Hoping to lure restaurants to the lakefront and bring in revenue, the Chicago Park District board is expected to sign off Wednesday on allowing alcohol sales at its two new harbors being built near Navy Pier and at 31st Street.

Share + Mar 11, 2010 12:35 pm US/Central Dog owners in the South Loop are using a new blog to take their neighbors to task for failing to pick up after their pooches.

Bruce J. Graham, the pioneering architect who designed the iconic Chicago skyscraper formerly named the Sears Tower, has died.

A Chicago man was sentenced to 35 years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty but mentally ill to the brutal stabbing and strangulation of an Arlington Heights woman in 2007.

Share + Mar 11, 2010 2:18 pm US/Central CHICAGO 1 of 1 Boston Blackie's restaurant owner Chris Giannis and manager Andy Bakopoulos, both 38, are two of the three men charged with defrauding banks out of $1.8 million in a check-kiting scheme.

Prosecutors opened their bribery case this afternoon against a Chicago developer, saying Calvin Boender paid for repair work on a Chicago alderman's home so Boender could win a zoning change and pocket $3 million.

CBOE Holdings Inc, which operates the biggest U.S. options exchange, said on Thursday it is planning to raise as much as $300 million in an initial public offering.