Daily Archives: Aug 10, 2008

The play-off action at the Chicago Pro-Am Summer Basketball Tournament is indeed red hot. The championship game will take place Sunday at Keating Hall on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology.

A proposed boycott of Chicago Public Schools was first floated last week by state Sen. Rev. James Meeks and has now picked up an endorsement by civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton.

Officials with the Internal Revenue Service in Chicago say more than 200,000 residents of Illinois haven't applied for their stimulus checks.

Chicago police say a 55-year-old woman found dead in a South Side motel may have been a victim of domestic violence.

Comedian Bernie Mac's family had expected him to fully recover from the bout of pneumonia that put him in a hospital three weeks ago, his daughter said Sunday. However, Je'niece Childress said that as time passed, she and her mother braced for the possibi

With its riveting orchestration, definitive guitar play and signature sensual baritone vocals, Isaac Hayes' theme song for the 1971 movie "Shaft" not only became one of pop music's iconic songs but also the defining work of Hayes' career. Yet the "Theme f

Police are searching for leads and a motive in the Saturday morning slaying of three west suburban teens.

Blu Monday with The Collective–While you’re out and about this evening, Aug. 11, stop by Blu 47 Restaurant and Lounge, 47th and King Dr., ‘round 7 p.m. That’s where The Collective will be holding forth once again, promising fresh n

Blu Monday with The Collective–While you’re out and about this evening, Aug. 11, stop by Blu 47 Restaurant and Lounge, 47th and King Dr., ‘round 7 p.m. That’s where The Collective will be holding forth once again, promising fresh n