »
- Rezko Corruption Trial Begins
  
  Chicago Sun-Times | Mar 3, 08 9:19 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - With jury selection beginning for the corruption trial of Chicago businessman and political fundraiser Tony Rezko, the Chicago Sun-Times offers some background on the key facets of the case. Rezko, a Syrian-born real estate and fast-food tycoon who established footholds in the Illinois governor's circles, is accused of pocketing illegal payouts from companies wishing to do business with the state. More »
February 2008
- NIU Shooting Victims Profiled
  
  Chicago Tribune | Feb 16, 08 2:08 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - An Army Corps of Engineers vet who wanted to be a first grade teacher. A violinist who knit for fun. A rugby player and frat man who worked for the student newspaper. The Chicago Tribune profiles the five students gunned down in their oceanography class Thursday at North Illinois University, while police are still searching for the killer's motive. All of the victims—four of them women—had Illinois hometowns. More »
- NIU Gunman Had Stopped Taking Meds
  
  Chicago Tribune | Feb 15, 08 10:38 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - The gunman who killed five and wounded 15 in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall yesterday was identified this morning as Steven Kazmierczak, an ex-NIU grad student who had won top sociology department honors, the Chicago Tribune reports. "There were no red flags," said the campus police chief. But police said this morning he had recently stopped taking regular medication and had been behaving erratically. More »
- 6th Student Dies in NIU Shooting
  
  Chicago Tribune | Feb 15, 08 5:29 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - A sixth victim of the gunman who opened fire in an Illinois college classroom yesterday has died and at least four more remain in critical condition. The assailant, a former grad student at Northern Illinois University, entered through a door to the right of the lecture stage and silently started shooting. He fired a shotgun at the more than 100 students in Geology 104, then shot and wounded the instructor with a handgun, and then shot himself. More »
- Chicago Gets Olympic Makeover
  
  Washington Post | Feb 4, 08 4:17 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Chicago is serious about hosting the 2016 Olympics, and the city is doing everything possible to land the event, the Washington Post reports. The buzzword is "global": Chicago is entertaining foreign dignities, teaching new languages in its schools, and erecting public sculptures and buildings. But for the Windy City’s poor, the campaign carries a steep price. More »
- Chicago Cops Seek Killer of 5
  
  Chicago Sun-Times | Feb 2, 08 2:00 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Police are searching for a stocky black man who reportedly shot five women dead in a Chicago mall burglary this morning, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Police surrounded the Tinley Park mall after shots were reported at a Lane Bryant store just before 11 a.m. “There is no question it was a horrific scene,’’ said a police source. More »
January 2008
- Sketchy Donor Could Sully Obama's Image
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jan 23, 08 4:17 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Barack Obama’s relationship with a longtime contributor facing federal fraud charges could mar the candidate’s image as a politician unfettered by special interests. On Monday, Hillary Clinton slammed Obama with the allegation that he represented Antoin Rezko, a “slum landlord.” While that was an exaggeration, Rezko’s connection to Obama’s political career is stronger than he has acknowledged, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »
- Mahony Griffin: Unsung Genius
  
  New York Times | Jan 1, 08 9:38 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - You may never have heard of her, but you have seen her work. Marion Mahony Griffin illustrated much of Frank Lloyd Wright's early work. She also illustrated the work of Walter Burley Griffin, her architect husband. She may have been one of America's greatest architects in her own right, the New York Times reports, overlooked because of her self-effacing nature and the tendency of scholars to pursue "great men" theories of history. More »
December 2007
- Chicago May Ban Pet Chickens
  
  Associated Press | Dec 12, 07 6:34 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Are chickens a city pet? Chicago’s city council is nearing a vote on a proposal to ban chicken ownership, even as green- and organic-minded citizens around the country increasingly keep the birds for eggs, yard work, and companionship. Among worries for Chicago politicians, the AP reports, are that chickens’ waste attracts rodents and that the birds might transmit avian flu. More »
- Gauguin Sculpture a Fake
  
  Associated Press | Dec 12, 07 12:03 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - After a decade on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, a ceramic figure allegedly sculpted by Paul Gauguin was revealed yesterday to be a fake. The museum discovered 'The Faun,' a half-man, half-goat figure, to be the work not of the 19th century French artist, but of a British family notorious for producing art forgeries, the AP reports. More »
- A Fight Club at U Chicago?!
  
  Chicago Maroon | Dec 1, 07 11:23 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - While the movie Fight Club spawned many imitators after its 1999 release, it took eight years for a fight club to emerge at the notoriously intellectual University of Chicago. Called Thunderdome, after the 1985 Mad Max movie, the fight club meets outdoors, on the quads on campus, late at night. There are up to eight fights a night, some lasting only seconds. More »
November 2007
- Henry Hyde Dies at 83
  
  Chicago Tribune | Nov 29, 07 8:59 AM CST