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Pella case includes consumers who have not suffered any financial damages but may in the future Ameet Sachdev Chicago Law May 10, 2011 Class-action lawsuits face stiff head winds in courts and the court of public opinion. But that doesn’t stop class-action lawyers and judges from finding creative ways to …

Jake Malooley navigates the complex process of getting a handgun in Chicago. via How I bought my gun in Chicago – Arts + Culture – Time Out Chicago.

Bin Laden death: Chicago police, security agencies step up vigilance May 02, 2011 By Jeremy Gorner, Jon Hilkevitch and Becky Schlikerman, Tribune reporterNuccio DiNuzzo, Chicago Tribune Guarding against reprisals in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, Chicago0area security personnel stepped up their vigilance Monday at high-profile spots: the Daley …

Chicago, Meet Your New City Council The Reader’s guide to the hacks, geeks, lawyers, and other assorted characters who will serve as aldermen under Mayor Emanuel By Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky Four years ago we looked to the incoming Chicago City Council with great hope and expectation—at long last, …

By Lynn Sweet on April 29, 2011 8:38 AM WASHINGTON — A factor in President Obama’s decision to address the “birther” question — and release his “long form” birth certificate — came when ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos asked him about it in an April 14 interview where Obama wanted …

First, MS-13 kingpins made their way into major U.S. cities. Today, Newsweek reports that 20,000 illegal alien drug dealers operate in 44 states. They engage thousands of American teens as sellers on our streets. Many turn to a life of crime because they can make $1,000.00 a week selling drugs …

Bill Conroy Narcosphere April 27, 2011 A high-level player with one of the most notorious narco-trafficking organizations in Mexico, the Sinaloa “cartel,” claims that he has been working with the U.S. government for years, according to pleadings filed recently in federal court in Chicago. That player, Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, …

Casey Chan The Adler Planetarium just renovated the Grainger Sky Theater with a big honking screen. The display will mimic being in space with a 8,000 by 8,000 pixel screen that’s supposed to deliver “the largest single seamless digital image in the world”. For reference, typical movie screens ‘only’ spit …

BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel was urged Tuesday to rein in police spying after the city agreed to pay and publicly absolve an international peace and justice organization investigated in the run-up to a 2002 business conference in Chicago. The Quaker-based American Friends Service Committee …

Heroin abuse in Chicago’s suburbs is reaching epidemic proportions, and the area’s Eisenhower Expressway has become known as the “Heroin Highway” for all the smack that flows through it.