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Ethel Oliver is proud to follow in her late father's footsteps by insisting that the children in her life get the best education they can.

Christopher Parish served eight years in prison on a debt to society that, it turns out, he didn't owe.

Here are the offers from Chicago's daily deals sites for Friday, July 30. Some are available for more than a day; check the individual sites for details and restrictions.

Chicago officials say the city's budget shortfall will be at least $654 million because of weak tax revenue.

Wilmette police investigators, who believe that hundreds of fake IDs have been sold from a storefront on Chicago's Northwest Side for a number of years to minors from the city and north suburbs, arrested a 26-year-old man for manufacturing and delivering dozens of those fake IDs.

People walking through Chicago's Daley Plaza are slowing their pace to look at a new fixture - a line of gray bikes perched in matching gray stands.

CHICAGO a * The sun is shining on Chicago and the weather is warm and comfortable.

Chicago police have released a description of a suspect wanted for questioning in the murder of off-duty Chicago Police Officer Michael Bailey.

Think of the British Petroleum gusher at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, that's what Chicagoans can expect now that Walmart and Chicago Walmart politicians have busted the cap.

Arguing that 'oil is worse than Asian Carp,' an indignant Mayor Daley on Thursday demanded that Michigan's attorney general launch a criminal investigation into an oil spill that dumped a million gallons of oil into a waterway leading to Lake Michigan.

Mayor Richard M. Daley says the seven Chicago City Colleges will lay off 225 non-teaching employees, eliminate 86 unfilled jobs and cut administrative credit card use and travel.

Chicago institution serving pizza and other Italian standards. Our Review We've eaten at Connie's for over 25 years, starting when it was a lot smaller.

At the time, I fancied myself Chicago's top authority on the subject, but the city's ever-shifting nocturnal scene - and a sudden glut of listings online - rendered my book irrelevant almost immediately.

From the newswire: "Puerto Rican political prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres, who was imprisoned three decades ago for his work in support of Puerto Rican independence, was paroled from federal prison in Pekin, Illinois on Monday, July 26, and returned briefly to Chicago to a hero's welcome before his planned move to permanently relocate to Puerto ...

HEY, DALEY IS A BIG FAT STINKING CROOK THAT SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED BY THE DPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

Grains futures advanced Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for September delivery jumped 12 cents to $6.275 a bushel, while September corn added 3 cents to $3.7925 a bushel and oats for September delivery rose 4.5 cents to $2.615 a bushel.

On July, 31 the Gay Games VIII Cologne 2010 will start with a spectacular opening ceremony - and center.tv will broadcast it live.

One of the city's biggest and best book sales runs today through Sunday . The Newberry Library 's 26th-annual Book Fair offers over 120,000+ donated books divided into 70 categories ranging from fiction to childrens' books to puzzles and arcana, much of which goes for $2. Expect crowds in the independent library's beautifully strange romanesque ...

President Obama will tour Chicago's South Side Ford plant next month as part of his previously announced visit to the area.

Demolition of a building near Skinner Park has reignited hopes that additional room for dogs to romp could be in the offing for this part of the West Loop, where planning for the neighborhood's canines has often been laced with disagreement.