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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.

Share + Comments Mar 9, 2010 11:09 am US/Central 1 of 1 Mayor Richard M. Daley is angry with Gov.

Police are searching for a suspect after a 13-year-old girl was grabbed by a man while walking to school this morning in the 2700 block of North Central Park Avenue.

Every Chicago Police Department squad car will soon be equipped with a Taser. That announcement Wednesday came as top police officials said they need the option of using Tasers to subdue uncooperative suspects as an alternative to their guns and batons.

Chicago Police have released the name and photo of the man they are believe commited a series of sexual assaults on the Southwest Side in the past week.

One person was killed and a 9-year-old was ejected in a crash Tuesday night on Interstate 57 on the Far South Side, State Police said.

A man rescued Tuesday night from "Bubbly Creek" after jumping into the South Side waters to avoid police has died.

Authorities say a man believed to have been in his early 20s died after he jumped into Chicago's once-notorious Bubbly Creek to elude police.

It was an intense but short-lived crime run for a Woodridge man suspected in six Chicago area bank robberies over the course of five weeks.

Violent Crime. CPD o/s with a robbery victim. BM perps fled in a Hummer. CPD has vehicle stopped.

The grandson of a former Cook County commissioner was found fatally shot in a South Side alley over the weekend.

A Northbrook woman was charged Saturday with prostitution after allegedly offering to perform a sex act on an undercover police officer at a Pulaski Park neighborhood massage parlor.

Mayor Daley accused Gov. Quinn today of a political double-cross regarding the governor's proposal to cut $300 million from the share of state income tax revenues earmarked for local government.

The Chicago Police Department shows off confiscated guns Chicago Mayor Richard Daley wants some new gun restrictions across the State of Illinois.

Champaign- It's called roll back the rate hike campaign as a coalition bands together to fight a proposed rate hike by Ameren.

Share + Mar 8, 2010 3:51 pm US/Central A south suburban man accused of punching an emergency room doctor on the South Side on Sunday -- knocking the doctor's tooth loose and causing him to fall -- was ordered held on $250,000 bond Monday.

A $133-million federal stimulus project to build a railroad "flyover" at the Metra, Amtrak and freight tracks in Englewood will untie a knot in the nation's rail system and make way for high-speed rail, government and rail officials said Friday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. "The single biggest source of delays in the Midwest is right here at ...

Share + Mar 8, 2010 5:03 am US/Central Eleven people were injured -- one critically -- when two vans crashed in the Englewood neighborhood.

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Share + Mar 7, 2010 2:36 pm US/Central Bond was denied Sunday for a west suburban Carol Stream man charged in the November 2009 murder of a motorist in the South Side Grand Boulevard neighborhood.