By: Evan F. Moore - August 19, 2015 11:43 a.m.
Last week, Ill. Gov. Bruce Rauner used his executive powers to veto a pair of bills that together would have, decriminalized and increased fines for individuals caught by law enforcement with small amounts of marijuana and extended the state’s medical cannabis pilot program.
By: Norman Parish - August 19, 2015 11:33 a.m.
A Pierce model fire truck, named in memory of fallen Chicago Firefighter Sidney Brown, has logged about 37,000 miles since arriving to a South Side fire station a dozen years ago.
By: Norman Parish - August 19, 2015 11:26 a.m.
When Kwame Raoul was a Ill. state prosecutor, he recalls getting patted down by police officers as he exited his car in an area south of downtown Chicago on Financial Street.
Paulette Brown, a labor and employment law partner and co-chair of the firmwide Diversity and Inclusion Committee at Locke Lord LLP in Morristown, N.J., took office last week as president of the American Bar Association at the conclusion of the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. She is the first woman of color to become president of the 136-year-old organization and will serve as president until the close of the ABA Annual Meeting in August 2016.
Rapper 50 Cent, who filed for personal bankruptcy last month, is trying to lease his Connecticut home valued at nearly $8.3 million.
NBC has found the young woman who will ease on down the yellow brick road.
The network last week unveiled newcomer Shanice Williams from New Jersey as its Dorothy for the Dec. 3 live production of “The Wiz Live!”
Ricardo Tisci revealed Fashion’s newest gang on his instagram account earlier this week as he shared the upcoming Vogue Japan August 2015 cover. The highly anticipated issue entitled “Fashion Gang” has a lineup worthy of a lifetime of cover stories in itself. The bonafide A-list cast includes Riccardo Tisci, Kendall Jenner, Kanye West, Jessica Chastain, Joan Smalls, Mica Arganaraz, Jamie Bochert and Akimoto Kozue completely outfitted from head to toe (face jewels included) in Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci.
How do you get a bunch of pint-size models to halt and turn at the end of a fashion runway?
By: Norman Parish - August 12, 2015 4:12 p.m.
Larome Levy, an Austin neighborhood resident, is looking forward to college.
But first, he must pay $500 in fees he owes to Steinmetz High School.
The 18-year-old senior is now able to pay off the debt because of his new clerk job at Loretto Hospital, 645 S. Central Ave., Chicago.
By: Norman Parish - August 12, 2015 3:56 p.m.
Country Club Hills outdoor amphitheater, closed for nearly two years, could be back in business next summer with more seats, city officials said.
The Country Club Hills Council agreed Monday night to use about $1.7 million in tax increment financing (TIF) money to more than triple fixed seating at the amphitheater to about 2,100. The south suburban, Ill. venue currently has about 640 such seats.
By: Norman Parish - August 12, 2015 3:52 p.m.
A 22-year-old man was charged with punching Ald. David Moore as the Chicago official tried to disband alleged prostitutes on a South Side street, officials said.
By: Norman Parish - August 12, 2015 1:58 p.m.
On the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed African American teen killed in Ferguson, Mo. after a controversial run in with a white police officer, a mother of another dead teen asked Chicagoans to save their children from gun violence.
By: Norman Parish - August 12, 2015 1:53 p.m.
Cook County Commissioner, Richard Boykin, is taking steps to enter Illinois’ hotly contested U.S. Senate race.
By: Larissa M. Tyler - August 12, 2015 1:37 p.m.
Should a medical marijuana dispensary be allowed to open and operate on Chicago’s south side?
Members of the Chatham Business Association (CBA) and other concerned citizens chimed in on the controversial matter during the organization’s monthly meeting on Tuesday at the QBG Foundation/Chicago Citizen Newspaper headquarters building, 806 E. 78th St, Chicago.
A multi-product collection from MAC Cosmetics inspired by the late Latin icon Selena Quintanilla is planned for next year, the company said last Thursday.
Mariah Carey is making her directorial debut on the Hallmark Channel.
Carey will direct and co-star in "Mariah Carey's Christmas Project," the network announced last week. Production will begin in the fall. The scripted film is slated to air in December as part of its annual "Countdown to Christmas" programming.
Lawyers for Bill Cosby argue in a new court filing his admission he used quaaludes in the 1970s doesn’t mean he drugged and sexually assaulted women.
The push for a higher minimum wage gained momentum on both sides of the country last month, with New York embracing an eventual $15 an hour for the state’s 200,000 fast-food workers and the huge University of California system announcing the same raise for its employees.
By: Norman Parish - August 5, 2015 4:31 p.m.
A Chicago man, exonerated after serving 17 years in prison, was killed during an alleged “bad” drug deal, officials said.
Alprentiss Nash, 40, was fatally shot in the chest when he allegedly attempted to rob another man last week, Chicago Police said.
Nash and Paul Vukadinovic, 30, allegedly exchanged gunshots July 28th in the 400 block of South Paulina Street, police said.
Nash was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.
The Cook County Board of Review, the highest volume assessment appeals board in the country, launched its state of the art Digital Appeals Processing System (DAPS) for the 2015 property assessment appeals session. The Digital Appeals Processing System will transform the paper-based Board appeals process into a digital workflow that will make filing appeals easier for taxpayers and will create a more transparent, efficient, and thorough process, which will save Cook County residents thousands of dollars.
