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By Bart Jansen, USA TODAY Updated 3h 19m ago The Transportation Security Administration is plagued by significant problems, a congressional report said Wednesday on the 10th anniversary of Congress creating the agency. According to the report “A Decade Later: A Call for TSA Reform,” the problems include: A bloated bureaucracy …

November 15, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — A Transportation Security Administration officer at O’Hare Airport has been fired for posting anti-Muslim, racist statements on his Facebook page. In this Intelligence Report: TSA officials in Chicago tell the I-Team that veteran officer Roy Egan has been terminated. Officer Egan was a baggage …

2:47 a.m. CST, November 16, 2011 Chicago aldermen are expected to pass Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s $6.3 billion budget plan by a wide margin today. Chicagoans who abide by city rules face higher fees for water, vehicle stickers and garage parking. And woe to city residents who run afoul of the …

By Stephanie Condon The Iowa caucuses are just seven weeks away, but Republican voters in the nation’s first presidential nominating state seem as torn as ever over the GOP field. A new Bloomberg poll of likely caucus participants shows a four-way tie in Iowa, with Rep. Ron Paul joining Mitt …

By Deanese Williams-Harris Tribune reporter 12:30 p.m. CST, November 11, 2011 Police have launched an investigation after a man was caught on video knocking out an older man at the Chicago Avenue Red Line stop while others laughed and mimicked the attack. The assault occurred in April, but the video …

By Annie Sweeney and Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune reporters 6:30 a.m. CST, November 11, 2011 Court officials acknowledged Thursday that information revealed by the Tribune appears to show that a member of the federal jury that convicted Springfield power broker William Cellini concealed two felony convictions. Attorneys for Cellini said …

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RAN SPIELMAN The Chicago Sun-Times November 7, 2011 Editor’s note: Allowing weeds to grow will cost residents between $600-to-$1,200-a-day. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has said his plan to raise taxes, fines and fees by $220 million in 2012 includes higher fines for a laundry list of offenses, but he has yet …

By Jeff Randall, Illinois, 6:00PM GMT 06 Nov 2011 America must cut taxes and reduce government spending in order to kick-start an economic recovery, Jim Skinner, the chief executive of McDonald’s, has warned. Ronald McDonald and Happy Meals ‘should be banned’, say health campaigners McDonald’s army of blue-collar customers need …

By Nancy Atkinson Universe Today updated 11/5/2011 6:48:56 PM ET The White House has responded to two petitions asking the U.S. government to acknowledge formally that aliens have visited Earth and to disclose any intentional withholding of government interactions with extraterrestrial beings. “The U.S. government has no evidence that any …

Andrew Stern and Vicki Allen, Reuters Sunday, November 6, 2011 Ron Paul was declared the winner on Saturday of a weeklong Republican presidential straw poll in Democratic President Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois. Texas Congressman Paul won 52 percent of the combined 3,649 online and in-person votes cast between …

October 28, 2011| By Matt Walberg, Peter Nickeas, Bridget Doyle and Christy Gutowski Police are questioning a man in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old girl who was found by her mother Thursday afternoon in their Indian Head Park home, authorities said. Police found signs of forced entry …

Chicago pot smokers may soon be able to light up without fear of jail time. Several Windy City councilmen said Thursday they plan to introduce a local law that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in order to cut costs and free up police to handle more serious …

Updated 10/23/11 7:23 a.m. Posted 10/23/11 5:15 a.m. CHICAGO (WLS) – For the second weekend in a row, anti-Wall Street protesters marched through the downtown streets in another attempt to take over Grant Park. And once again, police arrested those that refused to leave after the park closed. Between 1,500 …