Explaining a tough choice
Obama to offer details on how presidential library site was picked
DATE: Aug 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Jason Keyser
Lucas scraps plan to build museum after lawsuit
CHICAGO – “Star Wars” creator George Lucas announced Friday that he has abandoned plans to build his art museum in Chicago, blaming delays over a lawsuit from a parks group opposed to develo...
DATE: Jun 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Fire at air traffic center halts flights across U.S.
CHICAGO – All flights in and out of Chicago’s two airports were halted Friday after a fire at a suburban air traffic control center that authorities said was deliberately set by a contract e...
DATE: Sep 26, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Corporal punishment is widespread, but declining
CHICAGO – Allegations that Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson injured one of his sons by spanking him with a tree branch are reviving a debate about corporal punishment in a coun...
DATE: Sep 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family
Video-game athletes can earn scholarship
No kidding, university offers money to players of League of Legends
DATE: Jun 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Education
Hagel talks of tough defense choices after war
CHICAGO – U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned Tuesday of painful trade-offs as the nation’s military pivots from a 13-year war footing and comes under enormous budgetary constraints, s...
DATE: May 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Deep freeze strands rail, air travelers nationwide
CHICAGO – The Amtrak train slowed to a crawl as it hammered through snowdrifts in an empty stretch of Illinois countryside, delivering thuds and jolts to passengers, until it lurched into a ...
DATE: Jan 7, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
U.S. travelers brace for foul, wet weather
CHICAGO – A storm with a 2,000-mile footprint threatened to frustrate Christmas travelers from Texas to Nova Scotia with a little of everything Mother Nature has to offer, from freezing rain...
DATE: Dec 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Height of 1 World Trade Center debated in Chicago
CHICAGO – Rising from the ashes of Sept. 11, the new World Trade Center tower has punched above the New York skyline to reach its powerfully symbolic height of 1,776 feet and become the tall...
DATE: Nov 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
Sharing the water
Kayaks vie with barges for slice of urban rivers
DATE: Aug 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade gave abortion opponents a target
CHICAGO – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she supports a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, but feels her predecessors’ landmark Roe v. Wade ruling 40 years ago...
DATE: May 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
