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Sprint announces first cities to get 4G LTE

2012-01-07 00:00:00

<![CDATA[Sprint announces first cities to get 4G LTE]]>

Sprint announces first 4G LTE cities for mid-2012 -- no L.A. yet

2012-01-06 16:36:29

<![CDATA[Sprint announces first 4G LTE cities for mid-2012 -- no L.A. yet]]>

Pop & Hiss premiere: TiRon gets down with 'Band on the Run' in new video

2010-10-11 16:34:48

<![CDATA[Pop & Hiss premiere: TiRon gets down with 'Band on the Run' in new video]]>

Barbra Streisand furnishes her design taste

2009-10-10 00:00:00

Barbra Streisand, a well-educated student of antiques and vintage decorative arts, has finally declared a major: "Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love," she says. Think of it as a...

Hartford Metro Not Sharing In House Price Gains Early In '13

2013-05-09 13:28:22

The median sale price of previously-owned single-family houses in the Hartford metro area didn't register the gains seen nationwide in the first three months of this year, according to a new report Thursday. The Hartford metro area's median sale price...

Tribune sued by former Countryside police chief

2013-05-03 18:41:00

Momence police Chief Timothy Swanson, formerly the police chief in the suburb of Countryside, filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Tribune on Friday in response to articles about a police helicopter program he spearheaded. Swanson, of Bourbonnais, is...

NAACP chapter leaders from across state discuss issues in Decatur

2013-04-28 05:24:04

A networking meeting Saturday of presidents of about a dozen Illinois branches of the NAACP was deemed valuable by the long-serving and newly elected alike. Jeanelle Norman is both, as former president of the Decatur branch who returned to office last...

Teen's injuries lead to warnings about potato guns

2013-04-27 00:00:00

Aaron Williams was 15 when his friend invited him over to try out a new Christmas present — a potato gun constructed by hand from plastic pipe with hair spray as its propellent. Aaron said it was thrilling to watch as other teenagers balanced...

Plains join 30 music acts at Fort Lauderdale's inaugural Block x Blog festival

2013-04-19 00:00:00

When Plains' frontman Michael McGinnis is working, he's holed up in the recording pit of Honor Roll Music, a studio-warehouse in Little Haiti. His 6-foot-3 frame is hunched over three side-by-side monitors, his eyes staring at the screen's mixing software...

Plainfield trustees approve money for ash borer battle

2013-04-16 13:17:00

The Plainfield Village Board voted Monday to continue the town's battle against the insidious emerald ash borer, a hungry little insect that is laying waste to the municipality's trees. The board voted unanimously to allocate up to $60,000 for the...

Late-winter snowstorm slams Central Illinois, not Chicago

2013-03-24 19:34:00

Chicago appears to have dodged the worst of an early-spring snow system that is dumping six to 10 inches on Central Illinois, according to the National Weather Service. But according to State Police Sunday night, motorists traveling in Kankakee,...

Horse neglect rampant in Illinois, advocates say

2013-03-22 01:05:47

CHICAGO - The four horses hadn't been visited in weeks. There was no water in their buckets, no hay in the stall. All of the animals looked dangerously thin. The horses' caregiver apparently had stopped showing up. So even though the horses were not...

Ruth Steinhagen is taken away in a police paddy wagon after shooting Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus in 1949. Steinhagen, 19, had developed an obsession for Waitkus. She checked into the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago and had a note sent to Waitkus' room saying she had to see him.

2013-03-16 14:00:21

Former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson, friend to convicted former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, stands outside the Ryan home in Kankakee, Ill. after Ryan was sent home from a Chicago half-way house.

2013-01-30 00:00:00

The son of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, Homer Ryan, makes his way out the back door of the Ryan home in Kankakee, Ill., to his car on the day his father was sent home from a Chicago half-way house.

2013-01-30 00:00:00