Englewood

Rocky Mountain News closing after Friday edition

2009-02-26 19:20:25

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Who's in control here -- the guests or the gizmos?

2005-05-08 00:00:00

Is your hotel room smarter than you? Mine often is. "It looks like a spaceship," said Leslee, my 9-year-old cousin, as she pointed to the coffeemaker in our Colorado cabin. Apparently we're no rocket scientists. It took three adults and one child half...

17-cent airfares? Budget carriers in Asia fuel bargains

2004-10-03 00:00:00

A dogfight is raging among budget airlines in Asia, producing eye-popping prices. Would you believe 58 cents to fly from Singapore to Thailand? That's what Tiger Airways, a new low-cost airline based in Singapore, was charging last month for seats to...

12-year-old accidentally shot on West Side, juvenile charged

2013-05-19 09:19:00

A 12-year-old boy was hospitalized after being accidentally shot while handling a gun with another boy in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday afternoon, police said Sunday morning. The boy was one of at least nine people shot during six separate...

Prosecutors: 3 teens posted taped sex assaults of girl, 12, on Facebook

2013-05-17 14:23:00

Three teenagers face sex assault charges after they raped a 12-year-old girl at gunpoint and posted a video of the December attacks on Facebook, prosecutors said. Scandale Fritz, 16, Kenneth Brown, 15, and Justin Applewhite, 16, were all ordered held in...

Chicago overnight report

2013-05-13 07:25:00

A wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • The great-nephew of a prominent Englewood community activist was fatally shot as he was driving from his great-grandmother's home Sunday afternoon in the Englewood neighborhood, according...

5 wounded in separate shootings, stabbing on Saturday

2013-05-12 09:38:00

At least four people were wounded in several shootings Saturday, including a man who walked into a police station with a gunshot wound, officials said. In the first shooting today, a 24-year-old man walked into the Englewood district police station on...

Kevin K. Pierce, 1957-2013

2013-05-09 15:02:11

Kevin Pierce was an architect whose focus on the best use of resources made him a leader in green design and sustainable development. "From early on, Kevin established himself as a real innovator and leader in green building design, not only in Chicago,...

Voice of the People, May. 10

2013-05-10 00:00:00

Union business This is in response to "My challenge to Karen Lewis" (Perspective, April 26), by Tanya Saunders-Wolffe, a counselor at Jesse Owens Community Academy on the Far South Side. Why is the Chicago Tribune newspaper a venue for proselytizing...

1 dead, 8 wounded in shootings across city

2013-04-28 08:49:00

A 36-year-old man was killed early Sunday morning and eight others wounded since Saturday afternoon in shootings from the Northwest Side to the Southeast Side. The man killed was shot about 6:05 a.m. in the 2500 block of West Division Street in the...

Oak Park teacher receives Golden Apple

2013-05-08 09:35:09

John Paulett leads almost all of his classes at Fenwick High School while the students sit in chairs formed in a circle. It's a way that provokes discussion and critical thinking for some of the tough topics he tackles in his theology classes at the...

5 wounded in separate shootings

2013-04-27 05:08:00

A 15-year-old boy released from police custody on Friday was among five people shot through early Saturday morning, according to police. The boy was shot About 2 p.m. on the 6400 block of South Claremont Avenue in the West Englewood neighborhood, said...

Standing over a table filled with seven seized guns, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, flanked by police officials, discusses the recently seized firearms during a press conference at the 7th district Englewood Police sta.

2013-05-06 00:00:00

Chris Weber, left, hugs his wife, Katherine Dube, who was surprised when Gov. Pat Quinn entered her 9th grade English classroom on Monday at TEAM Englewood Community Academy in Chicago with a Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching for her.

2013-04-29 00:00:00

Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, right, listens as teachers describe what union officials consider to be systematic neglect of Simon Guggenheim Elementary in West Englewood by Chicago Public Schools prior to putting the school on their closing list during a press conference at CTU

2013-04-15 00:00:00