Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Index: Home prices in Chicago area up in May

suntimes.com Home prices in the Chicago metropolitan area rose 1.7 percent from April, non-seasonally adjusted. But prices fell 8.1 percent from May 2010 ...

Rogers Park Woman, Sharon Walsh, dies six days after rescue from Lake Michigan near West Albion Avenue

chicagotribune.com Rescued Wednesday at about 10:45 a.m.; died Monday at 5:37 a.m. at St. Francis Hospital, Evanston ...

Winnetka seeking at least $38,000 from a resident whose contractor ruptured underground heating oil tank that spilled into Lake Michigan, closed beaches

chicagotribune.com Spill was reported at 10 a.m. on July 19 when strong smell of gasoline was noticed at Elder Lane Beach; plumbing contractor broke old tank in the homeowner's basement ...

Postal Service studying closure of 13 Chicago and suburban post offices

chicagotribune.com No office will close before December; nationwide almost 3,700 under consideration ...

Police shoot, wound 13-year-old holding BB gun on North Kedvale

chicagotribune.com/news/Police were responding to a call of "shots fired" and approached the boy carrying a pistol in the 4200 block of West Cortez Street to interview him because his description matched that of the gunman; residents say he wasn't carrying anything ...

17-year old girl shot in the back in West Chesterfield neighborhood

chicagotribune.com 17-year-old girl shot and critically injured just after midnight in the 8800 block of South Indiana Ave ...

Two farm workers electrocuted, 8 injured while removing tassels from corn in rural northwestern Illinois

chicagotribune.com Jade Garza and Hannah Kendall, both 14, of Sterling, were pronounced dead at CGH Medical Center in Sterling, 2 others injured after contacting field irrigator ...

12th heat-related death reported in Cook County

chicagotribune.com Latest victim, Helene V. Sanborn, 73, found in a back room of her home in Dixmoor -- pronounced dead Sunday at 1:00 p.m. ...