The city has shelled out more than $1 million in potential NATO related security costs so far, with an untold amount of spending still to come. From riot helmets to surveillance equipment, it appears the NATO summits and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s new purchasing powers have allowed for the purchase of …

The Grayslake police chief was charged with DUI after he and his wife were involved in a crash while returning from a restaurant just over the state line in Wisconsin, authorities say. Matt McCutcheon was turning onto Route 45 in Silver Lake when he struck a car on the highway …

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Sarah Schulte April 2, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) Critics say most of the 3,100 criminal aliens and immigration fugitives arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are not a serious threat to society. For six days, ICE agents swept through the states looking for criminal aliens and repeat immigration law violators …

CITY OF CHICAGO DEPARTMENT OF POLICE RULES AND REGULATIONS FIREARMS- CHAPTER 8-20 These rules shall be effective on July 12, 2010. As amended February 21,2012 The Superintendent, pursuant to Chapter 8-20 of the Municipal Code of Chicago, hereby promulgates the following the Rules and Regulations. Link

Anthony Gucciardi Infowars.com Monday, April 2, 2012 Producers of toxic BPA are now boasting $8 billion in sales for 2012 thanks to the FDA rejecting a potential ban on the cancer-linked chemical on March 30th. According to GlobalData, manufacturers will produce 4.7 million metric tons of BPA this year to …

At first blush, a pension bill adopted by the General Assembly in 2007 seemed to have a laudable goal: extending retirement benefits to local police force employees’ widows after they remarried. But buried within the legislation was something considerably less altruistic: a provision that enabled a member of one of …

BY ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter March 30, 2012 2:38AM Talks on a dramatic overhaul of the way Chicago public school teachers are evaluated ended Thursday with district officials forging forward without teacher union approval on a plan that would tie the ratings of thousands of teachers in part to student …