March in Review: Journalists talk top stories

Mar. 31, 2011
March can be a tricky month in Chicago. It may officially be spring, but that doesn't mean the city won't see more snow. And there were plenty of other comings and goings this month. Police Superintendent Jody Weis announced he was leaving the Chicago Police Department.

6th Ward candidates debate before runoff

Mar. 31, 2011
On Tuesday, April 5, Chicago will hold a runoff election. Voters in 14 wards will decide who will represent them in City Council. The 6th Ward on Chicago's South Side is one of those wards.

Chicago ordinance cracks down on smell of horse urine

Mar. 31, 2011
A new Chicago ordinance requires carriage drivers to clean up the urine horses leave behind.You may never guess it, but cleaning up after horses has been an issue for decades in Chicago's City Council.

Thursday brings early voting deadline, or does it?

Mar. 31, 2011
Early voting in Illinois officially ends Thursday ahead of the local elections next week. But there is a way around this deadline.  

Suburban Cook voters to pick 19 mayors

Mar. 31, 2011
Next week voters will elect 19 mayors or village presidents in suburban Cook County. Early voting has been especially high for the race in south suburban Chicago Heights.

Former Indiana library director spend

Mar. 31, 2011
The former director of a small Northwest Indiana city’s library system can at least now pay for gas, food a

Hammond GOP mayoral hopeful out

Mar. 31, 2011
A Lake County, Indiana judge says George Janiec is ineligibl

Stone testifies about shadowy PAC

Mar. 30, 2011
50th Ward Alderman Bernard Stone testified under oath Wednesday that he had no idea his reelection campaign was paying an outside committee to attack his opponent.

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