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Route approval sought for new highway near Chicago

LOWELL, Ind. (AP) — Indiana and Illinois officials have asked federal agencies to approve a proposed route for a highway that would link Interstate 65 in northwestern Indiana and Interstate 55 in Illinois. The Illiana Expressway route picked by the...

Tags: Science and Technology, Highway Transportation, Wilmington

Senate sends Quinn DePaul Arena, McCormick Place bill

Tribune reporter

The Illinois Senate today sent a bill to Gov. Pat Quinn that will green-light Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan for McCormick Place expansion that includes a new DePaul University basketball arena and a hotel. The legislation also includes provision to...

Tags: McCormick Place, Toi Hutchinson, Chicago Mayor, Illinois Governor, Matt Murphy

McCormick Place stadium bill advances

Clout Street

SPRINGFIELD --- An Illinois House panel today endorsed Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan for McCormick Place expansion that includes a new DePaul basketball arena and a hotel as part of a massive bill that also featured incentives to build a Downstate...

Tags: McCormick Place, David Harris, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Hotels, Navy Pier

Gary taking a new tack to expand, land business for its airport

For many years, Gary/Chicago International Airport has offered its services as a reliever airport to help ease flight-delay pressures at Chicago's two airports. Yet there have been few takers among airlines or passengers, despite competition in the form...

Tags: Illinois Department of Transportation, Air Transportation Delays, Michigan Avenue, Economy, Business and Finance, Will County

Charges against Jackson belie his pledge to service

Jesse Jackson Jr.'s final act as a public official was to send a Thanksgiving eve resignation letter to the speaker of the House in which he declared that "for 17 years I have given 100 percent of my time, energy and life to public service." But...

Tags: Chicago Elections, Trials, Criminals, Mayo Clinic, Jesse Jackson

Rep. Jackson calls it quits

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the ambitious political heir to a powerful Chicago family whose once promising future collapsed amid federal ethics investigations and a diagnosis of mental illness, resigned Wednesday from the South Side congressional seat he held...

Tags: Chicago Elections, Mayo Clinic, Jesse Jackson, Washington, DC, Family

Restaurants, Food & Spirits

This list is not all-inclusive. American Contemporary Allgauer's Doubletree Hotel, 5000 W. 127th St., Alsip, 708-272-4223 Open all day to accommodate hotel patrons and the public, Allgauer's is casual yet sophisticated and with recent renovations it's...

Tags: Potato Pancakes, Pork Tenderloin, Mustard, Chicago Restaurants, Sausages

High-speed chase ends near Crete-Monee Middle School

Special to the Tribune

Will County Sheriff's Police say a 25-year-old Chicago man suspected of burglarizing a Crete-area home Tuesday afternoon nearly hit a squad car during the five-mile high-speed chase prior to his arrest near Crete-Monee Middle School. Jose A. Yanez-...

Tags: Crete, University Park (Will, Illinois), Prisons, Motorvehicle Accidents, Disasters and Accidents

Jackson's Peotone Problem

WGN News

Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr troubles aren’t confined to his personal struggles.  His career-long pet project, the Peotone airport, faces problems.  Our WGNTV investigation into the Canadian company he picked to build it found it is under a...

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Jesse Jackson, Economy, Business and Finance, Mexico, Companies and Corporations

State trooper scuffles with man walking along Interstate 57

A Richton Park man who was found walking on the shoulder of I-57 in Monee was charged with scuffling an Illinois State Trooper who tried to get the man off the expressway early this morning, officials said. Mark A. Gaston, 46, was arrested after he was...

Tags: Crete, Highway Transportation, University Park (Will, Illinois), Richton Park, Monee

Rain at last -- but more heat's on way

Chicagoland hadn't had much rain so far in June, but that changed Saturday, especially if you live in the southern part of the region. It was bad enough in Kankakee County that the local office of the National Weather Service issued a flood warning after...

Tags: Kankakee, McHenry, Weather Warnings, Bradley, Weather

New local GOP chairman predicts ongoing opposition to 3rd airport