Both taxpayers and the environment could be stripped of their green as Chicago-area landfills accumulate trash at more than double the rate of the state average, officials said last Thursday.

As an independent, I have voted for every party on the ticket ranging form Socialist to Libertarian. In the nearly 20 years that I’ve been voting, I have never chosen a winning president.

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The Chicago Police Department has reported that a man attempted to lure a 13-year-old girl into his car near 95th Street and Winchester Avenue.

Police described the man, as 30 to 40 years old and driving a rusty white, older-model, four-door hatchback with a wide black stripe down the sides. Police said a baby seat was in the back passenger seat of the car.

Ald. Ginger Rugai told a packed gymnasium at Keller School Thursday that Chicago Public Schools would relocate the city's top-performing elementary school over her dead body.

Parents of the 240 students at Keller Elementary Gifted Magnet School are expected to pack the school gym tonight for a meeting at 6 p.m.

A couple of days ago Chicago police conducted a drug raid on a home in Mt. Greenwood.

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Almost nine months ago to the day, neighbors – and the city as a whole – seemingly let out a collective gasp when the South Side Irish Parade Committee announced that the annual Irish Parade had b

Two Mount Greenwood neighbors and one Beverly neighbor are part of the the second production of the Beverly Theatre Guild's 2009-2010 season, "Arsenic and Old Lace."