The stocks of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade surged Tuesday. picked by robfouryqr 2 years ago

$600,000 car found abandoned on Chicago expressway.
(car in thumbnail not actual size) picked by Dangerman 1 year ago

A 150-pound cougar was gunned down by Chicago police Monday after it was loose in a residential area on the city's North Side. (Story includes photo of the cougar walking right behind a policeman) picked by escaflowne 6 months ago

More than 120 people who ate from the same booth at the Taste of Chicago food festival last week became ill, at least nine of them with salmonella poisoning and 10 who were hospitalized. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The Chicago Bulls, off to a disappointing start after making the playoffs in each of the last three seasons, have fired head coach Scott Skiles. picked by tchengrox 10 months ago

The chairman of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners visited a 114-year-old woman who registered to vote on Thursday. It was also her birthday, according to her family, who cite a family Bible as evidence of her birth date. picked by muppet 9 months ago

Three Chicago suburbs called emergency meetings to temporarily lift public smoking bans after bar owners asserted that the bans caused business to decline during the Bears' playoff run. picked by Wingnut 2 years ago

A police officer has been arrested in the off-duty beating of a 15-year-old high school student, the Chicago Police Department said Sunday. picked by kxmk 1 year ago

Several cars in Chicago's Printer's Row neighborhood received impromptu makeovers recently when vandals spray-painted large smiley faces on them.

Was this you, suebe? hehe picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The singer who played Billy Flynn in the Broadway production of Chicago got strep throat and won't be in any more performances. picked by musicgirldani 2 years ago

Iraqi born Wafaa Bilal sits in self imposed isolation in a Chicago art gallery. Internet visitors can observe him and fight for control of a paintball gun - Bilal has been shot at over 40,000 times since the exhibit began. Take a look (or a shot) here picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

A risque billboard promoting divorce has sparked surprise and outrage in some Chicago residents and divorce lawyers. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Apparently one of the voting machines had a plastic stylus instead of an ink stamp. The pollworkers apparently overrode the machine when it said the ballots were blank.... It only affected 20 ballots, and somehow they were able to contact those voters to return and re-vote.... And you thought LA was bad! On the LA news, I heard this was a deliberate act, and that it was a LOT of voters, and oh... read full post picked by bcgrote 8 months ago

That's a lot of Porta Potties. picked by nomedaboy 2 years ago

Four human skulls were discovered in a man's apartment, one boiling in a pot of water, but authorities said charges aren't likely. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

He was chairman of Wirtz Beverage Group, president of Wirtz Corp. and Wirtz Realty, director of First Security Trust and Savings Bank and chairman of the South Miami Bank Corp. He also served as a director of U.S. Bancorp and Alberto Culver. picked by punthe 1 year ago

A study of prostitute's income, by the same people who studied street drug dealers. Some of the findings show that: # Prostitutes work, on average, thirteen hours a week # Prostitutes earn, on average, $340 a week # Condoms are used 20 percent of the time # Pimps take 25%, but those prostitutes with pimps earn 50% more than those without pimps# Roughly half of all tricks are with repeat cust... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 9 months ago

A 12-year-old girl claims to have suffered $500,000.00 of psychological distress when a substitute teacher showed the film “Brokeback Mountain” to her eighth-grade class. picked by BrownTrout 1 year ago

Chicagoans eat more chocolate and drink more cola than other U.S. urbanites, and are among the top consumers of energy drinks and coffee. picked by Proverb 11 months ago

Chicago police say it took cleanup workers more than nine hours to get all the cheese off the Chicago Skyway after a weekend truck accident. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago